Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholson led them through to another solid steel gate . |
| 2 | But even among the backward and traditional , two kinds of country people were the major pillars of the ancient ways — the old and the women , whose ‘ old wives ’ tales ' passed them on to new generations , and occasionally , for the benefit of city men , to collectors of folklore and folksong . |
| 3 | He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon . |
| 4 | We just passed them out to crazy people and artistes and people who were always on the scene in New York . |
| 5 | Molly moved them carefully to one end of the bar before she hung up Hugh 's clothes and her summer dresses . |
| 6 | Griffith now heated his rods in the middle and drew them down to thinner and thinner fibres which after cooling he also broke in tension . |
| 7 | Hands gripped her shoulders and moved her gently to one side . |
| 8 | One voice followed another , and she had almost stopped listening altogether when a sudden difference jerked her back to avid attention . |
| 9 | The arrival of the waiter with their fritters jerked her back to full awareness of her surroundings . |
| 10 | And I went through them and I I narrowed it down to three things now . |
| 11 | and I moved it over to that corner there , where nothing else grows |
| 12 | The make you , sort of what were doing when making another member of staff , so there 's a going on full time having free coffee like Dinda did , much change it to be , but I mean it 's just there for free , all day every day , she 's now ten penny piece in , they get a card , get a little pin pricked on , every time they used it up to twenty they get twenty cups of coffee on its card |
| 13 | I had heard the bell toll … the wave of ecstasy which drove me on to this shore had pressed me into a dark , dull interior . |
| 14 | As his chauffeur drove him back to Blue Ash Farm in the Lincoln , he decided it was love which gave her that special glow , that sparkle , that vivacity which drew the young men round her like flies . |
| 15 | He eventually whittled it down to eighteen thousand and his successors have since reduced the number even more dramatically . |
| 16 | The next day he even drove us out to some local farms in his Land Rover to assess their suitability . |
| 17 | No I had a Group Manager who actually introduced me to this , I erm , I work out with him , but , he brought a , actually what turned me on to this was the fact that erm , where he is , he 's thirty six now , and erm , he 's got no mortgages , he 's got a , he paid eleven thousand pounds for a , a Kawasaki Z Z eleven hundred R super bike , worth that is |
| 18 | His employer paid him up to that point . |
| 19 | He reached for the engine control and turned it up to full power . |
| 20 | ‘ We drummed it in to all three of our children not to go off with strangers and Johanna was sensible enough to listen , ’ said Robert . |
| 21 | He got a key to the blanket store and rented it out to randy nurses and hungry walking-wounded , many of whom he had introduced in the first place . |
| 22 | ‘ I had a tough childhood and it spurred me on to great heights . ’ |
| 23 | Today we meet young comedienne Lois Waters and her dad Denny , and tomorrow Chris Boardman talks about the man who spurred him on to Olympic fame . |
| 24 | It had to be Travis , and that spurred her on to reckless speed , putting too much weight on her much tried ankle , until it could only do one thing — collapse under her . |
| 25 | Wave after wave of a pleasure bordering on exaltation raised her gently to some peak , ebbed a little , then carried her up again , more fiercely than before . |
| 26 | I followed her up to one of the other floors and caught her by the elbow . |
| 27 | Erm and I sli I yo pulled me up to one corner and I know it 's really nasty |
| 28 | He clued me in to some strategy . |
| 29 | These were being lowered to the roof-top , where Repo Men guided them on to powered sleds and steered them into the lift . |
| 30 | Rapt , ecstatic , she willed me on to ever-greater feats of ardour . |