Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The fan overhead whirred softly , flickering strands of her black hair on to her sun-kissed shouders , the red sundress strappy and sexy .
2 She squeezes again , and this time a great glob of Teint Naturel extrudes itself from the narrow aperture on to her middle finger .
3 ‘ So you did , ’ he drawled smoothly , slipping the gold watch on to his bronzed wrist .
4 Filaret owed his eminence less to his holy office than to his son 's willingness to treat him as a co-ruler .
5 You would become accustomed to looking for the ambiguous and the turgid , to cutting the text down to its basic message .
6 In this way justice is done mot only to its Hebrew origin , where it was called the " Torah " ( Law ) or the " Five fifths of Moses " , but also to its own inherent unity .
7 Thus many companies see them as a threat to their holding on to their good people , and instilling corporate loyalty into new appointees .
8 Then before she realised his intention he had slipped the doge 's ring on to her third finger .
9 I shifted my weight on to my other foot , looked around the landing and up the stairs , half-expecting to see my father leaning over the banister rail , or to see his shadow on the wall of the landing above , where he thought he could hide and listen to my phone calls without me knowing .
10 The third method of issue involves the Bank of England taking stock on to its own books and then selling this as a tap stock over a period of time in day-to-day dealings with GEMMs .
11 As the prosecution still seemed in no hurry to have a trial date set , Chief Judge Moran overruled the government 's objections and ordered that Coleman 's legal passport be returned , subject to his giving the prosecutor two weeks ’ notice of his intention to leave the country and to his reporting in to his pre-trial services officer every other week by telephone .
12 His eyes rested on her beautifully shaped mouth , then went up to her eyes and held her look steadily before he flicked his glance down to her sensible shoes .
13 The £75 unit fits in the back of a PC and runs the fan down to its ideal operating speed for the ambient temperature .
14 The Board of Trade , a free-trading department down to its last paper-clip , had long opposed this restrictive practice as a conspiracy against the consumer and as a malign , artificial inflator of prices .
15 DAVID Pleat shrugged off Luton 's 2-1 defeat away to his old club Leicester and insisted : ‘ We are not going to change our style .
16 Finally we were allowed to shuffle in , pair by pair , with the other animals , paid our money at the one-person-only box-office , and spent the remains on hot snacks from the kiosk to bring the blood back to our frozen digits .
17 A friend said last night : ‘ It will cost a fortune to get this car back to its former glory .
18 So I 'd left my pouch-seat in the control area to take my troubled mind back to my personal cabin .
19 Yet these results seem quite astonishing if you cast your mind back to our last appearance at ‘ The Tip ’ .
20 I cast my mind back to our excited departure from Gatwick airport .
21 Remove stems on grape vines that have borne fruit , and cut the vine back to its main framework .
22 Through the 1840s and 1850s Darwin engaged in a debate with Hooker on this question , eventually winning Hooker around to his own way of thinking .
23 Major Russian , French , British and US expeditions of the 1840s made further discoveries in the far south , effectively defining the shores of the predicted continent almost to their present positions ( Reader 's Digest , 1985 ) .
24 This can be anything from a loan of £10 to tide your sister over to her next pay cheque , to substantial gifts like giving your grandson the money for the deposit on his first house .
25 The outer layer is the totally waterproof one , and if you 're going to follow the performance fabric ideology through to its logical conclusion , then a breathable waterproof is essential .
26 The mother-of-seven will now be able to pass the honour on to her large family which also includes 13 grandchildren .
27 The sun struck through the open window on to my bare arm .
28 When it was over , he slipped the chosen bracelet on to her dimpled wrist , smiling into her eyes like a lover .
29 George took the law in to his own hands when he shot Lennie .
30 Tit for Tat has a built-in gift , even when rare , for crossing the knife-edge over to its own side .
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