Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar . |
| 2 | How many uplifts should I use , and do I need special adaptors to connect them to the filter ? |
| 3 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 4 | Bob and I are progressing as a piano/clarsach duo , and of course some of the accompaniments to his songs tax me to the limit , or have to be vetoed altogether . |
| 5 | waves push me to the side |
| 6 | She turned away , shutting her eyes to adjust them to the darkness , and then with no further hesitation she was going down the rope hand over hand , her feet and knees checking at each knot . |
| 7 | Her next whimpered , broken words cut him to the heart . |
| 8 | He had been about to open the door into the kitchen , but now he turned and looked at her , and his next words cut her to the bone as they were apt to do when they spat the truth at her . |
| 9 | But as he made his getaway , shoppers wrestled him to the ground forcing him to drop the stolen loot — along with £200 he had stashed in a pocket — and he fled empty-handed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And we would have seen how her eyes followed him to the door . |
| 12 | Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund . |
| 13 | Perhaps you will be so good as to tell your guards to accompany me to the foot of the hill ? " |
| 14 | One of our walks took us to the top of a huge escarpment at a place called Losiolo , or World 's View . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 17 | From the corner of her eye she saw the security guards wrestle him to the ground . |
| 18 | He commented : ‘ The promotion was a tremendous success thanks to the wholehearted manner in which the branches promoted it to the public . ’ |
| 19 | When the screen is completed , a local builder and about half-a-dozen husbands take it to the peace well at the corner of the village green on the Saturday morning . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They should ask two academic referees to recommend them to the Principal without waiting for any request from her . |
| 23 | Now there are plans to open it to the public and found a museum there . |
| 24 | She struggled to her feet to see him to the door . |
| 25 | Against the left-hand wall stood an old-fashioned gas stove so heavy that Meg was unable to move it to clean behind it and preferred not to think of the accumulated grease of decades gumming it to the wall . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Three powerful strokes brought her to the rail where she went straight into an underwater turn and headed down the pool . |
| 28 | The driver was given directions to take her to the doctor that Julius had contacted . |
| 29 | His examination of a number of important constitutional conventions leads him to the conclusion that they are united in character by the possession of a single purpose — to secure that Parliament and government are ultimately subject to the wishes of the electorate . |
| 30 | In the new company , Gardner Merchant Services Group , the managers have an initial eight per cent stake , with the prospect of up to 20 per cent if their performance over the next five years justifies it to the rest of the equity holders . |