Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sex in Miranda 's experience was n't a matter of spectacle , but of darkness and touch , magnified by her senses ' usually exacerbated state , the extremes of the night , of smoking and drinking and hunger and tiredness , and she was a blind swimmer through walls of warm water , and knew nothing of the practice and technique of the models in the pictures crammed edge to edge in the shop . |
| 2 | There was a full moon and we marched until midnight , the camels tied head to tail in groups of three or four . |
| 3 | And we gazed into the little flickering fire , grieving once more for the parents brought face to face with reality . |
| 4 | The authority or aristocracy and armed excise officers came face to face with the fact that a substantial part of the rural and urban population alike either connived at , or were intimidated by , the activities of well-organised armed gangs . |
| 5 | On the afternoon of Saturday 27 July 1689 the two armies came face to face at the pass of Killiecrankie , about midway between Pitlochry and Blair Castle , where the road ran through a narrow valley beside a deep gorge . |
| 6 | As Spaniards came face to face with their country 's impotence , backwardness and inescapably second-class status , there arose a confused chorus of demands for the ‘ regeneration ’ of what was widely seen as a ‘ decadent ’ nation . |
| 7 | TWO North-East councillors came face to face in court for the first time yesterday over allegations that they assaulted each other . |
| 8 | There were moments when he took on too much ; and although I pursued the matter of our volume only because he had invited me to do so , I soon realized that I was asking more than I should have done , especially as I was uncertain at any moment whether my collaborators saw eye to eye with me about the scope of our project . |
| 9 | There are also many more specific ones felt moment to moment in the classroom . |
| 10 | Robin Child absolutely refuses to grade , and when O-levels gave way to GCSE with all its internal coursework and marking , he rejected it . |
| 11 | Two events helped lead to resolution of this puzzle . |