Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even a dominant firm will face rivals seeking to find a window of opportunity to chip away at the dominant position . |
| 2 | Together they were the opposite of women who will nod and nod as they pretend to listen to another , waiting for the first pause of breath to muscle in with the growing pains and glories of their own house , the impatience showing on their faces as they wait . |
| 3 | These do not seem like promising beginnings : English was merely to be an extra accomplishment for young middle-class women — a ‘ convenient sort of non-subject to palm off on the ladies ’ as Eagleton puts it ; and a substitute for a classical education for the discontented working classes . |
| 4 | But there was no fluke about his victory in the French 2,000 Guineas when showing a fine burst of acceleration to bolt in by a length and a half from Bin Ajwaad . |
| 5 | But there was no fluke about his victory in the French 2,000 Guineas when showing a fine burst of acceleration to bolt in by a length and a half from Bin Ajwaad . |
| 6 | You need a certain kind of front to breeze in from an alternative reality in the back of a time-travelling Volvo and sit in a Presley City bar , with a two-headed nipper on your lap , complaining to a private dick from the twenty-fifth century that you do n't have time for nonsense . |
| 7 | If these are painted black , bees orientate their dances with respect to gravity even in bright light . |
| 8 | She had been stopped and killed while cycling home from Byss to Hilderbridge late on the previous night . |
| 9 | Mother Francis would have loved that old cottage to be Eve 's home ; she could see in her mind 's eye a kind of life where Eve would bring her student friends home from university to stay there for weekends , and they would call at the convent and have tea in the parlour . |
| 10 | This alkali can contribute to acid neutralisation and the intraoesophageal pH increases with time in response to acid even in the absence of salivary secretion . |
| 11 | In addition to emigration out with the United Kingdom , many of the best products of their excellent education system have gone to the mainland for university studies , and then stayed on to work because of the dearth of suitable employment opportunities in the islands . |
| 12 | This is not merely a little churlish ; it also explains why the cumulative effect of their evidence makes less — impact than it should , because it disguises the fact that the unholy alliance between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry has tottered from crisis to crisis now for two decades — since the thalidomide tragedy . |
| 13 | I had an arrow right through my body from back to front somewhere in the region of my lower ribs . |
| 14 | I put it off from day to day out of pity for myself . |
| 15 | Flight fast , flocks performing aerial evolutions recalling golden plover , and undertaking long , often noisy daily journeys — up to 40 miles and back — to and from water to drink either at dawn or dusk . |
| 16 | What is of considerable interest and of value in assessing the rights and wrongs of it , is the fact that it was conducted from beginning to end entirely on the one issue , that of the sovereign rights of the inhabitants . |
| 17 | The nun who admitted them appeared to be covered from head to foot apart from her eyes , nose , and mouth , for after she had bolted the gate behind them she tucked her bare hands into her sleeves , then led the way up a gravel path , on either side of which a lawn extended as far as a further high , stone wall , its top also embedded with glass . |
| 18 | The most vital thing is that the club is run from top to bottom just like a winning team . |
| 19 | But Marx , in an equally tough voice , merely said , ‘ O.K. Let's do just that , ’ put his hand in his breast pocket , slowly pulled out a horribly official-looking envelope , and slowly and carefully took from that an even more horribly official-looking form , folded once , in what to Herr Nordern seemed an indescribably sinister manner from top to bottom instead of side to side . |
| 20 | There were girls who followed Must n't Grumble from gig to gig just to be near the boy , recording these concerts on reel-to-reel tape-recorders . |
| 21 | Down , but based in Macau , set fastest time in a wet qualifying session on Saturday and led from start to finish yesterday in his Lola-Mugen to win from championship leader Kazuyoshi Hoshino . |
| 22 | Covered pedestrian access , with lifts and inclines but no stairs ( which for the disabled and those with luggage and or small children , can cause major problems ) would enable passengers to transfer from road to rail etc in comparative comfort . |
| 23 | Every feeling of humanity reverted from it and it would scarce be believed , in that age and kingdom of philanthropy , that such cruelties were exercised from man to man even for the mean , the paltry sum of eighteen pence . |
| 24 | Now that I had left the college dormitory I used to look fearfully from rime to time out of my window , expecting to see that gang of fascist students coming to beat me up . |
| 25 | Much of this mobility was accounted for by adolescent farm servants who regularly changed jobs every year ; they moved from farm to farm regardless of parish boundaries but rarely went very far . |
| 26 | I loved the trees , but having this forest next door , made sure our garden only saw the sun as he moves from east to west early in the morning . |
| 27 | They were working at about the same time as Turner and Constable and shared those artists ’ concerns in relation to painting directly from nature , which Dahl described as Naturvei — nature 's Way . |
| 28 | There appears to be no policy in relation to dementia either from the point of view of the sufferer or the problems that might follow for other owner-occupiers . |
| 29 | We do that in relation to negligence generally in the civil courts , but not in the criminal courts . ’ |
| 30 | Above all , the reader is led into the inevitable decline from triumph to despair not by authorial direction but obliquely through Judd 's halting attempt to understand what has happened . |