Example sentences of "to the [noun sg] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would also leave Lewis as possibly a minor player in the world heavyweight scene which could be returning to the chaos that surrounded it before Mike Tyson brutally united sports richest prize . |
| 2 | The ITC will closely monitor response to the ad but says it will be difficult to edit out offending elements . |
| 3 | My worst fear was that one day she would come to the forge and see me working as a common blacksmith , with black face and hands . |
| 4 | The woman darted to the blackboard and told her : ‘ Your uncle made that . ’ |
| 5 | He lurched up to the blackboard and knocked it flying . |
| 6 | Men and women carried their own children on their shoulders to the church and threw them into a common pit . |
| 7 | The same writer also states : " The Bishop of Rochester remained at Hailing and Trottescliffe , where he conferred orders in both places and at certain intervals , " he continues , " this mortality swept away so vast a multitude of both sexes that none could be found to carry the corpses to the grave , men and women bore their own offspring to the Church and cast them into a common pit , and from these pits came such a great stench that hardly anyone dared cross the cemeteries . " |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , of course I did — and I can pop down to the church and see you come out , ’ she offered impulsively , which thankfully seemed to satisfy the other girl . |
| 9 | ‘ Afterwards I 'll go to the church and meet you there . ’ |
| 10 | So what you do as a trainer in a circus you try and encourage the animal to want to the act and to reinforce it for so doing and that may be food , it may be actually just affection for the people who are training and that 's what a trainer wants to try and . |
| 11 | The effect is of a theatre , and the topmost gallery , which it makes every sense in a church to call ‘ the gods ’ , is so close to the ceiling as to make you ask how comfortable it might be up there during mass . |
| 12 | Behind him ! the dark and diminutive Miranda rolled her dark eyes to the ceiling and shook her head . |
| 13 | He climbed to the upper level , and from the top of the stairs he could see a wide slice of moonlight telling him that he 'd not only forgotten to lock the door behind them , in his haste he 'd neglected even to close it ; he crossed the decking and closed it now , switching the key from the outside to the inside and turning it in the lock . |
| 14 | Turn the right side ( smooth side of knitting ) to the inside and fold it so the two side edges of the knitting can be sewn together to make a tube . |
| 15 | I ran through the fields , laid low for about two hours , then I made my way to the motorway and hitched it to Birmingham . |
| 16 | His major territorial acquisition , the duchy of Lancaster estates in the north west , was already staffed by royal servants who would now look to the duke while retaining their links with the crown . |
| 17 | His major territorial acquisition , the duchy of Lancaster estates in the north west , was already staffed by royal servants who would now look to the duke while retaining their links with the crown . |
| 18 | If we shoot a rocket to the moon and bring it back ten days later we can calculate before the start , within a matter of seconds and a few hundred yards , just how long it will take and where it will land , provided always that in the course of the proceedings there is no human error . |
| 19 | Foot of the bed , nearer sorry , nearer the foot of the , at the side but near to the foot or does it ? |
| 20 | This approach need not replace traditional literary criticism : rather , it should be viewed as a step that may lead naturally , where appropriate , into the development of objective analytical skills as pupils learn to reflect on their own writing — and on the creative process itself — in relation to the text that inspired it . |
| 21 | Despite the wind , the cross that followed was so accurate and inviting that Chris Malkin was able to rise to the ball and head it out of the reach of the sprawling Paul Heald to register his 10th goal of the season . |
| 22 | Andrew Chubb , prosecuting , claimed Blissett elbowed Uzzell after the defender beat him to the ball and headed it away . |
| 23 | Next he led the spinnaker sheets aft to the cockpit and made them fast to the stern cleats with plenty of slack . |
| 24 | He quoted a passage from the Psalms in which God speaks to the Messiah and sets him at his right hand until all enemies have been overcome . |
| 25 | Margaret Ramsay explores the problems stress can bring to the workplace and suggests what a company needs to be checking out . |
| 26 | From here we descend to the crypt and find ourselves surrounded by the 11C remains of the Romanesque basilica . |
| 27 | We just clear them on to the runway and tell them what other traffic we expect . |
| 28 | Miss Honey said to the class , ‘ I think you 'd all better go out to the playground and amuse yourselves until the next lesson . ’ |
| 29 | council who do that and er , they 're quite happy to take you round all the er , take you down to the incinerator and see what happens , where all your different bits and pieces go . |
| 30 | Would you wish me to write to the Council and ask them what 's going on ? |