Example sentences of "[pron] to [pron] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was in the courtyard , unfastening a pair of skis , his jet-black ski-suit moulding itself to his body in a way that drew her glance whether she liked it or not . |
| 2 | Manager Charlton will monitor the progress and fitness of his three injured players before deciding whether to add them to his squad at a later date . |
| 3 | He seems to summon them to his face with a slow flick of the wrist . |
| 4 | Then he took them to his study for a more serious talk . |
| 5 | She took him to her home in a middle-class London suburb and her mother disapproved . |
| 6 | The man , in his 20s , clung to an overhanging tree when his damaged craft was in danger of carrying him to his death over a raging weir . |
| 7 | Last week the campus at Cambridge , Massachusetts , was in uproar as relatives launched a medical malpractice and wrongful death legal action , claiming that his therapist for four years , Dr Margaret Bean-Bayog , 20 years his senior , drove him to his death after a sado-masochistic seduction . |
| 8 | Somebody had pushed him to his death from a window in Oxford in 1968 and , twenty years later , Harry was pursuing the consequences . |
| 9 | He spent only a few hours in prison ; but when he was released the heads of all the foreign missions in London ( except that of Sweden , which was then at war with Russia ) accompanied him to his house in a demonstration of solidarity and next morning visited him to promise their support . |
| 10 | All the magic had died from it , and it was but a husk of itself ; for all my art , it could tell me only one thing — that no one could restore it to its place except a child not yet born , and born only for that task . |
| 11 | She withdrew the photo abruptly and returned it to its place on a table . |
| 12 | She lugged it to her studio in a wheelbarrow . |
| 13 | Names and faces , phrases and vivid little pictures presented themselves to his mind in a constant succession of changing patterns like the images in a kaleidoscope . |
| 14 | Very soon the computer world which we associate with work , word processors and video games will start connecting us to our TV in a relationship we 've never had before . |