Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun pl] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thank you for bringing my feet down to the ground . |
| 2 | When he realised that the trousers hovered round his calves and that the shirt did n't do up it was too late ; I had put on my newer , better-fitting shirt , bloused my trousers on to the tops of my boots and was putting on his beret as he stood there looking like a circus tramp . |
| 3 | Travis 's query drew her thoughts back to the present . |
| 4 | Black jeans encased his tautly muscled legs , a black sweater outlined the breadth of his shoulders and drew her eyes down to the firmly tapering waist . |
| 5 | After a while the Sword Masters of Hoeth began to investigate the cult and report their findings back to the White Tower . |
| 6 | Holmes was addressing those who traced their roots back to the Puritans : ‘ We must not forget that our fathers were exiles from their dearly loved native land , driven by causes which no longer exist . |
| 7 | Before presenting the Service 's estimates to Parliament , the department should , in theory , prune its programmes down to the financial target line imposed by the Treasury ; but , in practice , it has been found that the bow-wave tends to dissipate as the actual financial year goes by because there are always delays in most programmes that lead to underspending on individual projects . |
| 8 | If we translate the colloquial meaning of ‘ nice guy ’ into its Darwinian equivalent , a nice guy is an individual that assists other members of its species , at its own expense , to pass their genes on to the next generation . |
| 9 | He jerked his senses back to the present with a star . |
| 10 | Willie fixed his eyes on to the gate and held his breath . |
| 11 | But surgeons at Frenchay Hospital , Bristol , were able to graft his corneas on to the eyes of another youngster who had been going blind . |
| 12 | He wanted Mrs Bottomley to pass his concerns on to the Prime Minister . |
| 13 | ‘ Please send your grooms back to the gate . ’ |
| 14 | And then , unable to be cross with him for long , you shift your feelings over to the critic . |
| 15 | ‘ And none o' them knows the secret o' the tunnel , ’ thought Aunt Clarabel happily as she led her followers back to the Jolly Jailer and handed out free drinks to all . |
| 16 | Both Greene and Cloke were jeered as they passed the post and cries of ‘ cheats ’ greeted them as they rode their mounts back to the unsaddling enclosure and were hauled before the stewards . |
| 17 | ‘ If I had spoken to anyone properly about how I felt after Hungerford , ’ he says , ‘ I 'm sure I would not have turned my problems over to the bottle . ’ |
| 18 | I put my hands out to the wall and , as I did so , the optimist still containing my legs , drifted away slowly , leaving my stomach sagging gracefully into the water . |
| 19 | She dropped her eyes back to the pile of letters . |
| 20 | She lifted her arms up to the warmth of the sun , filled with a sudden wild joy . |
| 21 | But one can imagine that Nicky , by virtue of size and age alone , could scare away any hungry young men looking to pour their hearts out to the delicate seeming star . |
| 22 | Steve laughed and directed his eyes back to the papers on the table . |
| 23 | No , no we 've got another office at Knebworth which is a village approximately six miles north of here , what I will also be doing automatically is passing your details through to the office so that as you 're looking for character property and village property they 'll be particularly appropriate okay , but also to make life easier we actually carry their details here so anything that they 've got available I 'll be able to give to you now |
| 24 | By the time she had got her cases up to the guest room , made the bed up and sorted out her food supplies it was beginning to get dark and , although she had a burning desire to go up to the studio , caution prevailed . |
| 25 | Also , both the vicarage and Rectory farm can trace their origins back to the 1500's . |
| 26 | These associations can often trace their origins back to the nineteenth century when they were , under different names , primarily concerned with giving relief in cash and kind to families in distress . |
| 27 | A number of premier families of the United States can trace their roots back to the County : |
| 28 | LOTHIAN REGION opened for business in 1975 and can trace its roots back to the local authorities which existed before that date . |
| 29 | The scheme will work with clubs either selling their tickets back to the WRU at a fixed rate or by becoming involved in profit-sharing . |
| 30 | Roland turned his eyes back to the shadowy desk . |