Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They used to be Bangor fans but I think I have won them over to Glentoran . ’ |
| 2 | At some point before 664 Ealhfrith ejected Eata , abbot of Melrose and a pupil of Aidan ( HE III , 16 ) , and his companion , Cuthbert , who would not accept the Catholic Easter and other canonical rites of the Roman Church , from his new foundation at Ripon and committed it instead to Wilfrid ( HE III , 25 : V , 19 ) It was with Ealhfrith that Bishop Agilbert and his priest , Agatho , stayed when they visited the northern Angles prior to arguing in favour of the Dionysian Easter at the council of Whitby ( HE III , 25 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Stratford had leased them out to Thomas Merryat , or Merret , but by the 1620s , his grandson , John , had taken control and was leasing the mills to a Stroud textile dealer , Gyles Davis . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Her joking tone matched his almost to perfection . |
| 7 | Up until yesterday , when the whole thing had taken shape and he had whisked her away to Rocamar , she had simply been his confidante — at least , that was how she had seen herself , and she 'd assumed that was how he saw her too . |
| 8 | I had pushed it up to £25,000 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | PGA has finally made it on to Windows . |
| 12 | Why else had he come up to Tucker 's for fags when he could have got them closer to home ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She had had him in to hospital . |
| 15 | Okay right , stop , stop , stop please , you 're out of your heads if you have n't got it on to paper . |
| 16 | But if you 'd come after me , and I 'm sure you would have done , you' d have dragged me back to England and I did n't want to leave Leinster . " |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Rivalry over girls had brought them almost to blows many times ; but not quite . |
| 20 | She prepared some tea for them , chatting about generalities , asking them what had brought them back to France . |
| 21 | My time in submarines had brought me closer to people of a totally different background and I had learnt a great deal from my sailors about their home circumstances before the war . |
| 22 | The revelations of evil that I had experienced had brought me only to confusion and powerlessness . |
| 23 | Well John sorted that he 's brought you up to date now . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not saying you are n't still quite attractive , but you must be creeping into your early thirties , so what you need is security — and that is what has brought you back to Silas . |
| 25 | Frustration had brought her almost to screaming-point . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They were vague shadowy figures , rather like her own mother had been , except that she remembered them slightly better because , when she had been about eight years old , Granny Tremayne had driven her over to Newquay where they had been staying . |
| 29 | But Chris — Chris had brought him back to life . |
| 30 | They must have brought him back to tea with the grown-ups who would come later . |