Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Switch on and move the appropriate levers on the banks of controllers , and the children come running out of the house , little pink-cheeked creatures half an inch high , who turn to wave at Felicity as she comes out on the terrace to see them off to school . |
2 | They 'll use their experience to try to nurse them back to health . |
3 | felt too tired to drive me on to ESF 's house , so I got there by bus , or rather by two buses ( an easy change ) , the first starting from about a hundred yards from and the other stopping just behind the Zoo by Primrose Hill and only a few minutes from Eduardo . |
4 | To encourge them back to Oxfordshire , BBONT have launched a 2 year project to find out exactly why they disappeared . |
5 | Indeed any attempt to relate them prematurely to reality may restrict the development of the model . |
6 | To air clothes when there is no airing cupboard is not only a chore , but an expensive one , while to fail to air all the unworn clothes is frequently to write them off to mildew . |
7 | If I hear of one more occasion on which you make these allegations I shall feel it my duty to pass them on to Connon myself . |
8 | Cos I might be able to cart them off to Joanne and Emma to give them to their mum 's on Mother 's Day |
9 | My wife 's friends in the KGB would be happy to escort me home to Russia . ’ |
10 | ‘ I did n't want a sick woman on my hands — to have to break my journey to cart you off to hospital . ’ |
11 | It was hardly a secret that Gallieni , no admirer of Joffre ( who , among other things , had stolen much of the honour due to Gallieni for the victory of the Marne ) , wanted eventually to pull him back to Paris in the largely administrative capacity of a CIGS , while placing the executive command of the armies in the field under de Castelnau . |
12 | Overwhelmed by not having noticed this earlier , by his failure of politeness , observation and helpfulness , all that had been taught him from boyhood up , Richard proceeded at the double onto the Embankment , to escort her on to Lord Jim . |
13 | A French galley will pick her up off the coast of the Forth and take her out to the sea where other ships are waiting to escort her back to France . |
14 | Particularly when she wishes you to escort her back to Les Hiboux . |
15 | In this encounter and during many others following , as it turned out , his God proved more willing to try him than to catch him up to safety ; and in this trial of his will , Kit Everard failed . |
16 | Members agreed to pass it on to Durham County Council . |
17 | I think he would then be obliged to pass it across to Great George Street , and I could honourably retire to the dull comfortable depths of the Annual Assessment . |
18 | you want to talk them back to safety ; |
19 | If you are totally fed up , one extra bar of chocolate or cake or any one single luxury item is not going to set you back to square one . |
20 | Later it was to lead him on to Oz , Ink , and Friends . |
21 | Ganymede was beloved by ZEUS , who assumed the guise of an eagle so as to spirit him up to Olympus ; there he was given immortality and became the gods ' cup-bearer , responsible for giving them their daily draught of the Elixir of Life . |
22 | I wanted to carry you off to bed and make love to you . ’ |
23 | If it were not for my concern for my grandmother , I would — I would put you out of the car right now , I would let you wait beside the road until someone took pity on you and offered to drive you back to Milano . ’ |
24 | General Monk , in the spring of 1660 , led a bloodless coup and declared that Charles II should become King , so a warship was sent to Holland to fetch him back to England , where he arrived before the end of May , aged 30 years , and was received rapturously in London . |
25 | for another two hundred pound for if I get it right is it to fetch it over to Mansfield or their |
26 | With small , isolated follies and temples , one solution is to let them out to artists . |
27 | So I wake my feet up , stop fantasizing about the bomb , and invite the East London Line to ferry me up to Whitechapel . |
28 | He did not go so far as to offer to guide them onward to Gilsland , by night , since that would have been to insult the Armstrongs , Jardines and Johnstones . |
29 | Erin kicked Khaur over to where he 'd been told to sit when the pilot first landed at the burrow to ferry them back to headquarters . |
30 | ‘ I 'm going to put you back to bed if you do n't stop it . |