Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun] to [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After our return to duty I received a letter from Leslie : |
| 2 | Busy parents can justly retort that they have so little time to check on their children , that they can not always follow through their threats to discipline them . |
| 3 | I emphasised my ‘ masculine ’ traits , ignored any aspects of my interests to temperament which could be termed remotely ‘ feminine ’ . |
| 4 | During the later stages of their development to adulthood they frequently move about with their parents and , at this stage , create a larger grouping . |
| 5 | I intended to tell you last evening , but what with one thing and another — ’ He released her chin and slid his fingers up the side of her face to cup it . |
| 6 | Clayton attributes a lot of his success to sport itself . |
| 7 | 5.5 This conclusion will actually exclude the great majority of verbs ( or , more exactly , all normal uses of the great majority of verbs ) from appearing in construction with an adverbal adjective at all , with or without the claimed nuance ; either they will be related to their object in such a way that there is simply no need to mention any particular property of the latter entity , as in ( 30 ) ; or , even if there is some property of the object specially relevant to the notion introduced in the verb , that property does not belong to the object by virtue of the relationship between the verb and the object ; for instance , even if Angela in ( 31 ) resembles her cousin in that they are both dark , her cousin does not have that property because Angela resembles her , and even if the Prince admired his Chief Justice because of his disposition to clemency it is not the the Prince 's admiration that justifies the applicability of the property merciful . |
| 8 | She slipped her left arm behind his head to cradle it while her right hand brought the whisky to his mouth . |
| 9 | to collect the card but did Ms Sutton gracefully rise from her seat to hand it to her , no , she tossed it over the rim of the platform onto the floor below leaving the poor woman to scrabble around for several minutes looking for it and the , and the punch line is a little later an embarrassed Ms Sutton is contesting Cambridgeshire South West for the Lib Dems at the general election , apologised for her cavalier behaviour , let us hope she learnt from the experience yeah |
| 10 | And she says her day with Becky and the team was a revelation : ‘ The Granada Reports people came to my house to film me in some of my own clothes and then took me to the Hillcrest Hotel in Widnes where I had my hair styled and my make-up done , and then tried on lots of different outfits . |
| 11 | So it 's to their interest to beef you up . |
| 12 | Every day on his way to school he had seen a brooch in the jeweller 's window , the price showing on a card beside it . |
| 13 | He took an extreme position on law reform as well as in matters religious , and his fellow millenarians took to meeting regularly at his house to concert their parliamentary tactics . |
| 14 | Then you can hit a key and hey presto ! the picture is all jumbled up ready for your child to piece it back together again . |