Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her weight returned to normal but she began to vomit regularly to keep it stable . |
| 2 | But it was quite a while before her heartbeat returned to normal and she began to feel calm again . |
| 3 | Slowly her heartbeat returned to normal , but her limbs remained heavy with satiation . |
| 4 | This , in his view has resulted in a marked difference in the attitude with which his new fourth year pupils approach their work compared to previous years . |
| 5 | Some of the devices observed by conversation analysts — pausing , overlapping , drawing in breath — are of their nature limited to spoken discourse ; yet what they effect , the alternation of one point of view with another , and thus the mutual construction of a discourse , is far more widely applicable . |
| 6 | The water boatman , on the other hand , has receptors in the lower part of its eye tuned to polarised light . |
| 7 | With its population reduced to little over a tenth of pre-plague levels , many villages were abandoned , and much of the Empire became wasteland . |
| 8 | Is its impact confined to final year courses , or diffused through the whole curriculum ? |
| 9 | She loved few people , but those very much , and her love extended to inanimate objects which ( I think ) she much preferred to animals . |
| 10 | She chuckled and her voice returned to normal . |
| 11 | Colour characterised the displays , with Taverham and Drayton members using the multi-coloured ribbons bought in memory of Kathleen Greenwood in ‘ Over the Rainbow ’ , Mary Fox 's girls in assorted bright leotards in their travelling item , and equipped with pink hoops ( painted by a Medau husband ) in their second item , and Marlene McGee 's team in black with a touch of silver at the wrist for their item performed to ethnic music . |
| 12 | Her frown changed to open-mouthed astonishment , her exasperation to rage as he drove slickly into the space — her space , and Maggie reacted completely in character . |
| 13 | Slowly , her pulse returned to normal . |
| 14 | His body tilted to horizontal , legs and arms hanging like a spider from a strand . |
| 15 | In the 1630s his attention shifted to religious topics . |
| 16 | His career plunged to humiliating depths when he engaged in ‘ boxer v. wrestler ’ bouts and even consented to making a fully fledged comeback in a boxing promotion at Peterborough ( which was not licensed by the BBBC ) at the age of 35 ( Birtley , 1976 , p.133 ) . |
| 17 | But his pulse returned to normal by the end of April , and at the beginning of May he returned home to Carlyle Mansions . |
| 18 | She wrote , with an unaccustomed fluency , which made her sister wonder if the words had been thought up by her alone , that : — it would not be good for Oreste to leave here at this moment since he has been ill and though he is making a good recovery the doctor who you can be sure I was quick to call and no expense being spared but your money put to good use has said it would injure his general well-being to travel in his weakened state . |