Example sentences of "[adv] to [pron] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The top was of gleaming steel which Mrs Curdle rubbed up daily with emery paper , hissing gently to herself like a groom to a horse , as her busy hand slid back and forth across the satin of the surface . |
| 2 | Other birds we saw around Nesseby included dunlin , familiar enough to me as a breeding wader of the Shetland hills . |
| 3 | In Dennant v. Skinner ( 1948 K.B. ) the buyer had a van knocked down to him at an auction . |
| 4 | The connotations of this in the creation of manhood were made clear by Baden Powell , founder of the Scout movement , who observed that masturbation checks the semen from getting its full chance of making the strong , manly man : ‘ You are throwing away the seed that has been handed down to you as a trust instead of keeping it and ripening it for bringing a son to you later on . ’ |
| 5 | The , if any of the ladies would like to go down to the village or anybody , the church is open and I think there 's somebody there who would welcome you to show you round the church down in the village which , I know , during the war years at different times , quite a lot of you chaps did attend and er so we do hope you will see and , and of course later on I hope you 'll be coming down to mine for a cup of tea . |
| 6 | just a few weeks before her death he had written fondly to her on a postcard from Florence ( where the Sadler 's Wells Ballet went for the Maggio Musicale festival ) that she ‘ would love it so . |
| 7 | But there was a part of her that still would n't give in to him without a fight . |
| 8 | I want you to send them in to me , and here 's where er it becomes a little bit different from other competitions , I want you to send them in to me on a Christmas card please . |
| 9 | Unlike the others , sleep did not come easily to her before a job . |
| 10 | You got right through to me in a way nobody has ever done before . |
| 11 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 12 | Then Ted can work out a market price and phone it through to you in a day or so . |
| 13 | But mostly I imagined you asleep , left utterly to yourself in a situation where my own absence from your life did not matter : |
| 14 | ‘ Garry and Maeve intend to take their time in getting it over to him in a way he will understand , ’ said 72-year-old Luise , of Milton Keynes , Bucks , yesterday . |
| 15 | Why wo n't you come over to us for a week , or even for a night ? " |
| 16 | Get your x-rays done and they 'll send the results over to us in a week . |
| 17 | A BABY had lunch passed outside to her through a letterbox after bailiffs repossessed her family 's rented house . |
| 18 | Close to it at a March meeting in 1585 accusations of a theft of some Scottish spurs and counter-accusations of ‘ a pretended matter beforehand ’ began to fly to and fro , until without warning someone on the Scottish side shot and killed Russell . |
| 19 | He had not yet abandoned the idea of finding a woman who would commit herself totally to him as a life partner . |
| 20 | And it brought home to me with a rush something which had been slowly dawning on me ever since I joined the Air Force ; that I had been spoiled for quite a long time now . |
| 21 | In mounting dismay she peered into the gloom , the invidious nature of her position coming home to her with a vengeance . |
| 22 | Now , his security escort was dishing him up to her on a plate . |
| 23 | She walked up to them with a kind of swagger . |
| 24 | There was no sign of Madra , Riven noticed with a pang , and the beer was brought up to them by a serving maid he did not know . |
| 25 | He had recovered his composure , and faced up to me with a chill warmth . |
| 26 | In the next block a man I had never seen before rushed up to me with a jug . |
| 27 | A THEATRICAL lady doctor tripped up to me at a party in Covent Garden this week and told me she had phoned a film producer friend and asked how he was . |
| 28 | ‘ Just a minute , ’ wobbled the blue chins as he came looming up to me like an ocean liner in a fog . |
| 29 | Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant . |
| 30 | Claudia shivered ; her twin was n't alone in her fear , but Dana would n't be able to stand up to him for a moment . |