Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm keeping my head swivelling from side to side to see if I can spot a space |
| 2 | I felt my head shaking from side to side . |
| 3 | While still in hospital I decided to pass my knowledge gleaned through stupidity to other people . |
| 4 | My speciality shifted from building to wading through the Bunyala swamps with wellies and a rucksack on my back . |
| 5 | If you ca n't hear me at the back because my voice drops from time to time then shout away because I 'm not always aware of how well it carries . |
| 6 | So when I 'd picked myself up from the floor , my arm bruised from shoulder to wrist , I thought ‘ I 'll show the buggers . ’ |
| 7 | The two universities in Northern Ireland are pooling their expertise to look for solutions to the crisis . |
| 8 | The prototype APT will resume its trial runs from London to Glasgow ‘ in the near future ’ . |
| 9 | Even indifferent lawyers may be kept going by their clerk arranging for briefs to be passed to them from dud solicitors . |
| 10 | She felt her heart thump in reaction to the stress she had been under . |
| 11 | She was speaking too quickly , her heart hammering in response to the lies she had told , all her defences raised against a potential enemy . |
| 12 | Crookes ' biographer Fournier d'Albe worked and wrote on this , which had baffled various investigators because its resistance changed under exposure to light-but inconsistently if there is impurity . |
| 13 | This discussion of the small towns , although descriptive , has helped to clarify our limited understanding of their settlement plans in relation to the organization and development of the internal roads and streets . |
| 14 | What is required is the education and assistance of users if their research depends on access to a multiplicity of databases and catalogues , to understand the construction of electronic catalogues , their associated approaches to subject indexing and cataloguing . |
| 15 | FOREIGN & Colonial Pacific Investment Trust reduced its equity weighting in Japan to its lowest level ever and avoided bank and insurance shares altogether to lift its net assets from £188m to £238m last year . |
| 16 | Like an x-ray her mind went through walls to every room and every cupboard and felt everything clean and orderly and done within them . |
| 17 | Isobel looked up , and her glance slid across Majorie to the window . |
| 18 | He has a deep protective love for Emily , and hopes to see her future assured by marriage to her cousin Ham , to whom she eventually becomes engaged . |
| 19 | AT THE Scottish Labour women 's conference in Perth last year , one delegate caused hoots of laughter when she described her attempt to stand for election to the district council . |
| 20 | The last is of interest to parents who wish to know where their child stands in relation to others of about the same age and also , at various levels of aggregation , to teachers , heads , LEAs , the Government and the wider community . |
| 21 | Her mood changed from guilt to defiance . |
| 22 | Its range extends from bass to alto but it is most happy in the tenor register , where it is effective in sustaining or filling in the harmony . |
| 23 | Where the rugs of a particular group fall into more than one price category , they have been included in the category most closely associated with their rugs ; their percentage costs in relation to the yardstick items indicate the range of qualities . |
| 24 | And there was plump , placid , erotically drained Stuart beside me , looking so fucking … blithe , pretending it was nice to be met at the airport , and probably thinking about how he was going to claim back some Danegeld on the unused half of their return billets from Gatwick to Victoria . |
| 25 | Their reaction turns from pleasure to indifference or hostility as they realise what impending fatherhood actually involves . |
| 26 | Called the Autoglide , the opener has had its price cut by £100 to £346 ( including VAT ) just a few months after its launch , making is even better value for money . |
| 27 | Again the ball of flame rolled out but this time , as the dragon 's neck muscles contracted , its colour faded from orange to yellow , from yellow to white , and finally to the faintest of blues . |
| 28 | Her head beat from side to side and she said , ‘ Yes , yes , yes , yes , ’ again , then Lachlan — wiry , athletic-looking , skinny shanks ramming back and forth like some skinny bull — reached under her , pulled her up , his legs spreading , kneeling ; she hung onto him , arms round his neck , then after a few vertical stabs he threw her down , back onto the bed ; she grunted , arms still tight round his back , then she brought her legs up , right up over his thin , plunging , globe-buttocked behind , until her ankles were in the small of his back , rocking to and fro , feet crossed one over the other , locked there ; with one splayed hand she held onto his back , pressing him to her , and with the other hand she felt down the length of his body , over ribs and waist and hips , and with another grunt reached round and under , taking his balls in her hand , pressing them and kneading them and squeezing them . |
| 29 | Her grin ran from ear to ear . |
| 30 | She had lain in her child 's bed and become aware of the reality of her heart for the first time as its beat quickened in response to the sparrow 's wild meanderings . |