Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A submarine took them to the island and the party made a successful landing in rubber boats . |
| 2 | I remember a hansom pipped me to a good prospect , in Threadneedle Street . |
| 3 | For the first time ever there 's racing at Cheltenham this sunday … its going to be a fun day … and so too is tomorrow for the winner of the first big steeplechase of the year … it 's the Mackeson Gold Cup … there 's fifty five thousand pounds in prizemoney … our search for a winner takes us to Herefordshire and a horse called Spacefair |
| 4 | One moment she was directing Maria in the making of knead cakes , the next she was taken with a sensation of wishing to bear down , no pains preceding it , and had a struggle to get herself to bed and to have Ferdinando and the midwife sent for . |
| 5 | It would seem that a vicar exposed himself to a young lady of tender years on Devil 's Bridge sometime in the 1800s . |
| 6 | Polls had until recently shown support for Mr Patten but now a majority wants him to back down . |
| 7 | There was no other option as the Hurseys live in a known highrisk parvovirus area and carrying around a Great Dane puppy in a blanket to acclimatise him to street life — as one might with Yorkshire terrier pup — is hardly practical AND needs a very large owner ! |
| 8 | A chamberlain showed them to their seats just beneath the high table , which was dominated by a pearl-encrusted silver salt cellar . |
| 9 | He 's got a nerve asking you to , well letting you do this . |
| 10 | A manacle secures them to the Dubrovlag . |
| 11 | It was a mournful pair that hired a boat to take them to Saltash and acquaint the Lee family of the tragedy . |
| 12 | A boat returned me to the little coral landing-strip ; Friendly Islands Airways took me down to Tongatapu ; and within half a day I was settled in a small hotel in Auckland , waiting for the weekly Cathay Pacific jet home . |
| 13 | I stated my views to Lord Stanley as fully as I could , but I fear that the Exchequer is not in a condition to enable him to second my views , 1 think you will do me the credit to say that if any man can organize an Expedition for interior research I can , and that there are few if any here more qualified from experience for such a task . |
| 14 | A herb will protect them , says the disguised angel to the brothers ; a shepherd gave it to him : |
| 15 | It is a pleasure to welcome you to our Open Day . |
| 16 | It had been a sideline to use her to further his love-life . |
| 17 | However , despite protests from the priests , who identified Gervais Sindakira as one of their workers , a soldier bayoneted him to death . |
| 18 | And , on the other side , one outcome of the Truce of Orléans was that Charles took the abbacy of Ferrières away from Odo and gave it to a member of the community whose chief recommendation ( with still more pull than his fine scholarship ) was a readiness to commit himself to Charles . |
| 19 | as if waiting for a command to bring them to life , Trent thought . |
| 20 | As soon as it 's possible I 'll have a car take you to the airport . |
| 21 | Time for the same man to complete his work in Finland , then catch a plane to London and hire a car to take him to Suffolk . |
| 22 | Oh he might be away for thre , cos I know he had golf at the Belfry this week , and then when he comes back he 's being picked up by a car to take him to the Belfry again , cos we 're entertaining there for a weekend 's golf . |
| 23 | She was still deep in thought when the sound of a car drew her to the window . |
| 24 | After it was all over there was another strange and thrilling event when a car whisked me to the News at Ten studios where I was interviewed by someone in Leeds . |
| 25 | Frenchman Alain Prost has come out of retirement in a bid to steer it to a fourth world title next season . |
| 26 | There a lady showed us to our seats , once we had got comfortable we were shown a safety routine by the stewardesses . |
| 27 | A frog asked a princess to take him to bed with her so that he could turn into a fairy prince . |
| 28 | When he had been given to Uncle Farmborough to be his heir and to look after him in his old age , he was considered fortunate — but how could a child reconcile itself to such a strange state of affairs that he had been given away , to the fact that his own father and mother , brother and sister , lived quite near in the village but , as it were , in a different camp ? |
| 29 | ‘ And now — and again because of my wife 's insistence , because of her concern for your health — I have hired a conveyance to take you to the railway station at Skipton . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ The thought of having the baby without a home to take it to is awful , ’ the 22-year-old mum says . |