Example sentences of "[adv prt] [pos pn] [noun pl] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I also pass on my thanks to your master for providing such a great venue for my business lunches . |
| 2 | Five grandfathers are less favourably remembered as drunkards : at least two passed down their habits to their sons — ‘ dad had a poor bringing up ’ — while a third son was provoked into signing the teetotal pledge . |
| 3 | Down went his fingers , down her arms to her elbows , cupping them in his palms , feeling the smoothness , while all the time his mouth explored the nape of her neck , the small bones down her spine to the sensitive areas of her upper back . |
| 4 | She eased down his pants to his ankles , and she saw that his cock was already as stiff as a poker . |
| 5 | So far , however , the crofters in the Western Isles have preferred to purchase only the house sites and pass on their rights to their families , although in other areas where the land is better there has been greater interest in purchasing whole crofts . |
| 6 | Instead , she will hand over her sons to their nanny and detectives on Christmas Eve , for delivery , with their presents , to Sandringham . |
| 7 | She suggests that the ‘ board ’ money which young people paid for living in the parental household was seen as an exchange , especially for daughters : they handed over their wages to their mothers and in exchange their mothers equipped them to enable them to go into service . |
| 8 | When the heir had done homage to the king , it was usual for the Justice of the Forest , on receipt of the appropriate writ , to take from him security for the payment of relief , and then to give him seisin of his Forest bailiwick ; the king 's escheator was ordered at the same time to hand over his lands to him , those appurtenant to his forestership , and whatever others he might hold in chief by other service . |
| 9 | Federal Foreign Minister , Budimir Loncar , also subject of the no confidence vote , officially handed in his resignation on Dec. 11 , and handed over his duties to his deputy , Milivoje Maksic . |
| 10 | Later , IFAR [ International Foundation for Art Research ] was formed and we turned over our files to them . |
| 11 | Dragging the pad towards him he found a clean page and wrote : Dear Harsnet , I know you never answer my letters or return my calls , and I know that you handed over your notes to me on the understanding that I could do what I liked with them and not bother you , but I have to say that while there is much in them that I admire , as I will always admire much in you , no matter what , there is also much in them that seems to me to be puerile and , to put it mildly , bigoted . |
| 12 | She 's full of sly ways and has yet to work off her debts to me . ’ |
| 13 | She put up her arms to him and he began to make love to her very gently and slowly . |
| 14 | His grip tightened and his evident emotion made her lift up her fingers to his lips . |
| 15 | At the same time as he stood up he slid his hands beneath her skirts and let them rise up her legs to her thighs , his face quite wickedly triumphant at his own cunning . |
| 16 | In the warmth of the afternoon sunshine they took off their jackets and , hitching up their skirts to their knees , waded out into the water . |
| 17 | He was a hippie when hippiedom was in fashion : he grew his hair long and then ( when people began to give up their seats to him on buses , under the impression that he was a pregnant girl ) he grew a straggly beard as a declaration of sex . |
| 18 | All her life men had given up their seats to her , at point-to-points and tennis matches , their window seats in aircraft , their centrally positioned armchairs in balconies overlooking royal routes . |
| 19 | He raised up his arms to her in a flurry of lace . |
| 20 | A trooper to his left threw up his hands to his face , crying out . |
| 21 | Lucien had unconsciously drawn up his hands to his chest . |
| 22 | The boy gave a faint , startled cry , and fell back a pace , putting up his hands to his bleeding cheek . |
| 23 | So I bent down to clear it and gradually it crept up me legs to me knees , What 's the matter lad ? |
| 24 | I held out my hands to them , and kissed each of them in turn . |
| 25 | I held out my hands to my father as he came into the room , and he took me in his arms . |
| 26 | She had talked of a sex scene when she was on Wogan , but he assumed it would be something more romantic — a magnolia bud of a tit peeping from beneath bed linen as she held out her arms to her lover and the lights went down at the end of the play . |
| 27 | She held out her arms to him … |
| 28 | She turned back to Johnny , impatient for him now , and stretched out her arms to him . |
| 29 | ‘ You must know why I have come , Neil , ’ she said , and she held out her arms to him . |
| 30 | ‘ Benedict ! ’ she cried , and did not know that she stretched out her arms to him . |