Example sentences of "to a [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reproachfully , Rosa dipped into the deep pot of olives and served a scoop of the waxy jade pebbles on to a dish and set it near Tommaso . |
| 2 | If you feel apprehensive on this , give a page of your notes to a friend and ask him to tell you which letters or words in your handwriting gave him difficulty in reading . |
| 3 | The winner must waive the normal six months ' grace afforded to a champion and defend it on a 50-50 purse basis when called upon . |
| 4 | It built to a crescendo and unnerved them . |
| 5 | The experiment consisted of presenting an unseen passage of text to a person and asking her to guess one letter at a time . |
| 6 | But it should be clear that while one or two methods may be the most important for attributing coins to a mint or dating them , almost any other consideration can be important , depending on its relevance or on the accidents of survival . |
| 7 | He commits to a budget and achieves it . |
| 8 | I mean , I might have had to shove the split match heads under Carol 's fingernails , or tie her to a tree and subject her to psychological warfare by , say , reading Hemingway aloud to her . |
| 9 | and this is really sad , and he told me mum that he 'd been to a hairdressers and done it . |
| 10 | Anthea moved to a mirror and smoothed her closely permed black hair before stepping forward with a smile on her lips . |
| 11 | ‘ Let's have a look , ’ said Lawler , marching to a window and opening it . |
| 12 | ‘ I got out a ball gown to lend to a neighbour and found it had been cheaply dry-cleaned , ’ she said . |
| 13 | It took four of them to lift him on to a trolley and take him away for observation , with the police riding shotgun at his side , and then things gradually returned to normal — or as normal as they could given the extraordinary circumstances . |
| 14 | Kathleen grabbed Amy and they lifted her on to a trolley and wheeled her into Resus . |
| 15 | Male birds compete for territories and mates , and any change to a song that makes them more effective in competition will be favoured by natural selection . |
| 16 | These were the harrowing scenes at Heathrow airport as the group of Russian orphans prepared to return home to a country that regards them as mentally retarded … just because they 're without parents.They 'd spent twelve happy weeks in the Malvern Hills , being cared for by local schools.And they were dreading going back to Russia . |
| 17 | ‘ I dare anyone in the Fund to point to a country and say it is much better off economically today because of a Fund programme , ’ says Budhoo . |
| 18 | Then we clad and ran off home then we went back mishchifing again we came to a boy and shoved he down in the grass and piched is sweet and then we ran off then I made a apple bom then I chudet it then we went home . |
| 19 | The minutes crawled like tired snails , but the ambulance arrived before Tom had returned from making his phone calls in the study , and with the compassionate yet businesslike speed that Belinda never ceased to admire , the paramedic ambulance officers slid Faye on to a stretcher and carried her to the waiting vehicle , where an intravenous line could be set up immediately . |
| 20 | Does the Prime Minister accept that we are pleased that the United Kingdom is signatory to a treaty that commits it to an ever closer union among European peoples , where decisions are to be taken as close to the citizens as possible ? |
| 21 | Crush them to a powder and boil them , then soak the ankle when the water 's cooled enough to bear . |
| 22 | Bella was very old now and would probably be glad of a rest , George considered , so he drew the pony to a halt and walked her off the road and on to the quarry floor . |
| 23 | PC margins have grown so slim that no one was incorporating them into PCs for multi media applications as there were no applications that could provide value to a user that bought them . |
| 24 | Much conscious fantasy is different ; we may ‘ tell a story ’ to ourselves ( or listen to a story and fantasise it as about ourselves ) ; and sometimes we may attempt an imagined resolution , through fantasy , of some aspect of our social situation . |
| 25 | A word grammatically related to a word that follows it , especially the noun or pronoun to which a relative pronoun is related . |
| 26 | He drew her to a stop and swung her round so he could see her face in the half-light . |
| 27 | As it prints ‘ larger than life ’ , it is very simple to transfer the design to a card and punch it out . |
| 28 | It came as something of a shock to the Poles to realise that the Kaszubians saw no difference between selling their land to a Pole or selling it to a German . |
| 29 | He waved the clerk to a seat and served him a cup of watered wine . |
| 30 | They could post him to a regiment and send him abroad just like that ! ’ |