Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Suddenly the guy pulled a knife on the bouncer and stabbed him to death-right in front of my eyes . ’ |
| 2 | It 's alleged that twenty eight year old Andrew Livermore of Northampton , went to the home of Digby Saunderson last August and stabbed him to death on his doorstep . |
| 3 | It was Marriott who suggested that Stirling should make himself scarce for a while and recommended him to Brigadier Denys Reid . |
| 4 | It was one of the magnetic forces that drew them overseas , and led them to disappointment quite as often as to wealth . |
| 5 | The pair had been trapped in an upstairs ' room until firefighters smashed their way in through a window and led them to safety down a ladder . |
| 6 | Bobby bought it yesterday and lent it to dad cos we bought we bought ourself , well Rob , dad did , I do n't look at them erm they 're too violent for me but dad bought it in Superkey only five ninety nine . |
| 7 | I phoned Shirley , a friend I 'd made who ran a travel agency , and asked her to book me on the mid-day Concorde . |
| 8 | But Jim insisted , insisted that I bought him a pint and asked me to caddie for him the following week at St Anne 's . |
| 9 | Right well it came up when War on Want wrote to us and asked us to affiliate and we had a brief chat about it and felt that there are many groups that we could affiliate to . |
| 10 | The giant , who by now had reached her , was maddened with what he saw and battered her to death with his club . |
| 11 | ‘ He turned to face her , brought her to the floor and battered her to death , ’ he said . |
| 12 | An RAF helicopter spotted their craft drifting about 10 miles off Aberdovey and winched them to safety . |
| 13 | The courier took an envelope from his inside pocket and passed it to Tuck , and also offered him paper and a pen , so that the receipt could be acknowledged . |
| 14 | It was about er the press and unemployment and it was about the way the effects of unemployment were written about in well broadsheet and popular newspapers , it also involved a bit of a study where I gave people some articles to show which had been typed up in a fairly anonymous format and , and got them to rate them in various ways and that was in , let me see , nineteen eighty three long long time ago |
| 15 | But he settled for the blackjack , and charged it to Visa . |
| 16 | A week later , however , when Branson walked into the shop close to the Virgin offices in Portobello Road where Joan worked , selling Victorian advertising ephemera , and invited her to lunch , she accepted . |
| 17 | So it was that as March 1981 drew to a close , Branson telephoned Rodney Birbeck , the editor of Music Week — the trade ‘ Bible ’ of the British record industry — and invited him to lunch . |
| 18 | I must have kept my end up successfully , though , for just before he left Dennis sought me out and invited me to dinner the following Friday . |
| 19 | ‘ Anyway , she came to my door and invited me to dinner . ’ |
| 20 | She had sent volunteers out to botanise , and invited me to coffee in the Harris Hotel . |
| 21 | He was a friend of a friend , and gave us a warm welcome and invited us to lunch . |
| 22 | Just as physics and chemistry helped to modernize biology and moved it to centre stage during the past thirty years , I believe that biology is about to augment the social sciences greatly and move them to centre stage . |
| 23 | As far as I know , she went on to live a long life , enjoyed the notoriety , and used it to advantage in the family business , exploiting rumours of her Evil Eye to scare off creditors , and to get the best out of every bargain . ’ |
| 24 | He installed a steam engine and boiler from Saverys of Tewkesbury and used it to power three pairs of stones and flour dressing equipment . |
| 25 | Now , Joe Zawinul : he developed his own sound and used it to perfection . |
| 26 | Just as they planned , the couple set upon the unfortunate woman the following day , and beat her to death before pushing her body into the shallow pool . |
| 27 | Kenneth Parks said he was sleeping the night he drove 14 miles to her home , let himself in , and beat her to death . |
| 28 | Probably when the saying went into general use , people did n't understand it and changed it to cat . |
| 29 | Every morning I drove him to the hospital , waited for his X-ray treatment , drove him home again and helped him to bed . |
| 30 | They went up to her and calmed her and helped her to bed . |