Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] 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 | You would become accustomed to looking for the ambiguous and the turgid , to cutting the text down to its basic message . |
| 5 | Thus many companies see them as a threat to their holding on to their good people , and instilling corporate loyalty into new appointees . |
| 6 | Then before she realised his intention he had slipped the doge 's ring on to her third finger . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The £75 unit fits in the back of a PC and runs the fan down to its ideal operating speed for the ambient temperature . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A friend said last night : ‘ It will cost a fortune to get this car back to its former glory . |
| 15 | So I 'd left my pouch-seat in the control area to take my troubled mind back to my personal cabin . |
| 16 | Yet these results seem quite astonishing if you cast your mind back to our last appearance at ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 17 | I cast my mind back to our excited departure from Gatwick airport . |
| 18 | Remove stems on grape vines that have borne fruit , and cut the vine back to its main framework . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The mother-of-seven will now be able to pass the honour on to her large family which also includes 13 grandchildren . |
| 23 | The sun struck through the open window on to my bare arm . |
| 24 | When it was over , he slipped the chosen bracelet on to her dimpled wrist , smiling into her eyes like a lover . |
| 25 | George took the law in to his own hands when he shot Lennie . |
| 26 | Tit for Tat has a built-in gift , even when rare , for crossing the knife-edge over to its own side . |
| 27 | Bring this loop up to your left wrist and tuck it under the rope tied to that wrist at the point marked B. Once you have pushed a little through , grasp it and place it over your left hand and you will be free once more . |
| 28 | ‘ Good , because it seems , ’ said the colonel , placing his monocle up to his left eye , ‘ that Prescott ’ — he studied a buff form on the desk in front of him before continuing ‘ yes , Private Prescott , may have shot himself in the hand in order to avoid facing the enemy . |
| 29 | Other countries are prepared to give a commitment that they will move to a single currency without reference back to their domestic Parliaments . |
| 30 | Enough was only just enough and Ireland took a perfect record on to their second pool engagement against home town favourites Hong Kong . |