Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] i to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I skulked down one side of the garden and went through the arch which led me to a walled garden in the middle of which there was a fountain playing . |
| 2 | The restaurant is on a lease and I understand that when the lease ran out there was a law which entitled me to a new one . |
| 3 | Which brings me to a small room in an Ambleside hotel and an impossibly short deadline . |
| 4 | Which brings me to a serious point , my dear . |
| 5 | ‘ Which brings me to the final thing we need to discuss . |
| 6 | So it seemed to me , sir , that we need a very very special justification for this all embracing E two policy which brings me to the other thing to say about it as a general principle . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Can you direct me to the private wing ? ’ |
| 9 | The Australian representative of the Mission , who drove me to the Southern Cross Hotel in Sydney , explained that the Mantela , a Sanderstown boat of 5,000 tons which normally plied between the islands , had just finished a refit in Sydney and was about to sail two days after my arrival . |
| 10 | She left her second cup of tea , and she followed me to the front door . |
| 11 | The Fernies got rid of her when I left and she walked me to the front gate . |
| 12 | We were delighted , and at a convenient interlude she took me to a favourite uncle , an Air Vice-Marshal . |
| 13 | Undismayed , she sent me to a first-class crammer for two terms , and Brian to another preparatory school . |
| 14 | I was met at the door by the commander of the bodyguard , who introduced me to the domestic staff — the cooks , the maids , the rest of the bodyguard and the gardener . |
| 15 | Would you drive me to the British Embassy ? ’ |
| 16 | Padding out as silently as she came , she left me to the early morning quiet . |
| 17 | I gave my orders and they led me to a private room and brought me some writing paper and a pen . |
| 18 | They took me to a secret prison and raped me over and over again by forcing the barrel of a gun into me . |
| 19 | They took me to an enormous wall built of Pelasgian blocks . |
| 20 | He led me to a long , low building . |
| 21 | Where was Um Al-Farajh , I asked him , and he led me to a large square of fir trees and pointed to the earth . |
| 22 | He led me to a large , upright scallop of rock . |
| 23 | He directed me to a main road on the edge of Jaffa and to a small lane that ran off it to the north . |
| 24 | And he takes me to an Italian restaurant in Mitcham . |
| 25 | On the second evening of my visit he took me to a literary party given by the Chicago Tribune in honour of Carl Sandberg in the sumptuous lounge of a club called ‘ The 333 ’ ( at 333 Michigan Boulevard ) . |
| 26 | He took me to a waiting Jaguar equipped with air conditioning , stereo system , and a very pretty girl : ‘ at my disposal for the rest of my stay ’ . |
| 27 | He sent me to a Jesuit boarding school . |
| 28 | I got on the buses at Trafalgar Square , it took me to the other end and brought me back again , and I got down and got on another one . |
| 29 | He introduced me to the local shoemender , he showed me where the gypsies sometimes camped . |
| 30 | Our greetings over , he introduced me to the hovering writers . |