Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emily watched him go and then , rising , she threw her napkin down furiously on to the table . |
| 2 | One of them was that the nurse , robbed of her pleasure in subduing the hair , turned her savagery more directly on to Harriet and once in a temper broke both of her charge 's thumbs when she was forcing her into a new pair of white kid gloves for Sunday School . |
| 3 | also thought that the media had , in recent years , turned their attention much more strongly to the downside environmental impact of coal , especially to its producing large amounts of carbon dioxide which could well be changing the earth 's climate in undesirable ways . |
| 4 | The two-lane road was winding its way sometimes so close to the sparkling sea that Gina felt she could lean out of the window and dabble her hand in it . |
| 5 | The move brought his mouth much too close to hers , and he took advantage of that fact before she had time to even consider evasive action . |
| 6 | He 's actually been out of his armchair today long enough to erm , spend ten minutes putting a washer on the hand basin in the loo . |
| 7 | At this point cast your mind ahead once again to your ideal farm ( in , let us say , Year 4 , to be optimistic ) with crops and livestock nicely balanced to suit the land potential . |