Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her next whimpered , broken words cut him to the heart . |
| 2 | Det Insp Brian Welfare , of Sussex CID , said that he had met the university 's residential advisers to alert them to the risk to other students . |
| 3 | Kuwait is urging the commission to encourage all countries holding frozen Iraqi assets to transfer them to the commission to meet claims . |
| 4 | Here these Cornish sappers dedicated themselves to the work they knew best , digging defensive trenches and building parapets as well as blowing up houses blocking the range of the gunnery . |
| 5 | Even allowing Finnis his large claim that private property is a general requirement of justice , it must be evident that a remarkably wide range of possible determinations present themselves to the legislator . |
| 6 | We had climbed together a couple of weeks before at Goat Crag , where I was once again reminded how suited Fanshawe is to upward progress ; a powerful frame and seemingly hydraulic legs brought him to the crag aeons before I arrived . |
| 7 | This concept of the division of our mental attributes into two quite separate aspects brings us to the frontiers of the fourth plane of our being , the spiritual level or plane . |
| 8 | Now , returning across the Hungerford Bridge , those same thoughts came to haunt him a little as the overhead lights stained everything to the colour of dull old parchment . |
| 9 | And it was n't until the end of the Second World War that the tiny trees made it to the west . |
| 10 | A few easy moves brought him to the sanctuary of the belay ledge . |
| 11 | If migrating birds are caught up in a storm , or blown off course , it can be disastrous for , even undisturbed these vast journeys stretch them to the limit . |
| 12 | This does not require any bridging inferences to link it to the earlier sentence . |
| 13 | Two quick steps took her to the vacated table where she seized the bottle of aquavit , neatly topping up both glasses . |
| 14 | For long moments she toyed with his anxious , quivering wand , dexterously using her warm wet tongue and soft lips to guide him to the brink of orgasm . |
| 15 | When I go skiing I want dozens of fast tows to whisk me to the top of runs and ensure I do n't have to queue for 20 minutes behind a junior racing team , trying to unclip each other 's bindings and seeing how far they can spit . |
| 16 | Its greatest drawback is that it requires human beings to adapt themselves to the production process , and in most Western countries , there has been a reaction against this requirement . |
| 17 | Towering mossy oaks led her to the edge of the wood , and soon she could smell the smoke of a fire , and sense the open field ahead . |
| 18 | The court refused to allow the claim , holding that the clause ( imposing an exorbitant charge ) was particularly onerous and unusual and the library had not taken all reasonable steps to bring it to the attention of the agency . |
| 19 | Three powerful strokes brought her to the rail where she went straight into an underwater turn and headed down the pool . |
| 20 | Many men ( but few women ) deny the existence of subtle impediments that make it particularly difficult for women , blacks , Hispanics and even those talented Asians to make it to the top . |
| 21 | So now Maggie was not afraid of the dark , even though the great windows exposed her to the full moon and turned her own skin white and pearly — a reflection of reflected light . |
| 22 | Webb , 28 , who played for Northern until his medical studies took him to the west country , said : ‘ You 're a long time retired . |
| 23 | Two half-run strides took her to the only way out : the lift . |
| 24 | After constant sleepless nights brought us to the brink of a nervous breakdown ; we gave in . |
| 25 | His talents , his wealth , and the changing times raised him to the court of assistants of the Levant Company from 1644 to 1648 , and in 1645 Parliament appointed him to the Goldsmiths ' Hall committee , through which Royalists redeemed their sequestrated estates by paying compositions . |
| 26 | These tales are told with an extraordinary lightness : the frequency of the present or the perfect as narrative tenses ; the adoption of a simple but precise vocabulary ; the sparing use of adjectives ; the composition of short , essential paragraphs added one to the other , not like bricks , in the conventional metaphor of story-building , but more like transparent balloons lifting the story off the ground — with all of these techniques , Celati has created a mode of story-telling which shakes off the weight of narrative in what is a conscious and consistent effort to pare away the superstructure of ideology and ‘ that homogeneous and totalizing continuity that is called history ’ ( Celati 1975 : 14 ; cf. |
| 27 | However , whilst there is no need to take account of the attributes of a particular contracting partner , if a business contracts with people of a particular class , the steps must be reasonably sufficient to bring the terms to the notice of a member of that class — in Richardson , Spence & Co v Rowntree [ 1894 ] AC 217 , terms on a steamer ticket for carriage in steerage class were not incorporated into a contract because the defendant had taken insufficient steps to bring them to the notice of steerage class passengers . |
| 28 | Thus , a use of eloquent formal language , a confident employment of a literary heritage , and a preoccupation with either metaphysical themes or the large issues of state of especial interest to those in the governing classes are normally upheld as critical sign-posts directing us to the period 's ‘ greatest ’ writing . |
| 29 | We will provide evidence that these qualities and critical observations led him to the conclusion that wheat products contained the factor responsible for the severe clinical symptoms of coeliac disease , at that time also called Gee-Herter 's disease , long before this thesis in 1950 . |
| 30 | But there are also extensive external networks ( formal and informal ; electronic , written and oral ) to which we have links , and which in various ways bind us to the rest of the actors in the firm . |