Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards ( another former Lancaster student ) invited me home to tea , and in the evening , and I were entertained at home by |
| 2 | ‘ That 's true enough , ’ said Meredith and , unable to apologise directly for his outburst at rehearsal , invited him instead to dinner that evening at the Commercial Hotel . |
| 3 | We then drove them closer to town , where one of our men was readying the piles of clothes . |
| 4 | Tilda 's respect for her sister , whom she had never seen before in the possession of so much money , reduced her almost to silence ; in a hoarse whisper she asked whether they were going to get the records straight away . |
| 5 | Though he could n't see her , the darkness was a black canvas , and he painted her there to perfection , her beauty gazing down on him . |
| 6 | Inquiry ‘ The doctor looked at the bottle and rushed him straight to hospital . ’ |
| 7 | On their way to the magistrates they were stopped by Richard Baxter 's doctor who immediately ordered him home to bed . |
| 8 | The coach trundled briskly past , browning everyone with dust ; the deerhounds checked and growled thunderously at the town dogs until James Flemyng called them loudly to heel . |
| 9 | His beautiful and adored mother quickly appeared from the sitting-room and hugged him nearly to death on the doorstep . |
| 10 | Ruth thought her aunt would have sat up all night to prolong the time with them , but her uncle — who had tried bravely all day to behave as though nothing untoward was happening — put his arms around his wife 's shoulders and led her away to bed . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's funny you should say that , ’ said Miss Mack 's Solicitor , from a resumed recumbent position , rather dreading his appearance as No. 11 in boots too small for him , ‘ because an uncle by marriage of mine took me once to tea with some cousin of his who had been a county cricketer and this county chap said middle and leg was best because it gave you room to cut . ’ |
| 12 | He took me often to organ recitals ( Goss Custard and Thalben Ball ) and to the Proms , where he sat in the balcony over the orchestra cupping his good ear in his hand . |
| 13 | They , too , had taken to helping in the hospital and Miriam could read on their pale , shocked faces some of the terrible sights they had seen ; after a little while she sent them away to bed . |
| 14 | So sex sent you straight to hell ! |
| 15 | The lifeboat was still standing by , and a large swell came around the casualty 's stern and rolled her heavily to starboard . |
| 16 | The fifth took him straight to hospital . |
| 17 | That night on the houseboat , Kattina took her straight to bed . |
| 18 | That 's why you took the boy away from me … sent him away to sea . ’ |
| 19 | Where once she had dithered over choosing a suit for a new day at school , now imminence brought her fast to action — at least in the short term . |
| 20 | I gave chase , passed him and brought us home to victory . |
| 21 | ‘ And … and she grabbed the rope round the mule 's neck and … and led it away to safety , leaving her husband lying in the road . |
| 22 | They , they gave you enough to sort of live on . |
| 23 | The inspection of slaughterhouses which was one of his duties converted him permanently to vegetarianism . |
| 24 | Blanche drove on and three hours later she was safe in Dornaway Castle , where she seemed so shaken that they put her straight to bed . |
| 25 | said Miss Polly put her straight to bed |
| 26 | he said Miss Polly put her straight to bed , he knocked on the door with a rat a tat tat you do it like that |
| 27 | I wan na do all of them on me own so he phoned for the doctor to be quick , quick , quick , said Miss Polly put her straight to bed he wrote on a paper for a pill , pill , pill |
| 28 | ‘ We did it just to book all the bands we knew , ’ recalls Barbara Pendleton at her office in the Festival 's West London HQ . |
| 29 | We left them there to season , we did n't bother . |
| 30 | Mabel was too cold to move so he had to lift her out and carried her home to Mum . |