Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pron] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked up my briefcase , started out the door and asked the FBI agent on the case to see me downstairs to a cab because I did n't feel very safe in Chicago . |
| 2 | Indeed any attempt to relate them prematurely to reality may restrict the development of the model . |
| 3 | He kept no symbols of his religion to give him away to his comrades . |
| 4 | The men following up therefore had only to pinion the defender and use their momentum to force him backwards to be given yet another kick instead of a scrum . |
| 5 | Is there a message for me from a garage ? ’ she changed her mind to rephrase it pleasantly to the man whom she 'd seen many times before and who , from his broad welcoming smile , she knew had remembered her . |
| 6 | The only small mammal to make it even to the top 20 was the meerkat , cover star of our February 1987 issue and subject of Meerkats United , one of the most popular Wildlife on One programmes ever shown . |
| 7 | Those who only ‘ play ’ at astrology are protected to a certain degree by their own reluctance to give themselves fully to it . |
| 8 | Soviet negotiators had been eager to preserve for the Soviet Union the right to retain something close to 80 per cent of the Warsaw Pact total . |
| 9 | She 'd no desire to present her behind to any other man . |
| 10 | They were off Burnmouth by sunrise , where the rowers rested awhile , for Ramsay had bargained with the fishermen to take them onward to Dunbar , in a repetition of the previous escape . |
| 11 | Perhaps Marcus had read her previous reticence to give herself completely to him as boredom with the scenario of casual individual relationships which were par for the course for their contemporaries , and had laid on a partner-swapping party to titillate her interest . |
| 12 | Junior wants granddaddy to carry him right to the car . ’ |
| 13 | Early that evening when John and Laura boarded the train to take them home to Glasgow , Maggie was with them . |
| 14 | ‘ They are enchanted by him , and that is why they made special arrangements to bring him home to the United States . ’ |
| 15 | It was the duty of merchants and craftsmen to trade honestly with one another , of husbandmen and artificers to apply themselves diligently to their labours and take pleasure in them , eschewing ostentation as well as hunting and hawking , which were the privileges of the gentry , nor wasting their time and substance in alehouses or playing unlawful games . |
| 16 | It is perhaps not surprising that when a Christian mob destroyed the synagogue in Clermont , in the aftermath of an outrage committed on a Jewish convert to Christianity , Avitus did nothing to protect the Jews , but used the incident to force them either to be baptized or to leave the city . |
| 17 | You can specify a door to take you directly to another room , and just double click on it to get to another application . |
| 18 | When the revolt collapsed and Judith was released , Charles rode out with his uncle Drogo bishop of Metz to escort her home to a ceremonial reception at Aachen in February 831 . |
| 19 | ‘ On my last legs , ’ Seth wrote later , ‘ I hied down to New Orleans to drink myself quietly to death , and nearly did , but something awoke in me and I wrote a book instead . ’ |
| 20 | It is likely that the church planter will soon want to leave his secular employment to devote himself fully to the work . |
| 21 | Dmitri Passk was a non-runner , with a wife and two children to hold him firmly to his homeland . |
| 22 | ( It was a painful effort to personalize It even to the extent of apportioning sex . ) |
| 23 | I do n't think you 'd get many volunteers to join you either to be honest . |
| 24 | We may even use our verbal and non-verbal signals to persuade others to change the formal requirements to bring them closer to our expectations . |
| 25 | Miffed , Grunte hailed a cab and instructed the driver to take him gently to Roedean . |
| 26 | Richard Baxter 's view that it was advantageous for a pastor to be celibate in order to give himself fully to the work of the ministry was well known . |
| 27 | If she heard laughter that was n't there it was not her ears but her brain which was at fault , and she wished to preserve her experience intact in order to present it freshly to the specialist whom she intended to consult when her holiday was over . |
| 28 | In Manhattan , the famous yellow water-taxis thread their way through the grid of canals to take you directly to the landing-stage of hotels in the luxuriously converted upper storeys of what were once the city 's proudest skyscrapers . |
| 29 | The same day the King died , late in the morning , this mysterious Frenchman hired my husband 's boat and services to take him across to Inverkeithing . |
| 30 | One of the major themes of the 1980s was the decentralisation of services to make them closer to the public . |