Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I heard from Liz that your boss was starting to talk about wedding bells I swiftly moved all my operations back to London . ’ |
| 2 | It was late at night and I decided , I was just sort of talking I 'd say , I ca n't get rid of this headache , and I do n't know what I 'm gon na do , I do n't whether I should just not worry about it cos I 'm not that old , and I was really pouring my heart out to him , and he turns round and he says , yeah , you need a new clutch you really need a new clutch . |
| 3 | ‘ I went on to a party in Cambridge after I 'd been catching swifts , and in the middle of the party a horrible large green thing , a flightless parasitic fly , found on swifts , crawled crabwise out of my hair on to my dinner jacket — it was a dinner jacket sort of party . |
| 4 | I will grow my hair out to its natural colour until it falls long and lank about my shoulders , allow my skin to fade to a startling winter white . |
| 5 | ‘ But so are you , ’ I protested , really astonished because he had been so reasonable about my activities up to now . |
| 6 | Will you commute or should I move my base down to London ? ’ |
| 7 | And God was very good to me there , I was n't the brightest in the year and I had to work very hard , but God always was with me as I always passed my exams much to my surprise . |
| 8 | I let the money slip through my fingers on to the floor . |
| 9 | I took my skis back to the shop next morning , realising that perhaps the marginal snowbridges and crevasses of the Argentiere glacier were not an ideal nursery . |
| 10 | yeah it 's good if he caddies for me cos if he 's playing by shot he goes , ee crap , bastard , so I think fuck you and er stiff my necks on to it |
| 11 | Now I really love dressing up and I 've given all my trainers away to my brother . |
| 12 | It appears from Jean Piaget 's child psychology that perception has been inseparable from simulation right from the start , and that instead of learning to project my inwardness on to other persons I had to unlearn the habit of projecting it on to the rising sun or a bouncing ball . |
| 13 | I cast my mind back to the South Coast of England . |
| 14 | This story took my mind back to a survey on driving that was published a while ago on the differences between men and women behind the wheel . |
| 15 | I cast my mind back to our excited departure from Gatwick airport . |
| 16 | I must get my mind back to the here and now . |
| 17 | And the Substitute had better be with me — tell Bacci he can take my car down to Florence , I do n't really need him and the Substitute can take me back with him … |
| 18 | I 'm a great believer in it , I , I park my car close to that and find it a most convenient way of travelling around . |
| 19 | If I shifted my weight on to the shoulder these mugs had been using as a football , the pain took away my thoughts from the throbbing ache in my head . |
| 20 | I shifted my weight on to my other foot , looked around the landing and up the stairs , half-expecting to see my father leaning over the banister rail , or to see his shadow on the wall of the landing above , where he thought he could hide and listen to my phone calls without me knowing . |
| 21 | so she said I , I went in and I said to Geraldine I 'm going I owe you any bloody money take the bugger out me wages , she says I ai n't having people that I like being stabbed like that by people like that , she said she ai n't worth the salt of the earth , she 's the salt of the earth she said with people like that pointing to Jenny and Jane , no way , she said and I 'm going with my mates , I turned round and the next thing Janet and Janet and Barbara in there , when we got up the pub at twelve o'clock , course we were all having sandwiches me and Pam got the , me and er Barb got there , then Pam come in then a few more come and erm then the plumber and all that come in with them and I said oh girls we never clocked out , so I said oh well I 'm gon na have to take my key back to Steve , burst out laughing , so I said oh no I said why do n't we have a key cracking competition so of course that 's what we did we all took our keys out of our bag and we went ready for she 's a jolly good ready , steady , fellow , for she 's go and we cracked these ruddy keys and shoved them up in the air |
| 22 | In the soft evening light , I retraced my steps back to town , soothed by the songs of blackbirds and chaffinches . |
| 23 | My thanks also to Sandra Burslem and Sue Thorne who kindly lent me their word processor . |
| 24 | I would like to extend my thanks also to the officers who have worked er very , very hard er both sides of the Christmas . |
| 25 | I woke to manoeuvre a rock under the groundsheet , then to put cream on my burning ears , later to pull my knees up to my chin to get warm , then to eat some dates , and finally when I was called out by diarrhoea . |
| 26 | My research up to 1970 was in cosmology , the study of the universe on a large scale . |
| 27 | As I waited at the King 's Stairs for my boat back to Venturous I was approached by two very splendidly attired and heavily braided Merchant Service Officers whom I had noticed staring at me curiously during the reception . |
| 28 | I coughed and spluttered and gagged a few times , then fell back into Jamie 's arms , bringing my legs up to my chin to ease the ache in my stomach muscles . |
| 29 | I I I lift my legs up to my head . |
| 30 | ‘ I have n't worked for my degree just to be handed a cosy role in the family firm ! |