Example sentences of "[pers pn] to [pos pn] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I 'd quite greet that as brief question , but thank you to your contribution to the discussion . |
| 2 | You will be met by your Enterprise representative who will direct you to your coach for the transfer to your resort . |
| 3 | Well the first few levels are just to get you used to the game , but , the other 100 levels will test you to your limit with the addition of elevators , boiling acid , lasers , lava acid and anti-grav . |
| 4 | ‘ But unfortunately , mademoiselle , I have been sent to escort you to your appointment at the château . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ And what brought you to my cottage in the middle of the night , with that story about your tent blowing away ? |
| 6 | I ca n't bear to let it out of my hands — I shall have to carry it with me to my appointment at the Commission … |
| 7 | The hostility of United directors to his backers persuaded Mr Knighton that he could never hope to reconcile them to his ownership of the club . |
| 8 | If the accused person recounts his childhood experiences and relates them to his commission of the crime , is the entire discussion ‘ regarding such crime ’ ? |
| 9 | ‘ I have sent them to my brother in the Northern Capital until you solve this for us . ’ |
| 10 | There was little time left before his meeting with Merymose , so he did not return to his house , but took a circuitous route which would bring him to their rendezvous at the moment the sun touched the top of the western cliffs . |
| 11 | Limeking went down as if shot , and his rider Pat Buckley desperately tried to get him to his feet as the horse , flanks heaving , lay in a mess of thorn and fir and mud . |
| 12 | Turner dragged him to his feet by the hair . |
| 13 | Balcha now had no alternative but to surrender to Ras Tafari who , with characteristic magnanimity , spared his life ; as to whether he ordered Balcha to enter a monastery or banished him to his estates in the Gurage country , accounts differ . |
| 14 | When he dragged out the table and the lamplight spilled onto the splodges of cadmium yellow and scarlet lake , he thought of the girl who had shown him to his dressing-room on the morning of his arrival . |
| 15 | In it , a wizard enchants two sisters , one after the other , to accompany him to his house in the depth of the forest . |
| 16 | The policeman explained that Oliver had become ill , and the old gentleman had taken him to his house in the Pentonville district of north London . |
| 17 | He urged her to her feet with the pressure of his hands . |
| 18 | With treacherous defiance , her eyes closed , abandoning her to her fate like the rest of her body , and she felt a despair that her brain was so languid that it was n't helping her to deny him . |
| 19 | When she left , Emerson volunteered to escort her to her car at the bottom of the drive . |
| 20 | Well , finally she left , and I saw her to her jeep with the new hair-drier which I found I had to press her to keep . |
| 21 | They took her to her stall in the market , demanding she handed over the arms and propaganda they accused her of storing there . |
| 22 | He had decided to get away from his chaperons and ask her to his hotel for the night . |
| 23 | It was only when the colours gave way to plain gold before subsiding into diminishing fountains of silver that she realised she had moved closer to Rune , seeking instinctive protection against the sharp noise of the exploding rockets and that he had gathered her to his strong male body , pinning her to his side by the power of his arm , his hand firmly pressed against her waist . |
| 24 | ( 3 ) An observation question asks pupils to describe something without relating it to their knowledge of the situation , e.g. " Describe what is happening in the picture ? " |
| 25 | When planners in these corporations invented a new piece of military hardware , the Cruise missile , and proceeded to ‘ sell ’ it to their contacts in the Pentagon and in Congress , they structured the whole context of defence debates not only in the United States but across all the NATO countries in Western Europe as well ( Kaldor , 1982 ) . |
| 26 | But British authorities are sceptical of its importance and do not intend to add it to their evidence to the Sizewell public inquiry ( which is now enjoying an Easter break ) . |
| 27 | Here Haydn was the principal pioneer , but Mozart expanded the form , pushing it to its limits within the Classical framework he inherited , and laying the foundation for the supreme achievements of Beethoven . |
| 28 | She knew she had misused her body in Sri Lanka , pushing it to its limits in the tropical heat with inadequate time for rest . |
| 29 | Marshalls were happily able to restore it to its owner after the race in perfect health . |
| 30 | He took the scrapbook and restored it to its place on the shelf . |