Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [conj] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.

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1 The thought disturbed her and brought her to her knees by Scathach 's scarred corpse .
2 Across the moors they pursued her until at last , near the North Cornish coast , they caught her and urged her to chose between them .
3 He looked round for the phone , found it and took it to the woman , laying it in her lap .
4 ‘ There is a letter somewhere , ’ Sister Cooney searched until she found it and handed it to him .
5 He put the tray down , lifted her and carried her to the WC on the landing .
6 She unwound it and gave it to him .
7 With care he lifted it and took it to the mouth of the chamber .
8 The rumour was , they stripped you and took you to the adventure zone .
9 It is tempting to explain the startling developments which duly took place in Russian domestic affairs in the second half of the 1850s and the first half of the 1860s by saying that the tsar recognized the extent of the difficulties which confronted him and applied himself to resolving them .
10 I turned it and played it to the net , though it did n't come in easily .
11 At the sink he filled a cup with cold water , drank it down in one gulp , refilled it and handed it to Frankie without comment .
12 He purchased a stamp from the counter clerk , licked it and affixed it to the envelope .
13 He fumbled and brought out his wallet from an inner pocket , opened It and passed it to her .
14 He pulled a crumpled letter out of his shirt pocket , opened it and handed it to her to read .
15 John Stronge , the zoo manager , then collected them and flew them to their incubators in Belfast .
16 Then she took the discarded flowers in her hands , kissed them and touched them to her forehead , and reverently murmured to herself , ‘ Beloved of my heart . ' ’
17 Pointing out the value of hat pins , Oliver fielded it and returned it to her with a bow .
18 Or repainted it or redone anything to it .
19 He took off his glove , signed it and gave it to the boy .
20 Ledwith and Crothers were described as window cleaners , and it was alleged that while one of them was inside a telephone box and the other was outside , P. C.s Roberts and Pearce arrested them and took them to the Bridewell .
21 Eventually my father took me to my room , undressed me and put me to bed .
22 He grabbed me and pulled me to him and started to kiss me , on the cheeks and nose and forehead and hair .
23 God has a way on retreats such as this of bringing home to us the challenge of a first-order question : ‘ Do you love me in the way Mary loved me and allowed herself to be used for my mission ? ’
24 It was like every time I got a letter or an insinuation from him that he cared , or that he really loved me or wanted me to be with him , it shocked me because he was n't good at showing that .
25 Granny plucked her and stuffed her and basted her and served her to the table , golden and gleaming .
26 I gave him some aspirin , undressed him and put him to bed .
27 He smiled foolishly as Josh undressed him and put him to bed ; he was feeling blissfully contented , but he could n't focus on anything very clearly .
28 The fourth to be hurt , while Victoria Sanchez waited patiently on the sidelines , knowing that one day Miguel would realise how much he loved her and wanted her to be mistress of the Casa Madrid .
29 There was a Django Reinhardt tape playing , I know because I recorded it and sold it to Stubbly , and Ken the barman was sitting on a bar stool reading the News of the World .
30 But before we could reach the Pacific , a violent storm hit us and drove us to the north-west of Tasmania .
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