Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] to [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ad led them to Jennifer Vettel , who told the magazine that when her husband objected to her bike , she sold it . |
| 2 | So , the desire for a yacht which would take him and his wife on a worldwide cruise , comfortably and quickly , led them to Warwick Collins after they had seen one of his previous yachts , called Fondue , a 38-footer ( 11.5m ) . |
| 3 | Enquiries led me to owner Tony Allen and the information that it awaited final paperwork after having had floats fitted . |
| 4 | Then he got me to Bryn Mawr . |
| 5 | She lived at New Houses , and was related to me in a mixed up kind of way — her father and my grandmother were cousins , but what that made me to Miss Bayles I can not imagine ! |
| 6 | The eighty-one plates still extant and now in the possession of the museum of Raleigh in North Carolina , were acquired during the eighteenth century by the French amateur engraver Claude-Henri Watelet who in turn sold them to Pierre-François Basan . |
| 7 | She sold them to Henry Skelton 's girlfriend shortly before he fell from a third floor window and died . |
| 8 | His manager John Reid invited me to New York that year to introduce Elton on stage at Madison Square Garden . |
| 9 | ‘ We did n't know much about ticks , and when we got back to the BBC , we mentioned them to Michael Andrews , author of The Life that Lives on Man , who informed us that , on BCI , ticks carry Rocky Mountain spotted fever ! |
| 10 | The hon. Member for Linlithgow kindly referred me to Leptis Magna and the successful irrigation system of the Roman world . |
| 11 | Then the wanderer sought a resting place : he became a hermit and dedicated himself to St Cuthbert . |
| 12 | It was a task she devoted herself to while Ted with a most ungentlemanly violence of language put the car into reverse and tried to back up the lane . |
| 13 | The Goldsmiths referred her to Sir Edmond 's will , and she withdrew . |
| 14 | ‘ You did n't say anything about your brother so I never mentioned him to Emily Grenfell . |
| 15 | Their request for assistance was referred to a circuit judge who in turn referred it to Ward J. who was sitting in the same circuit centre . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , ’ said the Queen , ‘ would it help if I mentioned it to Mrs Thatcher ? ’ |
| 17 | I mentioned it to Dr McKenzie this morning , adding that I nonetheless feel perfectly well . |
| 18 | Five years ago , when I first had the notion of a show based on Joyce 's work , I mentioned it to Clive James , who knew her personally . |
| 19 | When he first mentioned it to Mr Gebler he thought the old guy was going to have a fit . |
| 20 | The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People tried it to scourge Hollywood ; but Hollywood just giggled . |
| 21 | At first General Powell called him General Noriega then , after some consideration , changed it to Mr Noriega . |
| 22 | They needed polishing before she subjected them to Alexander Vass 's scrutiny . |
| 23 | The Jacques who drove me to Les Hiboux ? ’ |
| 24 | Adam Gopnik actually once compared him to William Blake , saying Steinberg could , like Blake , ‘ make the life of the mind visible … take metaphors and abstract ideas and turn them into drawings . ’ |
| 25 | Matthew Smith compared him to Van Gogh . |
| 26 | But he now writes to say that Newton also likened him to Dennis Skinner MP . |
| 27 | When she reached Soho , a policeman directed her to Manette Street ; a narrow alley between two tall buildings . |
| 28 | He bought the lordship in 1313 , granted it to Régine de Goth in his will , and she in turn bequeathed it to Jean I of Armagnac . |
| 29 | Rockingham Castle has been the home of the Watson family since 1530 when Henry VIII granted it to Edward Watson . |
| 30 | The Merseyside soap opera star , an avid modern art collector , set off in pursuit , overpowered the two men and one woman and frogmarched them to Hope Street police station after making a citizen 's arrest . |