Example sentences of "[vb past] i [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Within four minutes he asked me out to dinner . |
| 2 | We chatted so much on that first date , and then Denise asked me out to dinner the next night . |
| 3 | ‘ Like I said , ’ he explained , ‘ after those last months in Sweden , the Ruskis made me up to Captain . |
| 4 | Afterwards ( another former Lancaster student ) invited me home to tea , and in the evening , and I were entertained at home by |
| 5 | ( 19 ) The whisky helped me not to stagger under the blow . |
| 6 | Then I got back my artillery , and the subdued Jackson drove me back to town . |
| 7 | The old lady made me jump when she told me not to stare but to sit down and not be nervous . |
| 8 | ‘ He really turned me on to geography . |
| 9 | I did n't begin to feel again until anger kissed me back to life at the inquest . |
| 10 | Mrs Fraser once packed me off to bed as I was groggy with summer flu , and the four lads with me were sent off to do Ben Tee on their own — a perfect challenge for their particular hill experience at the time . |
| 11 | First she was terrified there was a burglar , then when she 'd searched the house from top to bottom she got mad and shoved me back to bed . |
| 12 | Connors brought me up to date on his opinion of the guys in the car as I rolled the heap round the first intersection . |
| 13 | ‘ Alcohol did me the greatest favour , which is that it brought me down to earth . |
| 14 | ‘ It was because you brought me back to life . |
| 15 | Are you regretting that you ever brought me back to life , Pygmalion ? |
| 16 | The touch of the hard floor brought me back to reality . |
| 17 | Clifford-like with what I was saying , they quickly brought me back to reality . ’ |
| 18 | Instinct alone brought me back to alertness , a warning pulse from the innermost guardian of my being . |
| 19 | Kāli 's voice brought me back to earth . |
| 20 | Some of the people I interviewed became informants , who kept me up to date on those phases of West End life with which they were familiar . |
| 21 | That 's exactly what happened to me , three years ago , when the largest company in the United Kingdom , British Petroleum , took me on to run a new venture . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd been kicked by a horse and lost two front teeth and he took me out to lunch and gave me asparagus . |
| 23 | and him , my mother was away and erm I was with him and we went out he took me out to lunch and he took me shopping and stu well I mean he took , but he was really really , you know how your father always dotes on you if it 's just you and him ? |
| 24 | He brought me flowers , took me out to dinner and the theatre , and was generally attentive to me , as if I were his mistress and not an old married woman . |
| 25 | ‘ After the match , he took me out to dinner . ’ |
| 26 | They took me out to dinner too — lunch they called it . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Yeah she sent me up to bed . |
| 30 | That finally jolted me back to reality and sanity . ’ |