Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could see that if I were to give way to retroscendence the average supermarket gondola , stuck with myriad products like a hedgehog with spines , would become a mystic test-bed able through its thousand portals to suck me into individual sagas so complex , so durable , that I would perhaps never reemerge . |
| 2 | SUMMERCHILD : Actually , I do feel a little as if I were coming face to face with my past in some kind of way . |
| 3 | It is as well to be clear in this way that you are giving priority to suspense because , of course , there are elements of suspense not only in almost all crime fiction but in almost all fiction of any sort . |
| 4 | You know really screaming and getting raged really resentful and then , you know , back knows ultimately you 're wanting parents to side with us . |
| 5 | And there is still another way of understanding time , which is that when a mother gives birth , she is giving birth to time itself , to a ‘ life-time ’ , and she is thus in some sense beyond time itself . |
| 6 | She is beyond time , and yet she is giving birth to time itself At the moment of birth , her baby is the very youngest member of the human race , its star of hope and its future . |
| 7 | She was wearing trousers to church ! |
| 8 | She was standing face to face with a boy in the public park at the end of Decimus Street . |
| 9 | We are brought face to face with the question , ‘ What is the purpose of human life itself ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The day before we arrived in Gibraltar we received a signal from Admiral Sir James Somerville of Force ‘ H ’ who was in command of the operation , saying that on arrival in harbour we were to berth stern to stern to ‘ Ark Royal ’ so that some of our Hurricanes could be transferred to her and rolled off ‘ Furious ’ direct onto ‘ Ark Royal ’ . |
| 11 | Before I could deliver another , he had grasped my wrist and we were fighting face to face , nearly falling into the fire as we did so . |
| 12 | The university and polytechnic librarians seem to be on surer ground when they are producing guides on literature search strategies , or guides to the preparation of bibliographical references or guides to the preparation of projects and theses : that is , when they are writing guides to library and information techniques . |
| 13 | They 're aligned east to west which suggests they may have been Christian burials . |
| 14 | They 're aligned east to west which suggests they may have been Christian burials . |
| 15 | They were kneeling back to back , their buttocks touching , and each with one end of the double-headed dildo still embedded securely in her gaping twat . |
| 16 | Barbara wished they were talking face to face . |
| 17 | Nicky , of Falkirk , West Lothian , said : ‘ It was adding insult to injury to see Des 's face on the record cover smiling up at me . ’ |
| 18 | Other Danuese , particularly the ex-FAKINTIL in the malai battalions , thought it was to help planes to home in more accurately . |
| 19 | He was given instructions to taxi to the holding point for runway 26 and subsequently took off normally at 1202 hrs . |
| 20 | In 1950 he was appointed Trainer to Palace 's League team and was twice nominated in that capacity to the Division 3 South eleven in the annual representative matches against their northern counterparts . |