Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [pron] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she ran down the driveway of the semi-detached house , a shot was fired from an upstairs front bedroom and she fell to the ground . |
| 2 | We always march in the parade on Armistice Sunday and this year erm I picked my poppy wreath up from the vic from vicarage and I said to the Vicar , you do n't mind if I wind some white poppies in this one do you , because it was the Earl Hague poppy you know . |
| 3 | She picked it up , misjudged its weight and it fell to the floor with a thud . |
| 4 | There was all this unstated sexual intention and we went to the toilets at Finchley Road tube station and I did n't know what was going to happen . |
| 5 | the the two brothers that went away and they were driving a car and one said to the other , watch what you 're doing and the other said to him , but I 'm not driving so . |
| 6 | Have one of those things in the car and you speak to the R A C or the A A |
| 7 | The room was rippling with the sounds of their scuffle as they fought in bitter silence , knocking into wooden furniture , she trying to get away , he trying to get her to the bed until they fell against a nightstand and it crashed to the floor . |
| 8 | It is this point which was recognised in the Government 's review and which led to the intention to phase out drift-netting . |
| 9 | When two strangers are standing shivering at a bus-stop in an icy wind and one turns to the other and says ‘ My goodness , it 's cold ’ , it is difficult to suppose that the primary intention of the speaker is to convey information . |
| 10 | George 's face registered total disbelief and he turned to the telephone . |
| 11 | ‘ But there must be a point … when you 've hosed off all the muck and the glaze and the bits of overpainting and your musks of Araby have done their work and you get to the point when you know that what you see before you is what the chap would have seen before him when he stopped painting all those centuries ago . |
| 12 | The mortally wounded Aenarion clambered into the saddle of his dying dragon and they took to the air on their last flight . |
| 13 | I feel sorry for the little girl and I suggest to the writer that she consoles her daughter by telling her that the vile custom of killing wild animals for fun is on the way out , that almost all british people feel as she does , and are determined to end such cruelty , and that she can help to bring about its end by supporting the League Against Cruel Sports and talking about the work they do to her schoolfriends . |
| 14 | We are responsible for setting the overall budget for the Video and for making any decisions which affect this budget and which relate to the educational purpose of the Video as set out in Schedule A. We have the right to be present at any or all of the stages of production , shooting and editing in order to fulfill these responsibilities . |
| 15 | We are responsible for setting the overall budget for the Video and for making any decisions which affect this budget and which relate to the educational purpose of the Video as set out in Schedule A. We have the right to be present at any or all of the stages of production , shooting and editing in order to fulfill these responsibilities . |
| 16 | We are responsible for setting the overall budget for the Video and for making any decisions which affect this budget and which relate to the educational purpose of the Video as set out in Schedule A. We have the right to be present at any or all of the stages of production , shooting and editing in order to fulfill these responsibilities . |
| 17 | Duncan , quietly amused by the whole situation , sat in the front with the driver and they drove to the hotel . |
| 18 | The meeting is over within an hour and we return to the camp . |
| 19 | I think we 'd find Mr Churchill that it it 's rather more complex than that and and the requirements for delivering a nuclear weapon and you refer to the possibility of C A S O M being nuclear capable , one has to be fairly careful quite a , there 's a degree of difference between a missile needed to do the two jobs and I think it would be rather more than wiring which would be er at issue here , there 's the payload and all the rest of it which I suspect would cause very severe problems with that . |
| 20 | One day , there was no package and he said to the trainer , ‘ Where 's the doin 's ? |
| 21 | ‘ Deux Armagnacs , s'il vous plaît ’ said Jay to timmortalshe waiter and they strolled to the table outside the hotel . |
| 22 | Other regions of Scotland were to follow that lead and it led to the formation of the the Scottish Golf Union which , today , has 16 member areas . |
| 23 | Because Sister Wilson had spent much of her life nursing the sick and the poor , she had their confidence and they flocked to the hospital . |
| 24 | I was lucky because we heard that the Government was encouraging women 's employment , so my husband and I went to the Prime Minister 's residence with an application . |
| 25 | Luke , Gusto and I race to the beach and into the sea . |
| 26 | ‘ That first night of Luxembourg , when she turned that marvellous duet into a slapstick comedy routine and I complained to the Direktor about it — you knew I complained about what she had done to the duet , did n't you , Ingrid ? ’ |
| 27 | The scenario was that there was this normal , everyday family being filmed in their home at their most private moments and , in one scene , where a young boy is being pressurised into getting married , they all leave the room and he turns to the camera and says something like ‘ I 've got to be careful here . |
| 28 | ‘ I work with women all day and I go to the pub to get away from them ’ … |
| 29 | He hit her hard across the head and she fell to the ground crying loudly . |
| 30 | But the Tibetan had no strength for revenge : the blood had drained from his head and he slumped to the ground , clutching his leg . |