Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are days when I sit down and my mind goes back to prison , when I 'd be looking out the window , thinking , I wish I was out there , you know , doing something . |
| 2 | And still my mind runs back to self . |
| 3 | But then there would be those chauvinistic enough to say if my actions led on to rape than I 'd ‘ have asked for it . ’ |
| 4 | My father come up to school , he come up there on a bike to see the schoolmaster and get me out to get a load of hay home . |
| 5 | When I remarked that this was a pity , since I was looking for a peat replacement to acidify limey soil , my man began detectably to back-pedal . |
| 6 | ‘ My daughter goes back to school this week after the half-term break and she really wants to know Penny is all right before she goes . |
| 7 | He was keen to tell everyone the Great News about my dad coming back to life to expose Christianity . |
| 8 | My thoughts came back to sea fishing at home : I 've always done quite well with lures in the sea , but it 's not exactly popular is it ? |
| 9 | and she said well my mother goes out to work , but we help . |
| 10 | Its taint reaches out to family life , where religion turns to rivalry , brotherly love becomes murder , and justice degenerates into blood-lust ( Genesis 4 ) . |
| 11 | In most developed countries the pharmaceutical industry is an important part of the economy and its products contribute directly to health gain . |
| 12 | Her eyes flashed swiftly to fitzAlan , only to recoil at the look of blazing fury and contempt he turned on her . |
| 13 | Paige allowed her gaze to drift out to sea . |
| 14 | ‘ An honest woman is above rubies , and an evil one — her feet go down to death , her steps take hold on hell . ’ |
| 15 | If anything she seemed even more voluble than usual , which Zen put down to embarrassment . |
| 16 | The woman carried a bouquet of dried violets , their petals faded almost to lilac . |
| 17 | More recently , Bloch 's work ( 1975 ) on political language and oratory has provided evidence of ways in which speech is formalised and is used for functions which Goody attributes solely to writing . |
| 18 | By defining retirement as coterminous with dependency , the ‘ structured dependency ’ authors inevitably see the trend towards earlier retirement as regrettable , but in fact it need not be so : this depends on the extent to which retirement leads subsequently to poverty in old age , and to discover this it is necessary to look at the other three main determinants of the financial status of the elderly . |
| 19 | Sun Microsystems Inc management estimates it is spending 10%-15% of its revenues moving over to Unix SVR4 : that must mean , that when the exercise is over , it will be rolling in cash . |
| 20 | Eleanor 's devotion to her husband amounted almost to veneration . |
| 21 | In 1985 a further Act was passed which went beyond controlling the operation of existing local governments , when the Greater London Council ( created in 1965 ) and metropolitan county councils ( created in 1974 ) were abolished and their responsibilities transferred either to borough/district councils or to joint authorities of various types . |
| 22 | For two days the children camped out in the hospital waiting-room as their father clung on to life . |
| 23 | It looked surprised for a moment , and then toppled over and shattered into gravel ( trolls being silicaceous lifeforms , their bodies reverted instantly to stone at the moment of death ) . |
| 24 | He would have preferred it had their arguments led directly to immaterialism , and showed not merely that we do not know what qualities material objects have , but indeed that they have none , or even that there are no such objects . |
| 25 | Many grandmothers who lived with their grandchildren helped look after them , made their clothes , got them up for school , minded them while their mothers went out to work : ‘ I thought of my grandmother even more so than my mother cos she was always there , you see . |
| 26 | She had not the least idea what was going on , and she was smiling into the night in enquiry and wonder , her brows arched halfway to laughter , her lips parted in a whimsical welcome to whatever might be pending . |
| 27 | The author was Mary Shelley , wife of the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley , but very little of her life comes back to memory . |
| 28 | Palmerston received a letter from T. L. Donaldson ( 1795–1885 ) asking to be a competitor , which Palmerston passed on to Hall . |
| 29 | For the married couples the heartache would be centred round their children going off to boarding school , especially when they left home for the first time . |
| 30 | Her surprise turned rapidly to wariness when she saw on his desk a number of daily papers , all with photographs of her and Ace in them . |