Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack and two others who had witnessed the performance , found me and piloted me back to the warmth and safety of the ski-cabin . |
| 2 | Next he led the spinnaker sheets aft to the cockpit and made them fast to the stern cleats with plenty of slack . |
| 3 | She had brought things to make their evening meal and she emptied them on to the work-counter : wine , cheese , spinach , onions , bread , the pink-white tines of a rack of lamb , as if all the promise of their future lay in the guarantee of such ordinariness being possible . |
| 4 | The captain of the guard led them on to the scaffold , a scrawny-faced clerk gabbled out the sentence of the court . |
| 5 | They were ready now , and he led them back to the Saloon . |
| 6 | She then rejoined the others outside , and the Doctor led them back to the TARDIS . |
| 7 | They had tried twice before , and on each occasion they had been pursued relentlessly through the forests by hostile Moi tribesmen who had stripped them naked , lashed their hands behind them and led them back to the plantation roped together at the neck with twisted creepers . |
| 8 | Gaveston led them back to the heart of the palace whence a servitor took them up to a chamber high in the building . |
| 9 | In disgust the guide led them back to the car park , where they overtipped to avoid a scene and got away without trouble . |
| 10 | He then led them back to the safety of the Allied trenches . |
| 11 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
| 12 | The porter took care of their horses and Lady Amelia , walking like a ghost before them , led them across to the guest house . |
| 13 | I flung them on to the bed where she should have been , but was n't . |
| 14 | She pinned them bravely to the shoulder of her dress , touched the blooms lightly with her fingers and said to the room at large , |
| 15 | He led me through to the next room , and up against the wall there lay a stack of some ten to fifteen canvases . |
| 16 | But her eyes were fail of pain as she led me through to the lounge . |
| 17 | Now , " he said , placing a creaky arm across my shoulders as he led me through to the parlour , " I want you to meet Vron . " |
| 18 | When she was satisfied with the state of the blaze Laura led me round to the side of the kiln , removed the bung and gestured for me to look in . |
| 19 | He led me back to the dining hall , vast and empty save for my two friends . |
| 20 | Once he had gone , Benjamin led me back to the stable . |
| 21 | Benjamin rose and , slipping his arm through mine , led me back to the garden , teasing me into a good mood as he explained how he had found Waldegrave drunk as a lord and insensible as a rock in a corner of his opulent chapel . |
| 22 | Some involved navigation got me across to the door and into the other room . |
| 23 | Solidarity with Southern nationalists is still a major Northern nationalist perception , despite the fact that they view their Southern compatriots at best with indifference and at worst as traitors who sold them out to the loyalists . |
| 24 | The hotel staff felt sorry for the Garda and asked them round to the back door , where they handed out tots of whiskey . |
| 25 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 26 | The Crown claim Butler had collected information about his movement in the town and passed them on to the IRA . |
| 27 | Spokeswoman Jane McLean said yesterday : ‘ After that we stopped recording the calls and passed them on to the JobCentre at Holywell , which is handling the recruitment . ’ |
| 28 | Spokeswoman Jane McLean said yesterday : ‘ After that we stopped recording the calls and passed them on to the JobCentre at Holywell which is handling the recruitment . ’ |
| 29 | Having heard the account of her recapture and the sadistic reprisal inflicted on Pam , they were doubly eager to have another go at the sect heavies , and had recruited a further six of their own mates and invited them along to the party . |
| 30 | The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen . |