Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | While still in hospital I decided to pass my knowledge gleaned through stupidity to other people . |
| 2 | My speciality shifted from building to wading through the Bunyala swamps with wellies and a rucksack on my back . |
| 3 | So when I 'd picked myself up from the floor , my arm bruised from shoulder to wrist , I thought ‘ I 'll show the buggers . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Her mood changed from guilt to defiance . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She had been brutally assaulted and strangled , her body mutilated and her throat slashed from ear to ear . |
| 11 | The vast curling crest of the hurricane reared over them , and its face stretched from horizon to horizon . |
| 12 | In 1914 , three years after her first public concerts , she and her mother moved to Berlin to a life of considerable hardship , until Joachim 's daughter-in-law discovered her talents and arranged some scholarships for her to allow her to study with Huberman . |
| 13 | Even in a legal system which had the narrowest of definitions of murder — say , premeditated intention to kill — there would still be an argument that some cases which fulfil that criterion should have their label reduced from murder to manslaughter because of extenuating circumstances . |
| 14 | On Sept. 9 former Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa had his sentence reduced from life to 20 years ' hard labour . |
| 15 | He kept quiet , excepting that his look changed from friendliness to seriousness . |
| 16 | Indeed , the authorities upon which Mr. Collins relied in support of his submission proved on examination to be cases in which the possibility of a defence had been disposed of in that way . |
| 17 | Peter Parker does his best for Ackerley , praises his work — minor , but with an odd verve — and tries to bring out the more endearing sides to his nature revealed in letters to friends . |
| 18 | It has been said that in recent years his allegiance shifted from Sisley to Monet ! ’ |
| 19 | Like an out-take from Falcon Crest , Souness and his wife moved from villa to mansion and back again , but his incurable obsession with football ultimately led to divorce and to a painful separation which distanced Souness from his children . |
| 20 | Swinton have reduced the asking price on six players , including the winger Derek Bate , who has had his price cut from £45,000 to £35,000 . |
| 21 | Swinton have reduced the asking price on six players , including the winger Derek Bate , who has had his price cut from £45,000 to £35,000 . |
| 22 | Mr Park told him ‘ that his authority extended beyond Wolverton to Crewe also ; and then we have repairing sheds at Carlisle and Willesden . ’ |
| 23 | He felt every motion of tongue and tooth in play upon him , his prick particularized by her appetite , becoming vast in his mind 's eye until it was his body 's size : a veiny torso and a blind head lying on the bed of his belly wet from end to end , straining and shuddering , while she , the darkness , swallowed him utterly . |
| 24 | In fairness to the company , I should add that former chairman John Kerridge , who retired on health grounds in February , saw his pay reduced from £441,553 to £343,356 . |
| 25 | With a great heave the black claws ripped away Bill 's scalp , his face split from top to bottom revealing the three demonic masks of Hades rising from within . |
| 26 | ‘ Some unlucky bloke was found late last night in Houndsditch , with his throat cut from ear to ear , ’ said Joe . |
| 27 | ‘ Not even when we were lying so close that every inch of our skin touched from head to toe ? ’ he challenged her softly . |
| 28 | Our terrain changed from fields to bridleways and lanes as we approached Abbotsbury once again past the old swannery . |