Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] to [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked towards the chateau entrance and saw Queen Poison , dreadful as an army in battle array , sweep towards me across the lowered drawbridge , arms extended as if she wished to clasp me to her deceitful bosom . |
| 2 | Such rituals and procedures are designed to restore them to their proper place within the people of God and within the inner circle of his blessing . |
| 3 | Including part-time workers , the LPU said almost 10million people were low paid and pay rises of 25.8 per cent would be needed to restore them to their relative position in 1979 . |
| 4 | The BACKUP and RESTORE programs are opposite to each other , one will backup your programs to floppy disks and the other allows you to restore them to your hard drive . |
| 5 | Second , to better understand such ideas as ‘ press freedom ’ , one needs to relate them to their original context . |
| 6 | Mrs Linley , 36 , said : ‘ The only time they can go out is if I am around to escort them to our front garden . ’ |
| 7 | He found the King 's strength and confidence increasing and he had no doubts about his fitness to rule ; but the King was still anxious for time in which to adjust himself to his new station and duties . |
| 8 | He slipped a loop around one of her wrists , and passed it under the table to secure it to her other wrist . |
| 9 | A director is only ‘ God 's usher ’ to lead us to our real Director . |
| 10 | We 've been looking for McCloy to lead us to his hired assassin . |
| 11 | At the moment , experts are not very helpful , since they tend to disagree among themselves , or to hedge their conclusions around with so many qualifications that parents do n't know how to apply them to their individual child . |
| 12 | He was going to walk her to her other job in the bar , across the Jardin du Luxembourg ; perhaps they 'd sit in the late sunshine , near the thin young naked girl who looked exposed and hence signified Truth , the inscription said . |
| 13 | Like many players of that era , Jack 's footballing career was badly restricted by the war , but he was available to help us to our regional championship of the 3rd Division South in the first half of 1945–46 while , upon the resumption of League Football in 1946–47 , he shone as a half-back of real quality in a none too great Palace team and his performances quickly drew attention from several 1st Division sides . |
| 14 | My Lords erm I would only hope that I would be able to do something to my Noble Friend in trying to persuade him that it is n't all that bad erm My Lords I do agree with him though when you I , I think that I 'd be first of all w were to tell him that er not that he would n't be surprised that I thought that his amendment was n't actually necessary , but I do understand his concern , I mean he tries to find his way through the legislation . |
| 15 | Now you may want to leave everything to your surviving spouse and then on to the children , that 's natural . |
| 16 | With reckless abandon , she pressured herself to him , striving to mould herself to his tough maleness . |
| 17 | At last , with greasy fingers , she managed to guide him to her saturated hole , and he penetrated her as easily as her own fingers did when she masturbated . |
| 18 | In his heart Gaveston knew that young Edward quite liked the clerk ; admired the man 's fidelity and unwillingness to criticise him to his terrible father . |
| 19 | If one decides to give away £5m to encourage the arts , I do not think that it is a very sensible way to give it to my noble friend Lord Archer , who is a very rich man already , and who gets £6,000 a year out of the pockets of taxpayers who are very much poorer than he is . ’ |
| 20 | She was suffering dreadfully from morning sickness , she was haunted by Camilla Parker-Bowles and she was desperately trying to accommodate herself to her new position and new family . |
| 21 | Formerly a private hotel , it has needed only a little work to convert it to its new use . |
| 22 | Within moments I had decided to strip her to her expensive banker 's underclothing , lash her to a Quattrocento day-bed with fur-lined leather manacles , and whip her with unimaginable delicacy until she handed over a full power of attorney and yielded herself totally in a frenzy of self-abnegation . |
| 23 | Such competitions kept the country stations on their toes , provided the service with valuable publicity , and gave to the travelling public a pleasing and uplifting sight to welcome them to their rural destination , the ideal blending of technology and nature . |
| 24 | It is a pleasure to welcome you to our Open Day . |
| 25 | She was left to her own devices when she arrived , no-one from the royal family least of all her future husband , thinking it necessary to welcome her to her new world . |
| 26 | In this campaign too — the battle of the River Ebro — the government forces had the initial advantage of surprise , but their much depleted physical and military strength made them unable to turn it to their permanent advantage and they were eventually pushed back to their original positions . |
| 27 | Now it 's hoped to restore it to its unfinished state and open a unique college for stonemasons . |
| 28 | The main point I want to make is that the only justification for treating the sick and injured wild animal is to be able eventually to restore it to its wild existence . |
| 29 | One coach only needs a small amount of work to restore it to its original condition , but the other requires extensive work . |
| 30 | I 'm sure it 's previously been reported stolen , so we 'll try to restore it to its rightful owner . |