Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus we 've never considered it right to hand out cheques on a mere whim , deciding to sponsor a project , or support a charity because it happened to be the flavour of the month , or because a director had some some particular keen interest in it . |
| 2 | She had given up work to have the children and she 'd seen them through to school age , when she 'd gone out and found herself another job . |
| 3 | Her joking tone matched his almost to perfection . |
| 4 | The first time he 'd seen her — all those years ago — he 'd felt something close to panic . |
| 5 | We know he will enjoy watching the sports programmes despite the fact that Bristol Rovers football team have not quite made it on to Sky TV yet ! is well know for being a keen supporter of Bristol Rovers , a fact which did not go unrecognised by who presented him with a beautiful jugglers top hat in his favourite team 's colours . |
| 6 | None of the movements is less than very well done , but I do miss the blazing splendour of this conductor 's finest Bruckner with his old orchestra , none of which , alas , has made it on to CD . |
| 7 | Why else had he come up to Tucker 's for fags when he could have got them closer to home ? |
| 8 | I 've brought out a pack of cards , but when you know you 've got them only to while away the hours , they are as exciting as a stack of washing up . |
| 9 | This is the first time I 've had someone round to tea in years , and it happens on the very day I become homeless . |
| 10 | She had had him in to hospital . |
| 11 | Okay right , stop , stop , stop please , you 're out of your heads if you have n't got it on to paper . |
| 12 | Southampton , who sent West Ham to the bottom of the division six weeks ago with a similar scoreline at The Dell , have hauled themselves close to safety with a run of one defeat in 13 matches . |
| 13 | They had tied her up to attention , with many a sniggering jest : They had bound a musket beside her , with the parrel beneath her breast ! |
| 14 | Whatever the impulse of the moment , she had n't given herself lightly to Roman . |
| 15 | Musk oxen were formerly widespread across the low tundra , but hunting by man has now restricted them mainly to north Greenland and the Canadian far north . |
| 16 | The revelations of evil that I had experienced had brought me only to confusion and powerlessness . |
| 17 | Well John sorted that he 's brought you up to date now . |
| 18 | Frustration had brought her almost to screaming-point . |
| 19 | At eighteen , in love with love , she 'd accepted his ring and walked on air until common sense had brought her down to earth and made her realise that marriage to him would be a total disaster . |
| 20 | Then the king 's son was so sorry for what he had done that he would willingly have died too , if it would have brought her back to life . |
| 21 | But Chris — Chris had brought him back to life . |
| 22 | They must have brought him back to tea with the grown-ups who would come later . |
| 23 | Nine days after the first spillage the government 's Marine Pollution Control Unit declared : " The stormy weather has broken down the oil and driven it out to sea . |
| 24 | This page and Outlook , page 27 Ferranti action : Ferranti International is planning legal action against some intermediaries in the ‘ phantom ’ arms contracts which have brought it close to collapse . |
| 25 | Only this afternoon , one of the Maison 's new fabric suppliers had asked her out to dinner and made it perfectly plain that he found her attractive . |
| 26 | His success projected him on to Channel 4 's comedy series Packet of Three and its follow-up , Packing Them In , which starts this month . |
| 27 | So er they 've put me out to grass so to speak . |
| 28 | Guynemer came to be accorded something close to deification . |
| 29 | She felt he was looking at her professionally now : a woman who had only had two cups of coffee for breakfast , who had not gone shopping or taken herself out to lunch as she had planned , who , in the old days , never seemed to waste a minute , who never laid down in the middle of the day and yet was now stretched out on the bed , inert , apathetic , openly admitting that she had n't realised the time . |
| 30 | Unlike his wife , who had taken herself off to bed like one of the heroines in the penny dramas , he , James Grierson , was going to do something . |