Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 WHILE my heart goes out to the parents in the baby-swop drama , I have to agree with the midwife interviewed on TV who said that it was ‘ a disaster waiting to happen ’ .
2 My heart goes out to the people who are being raped , pillaged and murdered just because they are Bosnian Muslims .
3 My heart goes out to the people who are being raped , pillaged and murdered just because they are Bosnian Moslems . ’
4 My heart goes out to the father and to all the family .
5 Look , ’ he lied , q have in my wallet a warrant from the Chief Justice and I shall stay here whilst my clerk hurries back to the city and brings men from the under sheriff to search this house .
6 My sympathy goes out to the people of Gateshead who have suffered a similarly sickening attack and I believe the government must now ensure that there is a positive and rapid response to meet the concerns of local residents . ’
7 I wiped sweat off my forehead with my fingers and stood quietly , holding on , trying to let the oxygen level in my blood climb back to a functioning state .
8 My mind cast back to the winter of last November when I stood on this same platform awaiting the arrival of a new intake .
9 I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway .
10 My mind goes back to the original fifteen-year Hospital Plan , published in January 1962 .
11 My mind went back to the scene in that bedroom and the sliding doors to the paved patio .
12 Only when she fumbles with the tiny metal flap of my zip does my mind shake back to the present .
13 My mind flew back to the sight of The Fat Controller 's cigar .
14 My mind turned back to the man Mrs Bradshaw had accosted in the garden , but I knew of no one who bore me that kind of grudge or , if he did , would take it out on me in such a petty and spiteful way .
15 As Frankenstein 's gaze had recently done , my gaze turned up to the ceiling , beyond which lay the laboratory — with all its gruesome secrets now accessible to me !
16 Our fourth child had been born 10 years previously and I do n't expect anyone believed there would be any more , but my wife and I thought we were getting too old too quickly , so we would have another two ; and on November 5 that year my wife went down to the bonfire which was already alight and saw on top of it a dropside cot she had been keeping , and which had served the four children , a relatively new carricot , and other items of that sort .
17 Next day my father went back to the war and my mother back to the boarding school where she was on teaching practice as a French assistante , and spoke to the future wives of doctors and civil servants : Je suis , tu es , il est , nous sommes .
18 My father went off to the park .
19 ‘ I wonder how long it took for my message to get through to the patrol cars on the road , ’ Patrick said .
20 Her shape descended and she settled herself beside me , in awkward abundance , and my hand reached out to the white pulp of her shoulder .
21 She begs her sister to go up to the top of the tower of the castle and look out for them , and keeps calling out to her , ‘ Anne , sister Anne , dost thou see nothing coming ? ’
22 The main opposition party , the right-wing Community party ( Atassut ) , lost three seats , leaving it with eight , as some of its support went over to the Centre Party , which entered the legislature for the first time with two seats .
23 Sister Rosario looked at the pinched face of Maura Ryan and her heart went out to the child .
24 Louisa received it so , and her heart went out to the suffering woman .
25 Charity felt her heart go out to the other woman .
26 This means that all people over pension age who are not in full-rime work have a statutory right to have their income brought up to a guaranteed weekly level .
27 Frowning , she let her mind drift back to the events of two years ago .
28 ‘ My father called me Breeze , ’ she added , as he seemed interested ; and as she said that her mind went back to the hot summer 's day when her father had given her the nickname which had been adopted by everyone .
29 Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ?
30 Her mind drifted back to the first day they 'd seen Crystal Springs .
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