Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [vb pp] [noun] to [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Failing eyesight which left writer and poet Joan Rimmer blinded for three months , delayed publication of the long awaited sequel to My Formby , Formby Remembered . |
| 2 | So had the cheerful chat and bustle that had formed the barely noticed background to our conversation . |
| 3 | But Cleo had only laughed at his insults , and later added the scornfully thrown coins to her collection in the stocking drawer . |
| 4 | He even came across a restricted locality where lived a colony of what must have been a new sub-species of the extremely rare , Small Mountain Ringlet butterfly , for they were at a much reduced altitude to their normal haunts , and altogether smaller than the regular species . |
| 5 | He proceeds up the garden path , one arm round his wife , the other holding out a gaily wrapped parcel to his clamouring young . |
| 6 | Five licences were granted at one session at Singleton ; three related to tiny parcels , while a whole virgate was let by a recently admitted tenant to his brother , presumably the elder , the younger having inherited under the custom of borough English , and probably under age . |