Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] to some [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 By 1719 , the buildings of both the house and the hall were rapidly falling into ruin and a storm of 1720 , blew parts of the hall to the ground , but a stone figure of Haymo blown from a niche over the door was undamaged , falling it is said on to some grass , this was later presented to the Bishop of Rochester .
2 So , expecting to be whisked off to some faraway hot spot for a mild spell of brainwashing , we duly prepared to bring you next week 's Unigram from under the shade of a palm tree on a secluded sandy beach — or at least somewhere nicer than four storeys above the Charing Cross Road in rainy central London .
3 By the time of Napoleon 's war against Prussia and his defeat of Frederick William III 's armies at Jena and Auerstadt in 1806 , the people of Danzig were far from disloyal to the Prussian cause , far from willing to throw off Prussian rule , lest they be handed over to some form of Polish domination .
4 Oh , he said , I expect in a minute the door will be flung back and I 'll be dragged off to some sort of temple arena where I 'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then I 'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl will show me the secret passage out of the place and we 'll liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure . ’
5 She had been lucky so far ; she had not yet been caught , not yet been dragged off to some shrink and asked for explanations .
6 The immediate assumption is that there is a chemical communication between leaf and branch all over the tree , and this possibility is borne out to some degree by the character of leaf and caterpillar battles in other species .
7 The teacher had finally got her class settled down to some work .
8 It also it is a fact that the people that you do tend to lend the equipment out to take it for granted that you are also a highly qualified video sort of technician and if anything goes wrong , they ring you up and say ‘ What plug goes where , and why is n't this working ’ and why should you if you 're working run down to some conference in the John Hall Room and try and sort out something for these people .
9 Chesarynth hoped all the secretaries were happily jacked in to some routine part of the system , or getting their jollies from the nerve-stimulators some of them were addicted to .
10 Outside the party the syndicalists had formed a " Left " of the unions and this had been taken over to some extent by the Communist Party of Great Britain , founded in 1920 .
11 Sabine had half expected to be taken round to some tradesman 's entrance , but Marie-Christine led the way to the main door , chattering nineteen to the dozen , clearly relieved that her mission was almost accomplished .
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