Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack and two others who had witnessed the performance , found me and piloted me back to the warmth and safety of the ski-cabin . |
| 2 | Next he led the spinnaker sheets aft to the cockpit and made them fast to the stern cleats with plenty of slack . |
| 3 | There was no famine and for most urban residents conditions of life improved during the 1920s — 1930s , but cities were by no means the havens of wealth and prosperity that hostile or covetous agricultural ideologues made them out to be . |
| 4 | She had brought things to make their evening meal and she emptied them on to the work-counter : wine , cheese , spinach , onions , bread , the pink-white tines of a rack of lamb , as if all the promise of their future lay in the guarantee of such ordinariness being possible . |
| 5 | They went down a narrow lane called Smugglers ' Gully , which led them on to a wild rocky headland . |
| 6 | The captain of the guard led them on to the scaffold , a scrawny-faced clerk gabbled out the sentence of the court . |
| 7 | Nicholson led them through to another solid steel gate . |
| 8 | Our Georgia guests used the small flat-bottomed craft to go bonefishing one afternoon , and Thessy , well trained by his father , led them unerringly to a sea-flat by a mangrove swamp where , in just a few heart-racing moments , they landed four of the gleaming and elusive fish . |
| 9 | ‘ Nice to meet you , Chief Inspector , ’ he said with automatic politeness , then considered what he had just said , decided it was beyond explanation and led them upstairs to his office . |
| 10 | Ferryman led them over to Jackie 's cot . |
| 11 | They were ready now , and he led them back to the Saloon . |
| 12 | But even before the trustees commenced their search , the looming rudderlessness of their ship led them back to none other than Mr Brettell himself . |
| 13 | She then rejoined the others outside , and the Doctor led them back to the TARDIS . |
| 14 | They had tried twice before , and on each occasion they had been pursued relentlessly through the forests by hostile Moi tribesmen who had stripped them naked , lashed their hands behind them and led them back to the plantation roped together at the neck with twisted creepers . |
| 15 | Gaveston led them back to the heart of the palace whence a servitor took them up to a chamber high in the building . |
| 16 | In disgust the guide led them back to the car park , where they overtipped to avoid a scene and got away without trouble . |
| 17 | He then led them back to the safety of the Allied trenches . |
| 18 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
| 19 | With marked reluctance , the elderly woman led them inside to a small sitting-room , which overlooked the garden at the rear of the house . |
| 20 | The porter took care of their horses and Lady Amelia , walking like a ghost before them , led them across to the guest house . |
| 21 | I flung them on to the bed where she should have been , but was n't . |
| 22 | She pinned them bravely to the shoulder of her dress , touched the blooms lightly with her fingers and said to the room at large , |
| 23 | If he rode me over to Romorantin to catch the early train to Paris , would I mind going out to Reine for him ? |
| 24 | In the evening when the booking and despatch department would start packing up to go , so would I and no one asked me not to . |
| 25 | They give you something for that cos I m the B B C asked me once to , they knocked the door and said would I make a note of all the programmes for one week and just put my opinion , it was just four different , you know , |
| 26 | ‘ Within four minutes he asked me out to dinner . |
| 27 | We chatted so much on that first date , and then Denise asked me out to dinner the next night . |
| 28 | He led me through to the next room , and up against the wall there lay a stack of some ten to fifteen canvases . |
| 29 | But her eyes were fail of pain as she led me through to the lounge . |
| 30 | Now , " he said , placing a creaky arm across my shoulders as he led me through to the parlour , " I want you to meet Vron . " |