Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the tenderest of smiles , he proferred my watch to me in an open palm . |
| 2 | And certainly from my submission to you in the Selby district , I have shown that er the the plan which was enclosed with the written evidence . |
| 3 | After delivering my message to him under a plate on his dinner tray she had gone outside to sit under the tree in the warm evening air . |
| 4 | I shut my eyes and hold my lace to hers for a long time . |
| 5 | If you are in temporary accommodation and do not accept the tenancy , this provision will cease as the council , by making a reasonable offer of permanent accommodation , will have discharged its responsibility to you under the provisions of the Housing Act 1985 , Part III and you will have to make your own arrangements for housing yourself and your family . |
| 6 | It gave him a qualm to realise that a large part of his need to see her again stemmed from her usefulness to him as a go between . |
| 7 | She turned to him , pressing her mouth to his in a long , drugging kiss , while her hands slid tantalisingly over his hips in a blatant invitation . |
| 8 | Her figure , her posture , her attitude to him as a man , all suggested sexual awareness but she had a waspish tongue . |
| 9 | But if she wants to get her own food , or offers her help to you with the family cooking , all this will have to be sorted out very carefully . |
| 10 | Kneeling across him , she joined her body to his with a little gasp until he sat and touched his mouth to hers . |
| 11 | Her father would groan sleepily as she hurried her kiss to him through the smell of cigars on his night 's breath . |
| 12 | The truth acquired a logic and an ordinariness , until in the end her blindness to it in the past became puzzling to comprehend . |
| 13 | She had first given her life to Him as a child , at the mercy seat in the local corps . |
| 14 | ’ … and , so I will enjoy her this night before explaining her position to her in the morning . |
| 15 | It is concealed down a narrow alley linking Hatton Garden with Ely Court but patrons have been finding their way to it since the sixteenth century . |
| 16 | She raised her face to him like a shy virgin , and he kissed her passionately on the lips while his fingers busily freed her of her underwear . |
| 17 | By his coming to us as a human being and by his suffering , dying and rising for us , our lives have meaning and hope . |
| 18 | Collectors would give anything for the chance to hear him project his art to us from the clarity of a recording studio . |
| 19 | The man sitting with his back to her at the table looked round . |
| 20 | The place smelt of oil , paint , damp and slow failure , and Marriage himself sat with his back to it in the cold sunshine , looking across to the willows and alders of the far bank and the fields beyond . |
| 21 | Here , ’ he held out his hand to her with a little smile , ‘ take my hand to show you forgive me for alarming you . ’ |
| 22 | Brooks attended to every detail of his churches and Mackmurdo later acknowledged his debt to him as an exemplar of methodical thoroughness . |
| 23 | I do n't know your name , but I want to thank you for your kindness to me on the night I left Weatherbury . |
| 24 | Send to Alternatively , you can dictate your letter to us over the telephone . |
| 25 | Alternatively , you can dictate your letter to us over the telephone . |