Example sentences of "[num ord] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his pre-National race Devon Loch gave a stone to another future Gold Cup winner , Kerstin , when running third to her in the National Hunt Chase at Cheltenham , after which Dick Francis reported to the Queen Mother that ‘ Devon Loch was staying on really well , and I feel we have a great chance at Aintree . ’ |
| 2 | Turner , Ministry 's heavily tattooed bone tech , was sitting next to me with a small sparrow 's skull placed next to his beer on the table . |
| 3 | The changeling character is Sandra Bernhard , who is perched next to me on a gilt-covered chair in a mirrored room high up in the House of Dior . |
| 4 | He 's sitting next to me in a late night eaterie in Manchester talking into a tape recorder because he and his band have just released a song called ‘ Creep ’ that 's threatening to be one of the highlights of the year . |
| 5 | On August 2nd , 1951 , 48-year old Mrs Mabel Tattershaw was spoken to by the man next to her in the Roxy Cinema , Nottingham . |
| 6 | Her excitement , as she sat next to him on the narrow dirty furry seat of the bus , was almost too much for her . |
| 7 | The audience was fidgeting behind him , and there was a limit to the amount of time he intended to chat to this crazy woman next to him in the soiled wedding dress and veil . |
| 8 | Rainses had sat next to us at the boat-yard tea-house , and we had asked him about boats to Be-ni Hasan , a group of tombs some fifteen miles upstream . |
| 9 | The short of mountaineer that invariably takes the empty berth next to you on an alpine refuge matrazenlager . |
| 10 | Parked next to it at a recent training session was Doddie Weir 's C reg Cavalier . |
| 11 | He drew up next to it by a red traffic light . |