Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mildred slid him carefully into her pocket and raced up the stairs to her room , where she transferred him to a small box with holes in the lid which she had prepared specially for the journey . |
| 2 | Mr Woodcock , 47 , of Holgate , York , grabbed the weapon with one hand and it went off , blasting a wall with pellets , but he hung on , dragging the raider into the car park outside the restaurant , where he pinned him to the ground until armed police arrived . |
| 3 | Although it was late and Mr Edgar was tired after his journey , Joseph insisted , so I took him to the master 's room . |
| 4 | There 's at least one track from all eight albums , and two tracks are from a live album , so I gave it to a wonderful guy called Jonathan Downs from the Fan Club , who knows an awful lot that I 'd forgotten myself , or never even knew ! |
| 5 | Once I showed it to a psychical research woman who , after careful study of the plan of Versailles , said to me in a tense voice : ‘ You realize that the two ladies went bodily through a brick wall ? ’ |
| 6 | Rather than you selling it to the boss and then all the trouble . |
| 7 | Nor was the conversation doing anything other than drag down her spirits , so she brought it to a close by saying , ‘ I must go back to the office . |
| 8 | The house we sat in was still in chaos , so she led me to the sunny kitchen , where we talked and drank coffee , surrounded by boxes and plants and the smell of paint . |
| 9 | Kathy Rooney had to leave me one night when we were dining at the Kensington Hilton , so she took me to the porter to arrange for him to take me upstairs to my room when I was ready . |
| 10 | She ran out and tried to send me away but I pretended Sabine was expecting me , so she took me to the studio . |
| 11 | ‘ They spent a fortune developing the place , ’ the Maggot said , ‘ but the rich folks never came , so they sold it to the rich dickheads instead . ’ |
| 12 | They could n't come to a decision so they put it to the vote when — as the book put it — a pair of bearded anarchists , one with flame red hair , appeared out of nowhere and took their decision for them , smashing down the gates with sledgehammers . |
| 13 | ‘ His parents were too poor to keep him so they lent him to a forester . |
| 14 | The veal in the clingfilm had now thawed out so he consigned it to the wastebasket . |
| 15 | He 's mad on polo so he takes me to the Hurlingham Club to watch him play . |
| 16 | The bronze statue of Boadicea , in her chariot , which can be seen on the Thames Embankment at Westminster Bridge , is the work of Hamo Thornycroft , R.A. , who had a studio in Holland Park , but it proved too small , so he removed it to the ‘ tin tabernacle ’ which Sir John Isaac Thornycroft , F.R.S. , had built as a workshop in the gardens of Walpole House on Chiswick Mall , during the last decade of the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | Once he said it to the answering service . |
| 18 | If I take it to the police the matter will be dealt with much sooner than if we leave it where it is and wait for them to call here . |
| 19 | And yet if I refer you to no other example than that little one-legged girl whom we saw not so long ago in our Provence , does n't your universal statement collapse ? ’ |
| 20 | If I set it to the same frequency as the only Mark I Super C64 in existence , I might just be able to contact an old friend of ours . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Not if I beat them to a pulp it wo n't . |
| 22 | The tragedy unfolds through wonderful music — from the tentative If I Loved You to the final tear-jerker You 'll Never Walk Alone . |
| 23 | It had not been out of the cupboard for some months and it really showed off until I treated it to a stiff drink ( surgical spirit ) and a nice massage with an oily rag . |
| 24 | If you copy it to a different place , does it leave the blank formulas |
| 25 | That 's what I said to him , I said if you sent me to a |
| 26 | If you make it to the end of Chapter 7 and have registered a significant number of Yeses , I shall have done pretty well . |
| 27 | Positive , negative , and the thing at the end is a Z , of sorts All scores above the mean , if you converted them to a Z score you would expect them to be positive . |
| 28 | All scores below the mean , if you converted them to a Z score you would expect to be negative . |
| 29 | One of the punters approached the driver of the Bletchley train and said , ‘ if you beat them to the bridge there is a £1 for you at Bletchley ’ . |
| 30 | It 's not expensive if you couple it to an off-peak Economy Seven meter . |