Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to [art] private [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gave my orders and they led me to a private room and brought me some writing paper and a pen . |
| 2 | ‘ Can you direct me to the private wing ? ’ |
| 3 | I have carried out several privatisations in my time in commercial and industrial departments , and my understanding of the word privatisation is that one takes something currently managed in the public sector and transfers it to the private sector — the last such transfer in which I was engaged involved British Steel . |
| 4 | The receptionist directed them to a private ward on the third floor . |
| 5 | His parents were not affluent but they pumped what money they had into his education , sending him to a private school , Edinburgh 's Merchiston . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , exactly — ’ she hrumphed some more — ‘ I said she was still going to be in Maidstone for a few days though we were thinking of moving her to a private hospital . |
| 7 | Julia followed her to the private bed-sitting room , where her child was happily playing in his cot . |
| 8 | Once privatised , BNP is likely to emulate Société Générale , which has shed staff , costs and unprofitable accounts since Mr Balladur , then finance minister , returned it to the private sector in 1987 . |
| 9 | Police believe the birds were stolen to order by specialist thieves who 'll sell them to a private collector abroad . |
| 10 | John Ferrar knew Little Gidding to be too notorious to be safe , and guided him to a private house nearby . |
| 11 | ‘ His usual spin took him to a private beach at the Dragonara Hotel in St Julien with Denis and Frankie 's sister Betty . |
| 12 | An owner now obtained ( in theory at least ) the same price for his land irrespective of whether he sold it to a private individual or to a public authority . |
| 13 | One of them hailed me and gave me a fiver to take them to a private clinic in Harley Street . |
| 14 | He carried her to a private room at the hotel , where she could rest until she felt well enough to ride home . |