Example sentences of "[vb past] i [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 | He led me through to the next room , and up against the wall there lay a stack of some ten to fifteen canvases . |
| 3 | But her eyes were fail of pain as she led me through to the lounge . |
| 4 | Now , " he said , placing a creaky arm across my shoulders as he led me through to the parlour , " I want you to meet Vron . " |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He led me back to the dining hall , vast and empty save for my two friends . |
| 7 | Once he had gone , Benjamin led me back to the stable . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Some involved navigation got me across to the door and into the other room . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | His master closed his book and invited me politely to the table . |
| 12 | I looked up the name of my shop steward — Chris Pike — in a recent union bulletin , wrote to him for further information and he invited me up to the Branch Office . |
| 13 | George invited me out to the cinema that night , and so it began . |
| 14 | Once it was home , the stalwart Alan helped me up to the loft with it , where it awaits my occupation in due course . |
| 15 | As he lived in the city , Mr Coary drove me up to the Noones ’ for my bag and then took me all the way back to O'Brien 's Hotel in Dublin , where I had stayed long before . |
| 16 | He asked if I was in trouble and drove me back to the car park , where he produced a tow-rope . |
| 17 | They drove me back to the Ministry , where I was questioned by an officer I 'd never seen before , a colonel . |
| 18 | The paramedics eventually drove me uptown to the scene of the accident . |
| 19 | I remember she crouched down and lifted me on to the table . |
| 20 | A Corporal appeared and beckoned me through to the kitchen ; he was taller and thinner than the other one and his arms were covered with rough tattoos executed in Indian ink ; on his right forearm were the words , ( My courage for my father , my heart for my mother , my prick for a whore ) . |
| 21 | He followed me round to the jetty where Laura 's clothes were scattered across the lawn . |
| 22 | Pam and Kath followed me back to the cottage , where we sat in front of a smoking log fire and gossiped and giggled till bed-time . |
| 23 | Instead of getting someone to calm me down and talk to me , a whole bunch of them came and jumped on me and rushed me down to the block and left me there . |
| 24 | In fact , they whisked me off to the Nanking Workers ' Hospital , where I stayed in ‘ solitary confinement ’ until this afternoon . |
| 25 | He pulled me over to the door . |
| 26 | After tea , he called me closer to the fire , while Adèle played with Mrs Fairfax . |
| 27 | Mr Rochester called me closer to the fire . |
| 28 | He guided me on to the terrace to share a bottle of one of his finest vintages . |
| 29 | That damn' word brought me back to the harsh reality of my situation : not just the discovery of a traitor or bringing a murderer to book but vengeance for Agnes and , of course , the Herculean task which the Great Killer had assigned me ! |
| 30 | Now relaxed and talkative , he saw me back to the waiting taxi and told me of his ambitions as a Gaelic football player . |