Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [pron] [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theda 's eyes met the scorching flame in his as she rose shakily to her feet to face him . |
| 2 | Indeed , she told me that she looked forward to practising them each evening as it formed such a peaceful interlude in her anxious life . |
| 3 | A loose end , Kirov reminded himself as he came close to the man . |
| 4 | I knew I had no one to love me and nothing to look forward to . |
| 5 | The undertaker selected four of them and they bent willingly to the coffin , easier in their minds about the embarrassments of grief , because now they had something they could do . |
| 6 | Ian , thanks ever so much , it 's not necessarily been an easy ride for you , but we 're glad to know you and we look forward to meeting you again . |
| 7 | Have you listened to nothing I have said to you since you came here to Malta ? |
| 8 | But his outrageous irreverence was a relief ; eventually she had to admit to herself that she looked forward to hearing what Lieutenant Woolley had done now . |
| 9 | She was breathlessly aware of him and she walked across to the fence that faced the field she could see from her room and stood there looking out into the distance . |
| 10 | Ask him if he intends always to be faithful , and you 've get a 99.9 per cent change of him saying yes . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll decide about that , Mr Clarke , ’ Jenna said grimly , standing and looking down at him until he got hastily to his feet . |
| 12 | He could see her shape through the frosted half-glass ; he did n't think that she 'd be able to see him but he stayed close to the wall , just in case . |
| 13 | The uncles and aunts presumably knew but Stephen himself had n't heard a word of him since he went away to college in London when he was eighteen . |
| 14 | She brushed past Penry , eluding the hand he put out to detain her as she ran outside to the car , deaf to his entreaties as she jumped in the car and started it up with a violent rev of the engine . |
| 15 | Suddenly she was grasped from behind and the sky swam all around her as she fell heavily to the ground , landing with Fernando half across her . |
| 16 | ‘ What in the devil 's name is that ? ’ he demanded , following her as she crossed quickly to the gate and moved out into the grounds . |
| 17 | I did n't answer him as we walked together to the door . |
| 18 | She stood up to walk stiffly around the desk , glaring at him as he stepped politely to one side and let her precede him from the room . |
| 19 | His empty words comforted him as he walked across to the ruins , a collection of snow-covered boulders . |
| 20 | She saw him as he listened attentively to Sir Anthony ; she caught his eye , waved at him across the sea of heads , abandoned him to the tide : he was an old friend of Otto Werner 's , whom he could seek out if in need of relief . |
| 21 | YAKOV TOLSTIKOV is among the favourites to win one of the big-money prizes in the ADT London Marathon on Sunday , but however much he makes he will struggle to spend it when he returns home to Siberia . |
| 22 | I hope you all enjoy yourselves and I look forward to having a good and informative seminar with you . |
| 23 | She could feel his bare legs , covered in wiry golden hairs , brushing against hers as he moved closer to her , his heart thudding wildly . |
| 24 | Thinking that was a dig at female priorities , she smiled but said nothing as they chugged slowly to a small jetty . |
| 25 | Creeping to the windows of the married quarters in which she was still living since her husband 's sudden and secret posting , she looked up to see a mass of twinkling red , green and white lights , as wave after wave of aircraft passed overhead with unceasing regularity , making the earth shake beneath them as they roared southwards to the English Channel . |
| 26 | As you inhale , think of your calves and tense them as you count slowly to five , holding onto the tension . |
| 27 | He became a huge favourite with pre-war fans , who loved his fiercely determined performances , and it was while Bob was playing for us that we came closest to clinching the Southern League championship , being denied on goal average alone by Swindon Town in 1913–14 . |