Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stair thrust an arm around him , laid his head on Neil 's shoulder , and said , ‘ Let me treat you to a good ‘ un at Rachel 's , Neil , ’ which completed the destruction of any desire Neil might have had to treat himself . |
| 2 | Someone points her to an unimportant stool in a far comer . |
| 3 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |
| 4 | I led her to a small shelter in the Palace side of the Park . |
| 5 | So I moved it to the other side of the step . |
| 6 | Dutifully , I changed them to a complete muesli-type food which is described on the bag as ‘ Hi Protein Fitness Food ’ . |
| 7 | I do n't know what you 've got planned , there , but a decent boys ' day school is not something to be entered into lightly , it 's a hell of a commitment , I mean I send mine to the local primary and hope for the best … |
| 8 | In an effort to find an ally in helping her , I mentioned her to the local priest . |
| 9 | I compared him to the other gentlemen present . |
| 10 | ‘ May I refer you to an unimpeachable authority : Mr John Camden Hotten , author of a biography of Dickens , and also , he paused impressively , a life of Thackeray , refers to it in 1870 as Bleak House . |
| 11 | 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 ? ’ |
| 12 | We can stage a little comedy for ourselves if we pick out two expressions that I used in my last paragraph , and imagine ourselves presenting them to the startled and unwelcoming gaze of Max Beerbohm . |
| 13 | I made sure that I enjoyed it to the full , although it was wartime . |
| 14 | I devote myself to the modest task of first abstracting from the actual economic policy of the State , which is the resultant of the struggle between two systems of economy , and the corresponding classes , so as to investigate in its pure form the movement towards the optimum of primitive socialist accumulation , to discover the operation of the conflicting tendencies , as far as possible in their pure state , and then try to understand why the resultant in real life proceeds along one particular line and not another . |
| 15 | However , I refer him to the recent report on our manufacturing performance produced by the CBI entitled ’ Competing with the World 's Best ’ . |
| 16 | I refer him to the independent Centre for Economic Policy Research , where Professor Denis Snower recently published a document saying : ’ Implementing the social charter may be expected to hurt precisely those workers it seeks to help , in addition to raising unemployment and reducing investment ’ . |
| 17 | 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 ? ’ |
| 18 | I followed her to the Georgian wing where the rooms were more human size . |
| 19 | I followed him to the cold lands of the north , and bought dogs and a sledge . |
| 20 | Right , can I take you to the amended recommendation on page forty nine . |
| 21 | The tragedy unfolds through wonderful music — from the tentative If I Loved You to the final tear-jerker You 'll Never Walk Alone . |
| 22 | The expression " New Deal " was first used by Roosevelt in his speech accepting the Democratic Party nomination as its presidential candidate in July 1932 , when he said " I pledge you , I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people . " |
| 23 | Tomorrow morning may I invite you to a complimentary breakfast of tinned yam , tinned pineapple , tinned paw-paw , Belgian coffee , German rolls , Swiss sugar and English butter processed and packed in Kenya ? |
| 24 | I accustomed myself to the mephitic stench . |
| 25 | Later , in my cabin , I treated myself to a long , languorous Omnipure sauna before turning at last to the task of choosing my outfit for the meeting with the Emissary . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Can I press you to a candied starfish ? ’ |
| 28 | I took him to a nearby café . |
| 29 | I got him into the factory and from there we got the ambulance and … and I took him to the Royal Victoria Infirmary . ’ |
| 30 | My mother then gathered them up and put them in a container , and I took them to a nearby stream and let them go with goodness knows what effect on the environment . |