Example sentences of "to [pos pn] [noun pl] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she had dragged herself to her feet again and watched as the man called Duvall had sadistically begun to kill the boy who had protected her . |
| 2 | The corset buyer got to her feet grimly and picked up the glass of drinking water in front of her . |
| 3 | He held the glass to her lips again and watched her while she drank . |
| 4 | ‘ People saw politics as adding to their problems rather than solving them . |
| 5 | Punishment would consequently also dwindle in importance as the division of labour progresses , and punitive law be replaced by ‘ restitutive law ’ which requires lawbreakers to make reparation to their victims rather than suffer retributive punishment . |
| 6 | As a thought struck him he dropped on to his hunkers again and whispered quickly , ‘ They could come in by the far gate and force their way into the back of the crees : they 're only planked . ’ |
| 7 | He got to his feet again and walked back across Goughdale , pausing at each ruin of a mine building to check if any more entrances to the underground workings remained unblocked . |
| 8 | He pushed himself back up on to his feet again and started to stumble across the sand to the village . |
| 9 | Plummer got to his feet immediately and walked through into the sitting room to answer it . |
| 10 | Howard thinks to himself that he must write to his children tonight and tell them that he has seen his first angels . |
| 11 | In this respect , many of us in fact reform and bend English to our needs rather than allow that language to impose itself on our realities . |