Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not , but I 'm sending Curnow to Carbis Bay to talk to the old man . |
| 2 | Well I said what you looking at you skinny thing , and she just , how dare you speak to me like that , and I just who the hell you looking at you ugly thing , I 'm going to Espania tomorrow , cos I 'm going holiday to El Spania , right then |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | SUMMERCHILD : Actually , I do feel a little as if I were coming face to face with my past in some kind of way . |
| 5 | Because I was born twin to Grainne … because the Royal Line must never divide … |
| 6 | Sometime during 1950 , I think before the summer , before the dresses were made , I was taken north to Burnley and into the sheds . |
| 7 | In order to keep an erection long enough to fake orgasm , I had to imagine that I was making love to Karen . |
| 8 | We were now at a point of safety , half a mile from the village of El Ouata , so I was allowed access to supplies in the Land Rover . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When you 're giving feedback to people , yes , there were going to bad things about what they 've done , yes , there 's going to be good things , but if you can catch the bad things between two good things , even if the good things are just saying thank you , they 're going to go away with a bigger smile on their face , and probably feel more motivated for the next time they do that task . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | in the way she is afforded access to opportunities for promotion , transfer or training or by refusing or deliberately omitting to afford her access to any such opportunities ; or |
| 14 | She was standing face to face with a boy in the public park at the end of Decimus Street . |
| 15 | We are brought face to face with the question , ‘ What is the purpose of human life itself ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They 're aligned east to west which suggests they may have been Christian burials . |
| 19 | They 're aligned east to west which suggests they may have been Christian burials . |
| 20 | yeah , one will always be there if you 've got , if , if you 've got a job , the other one is very iffy and yet they were lending money to people who right , right , rightly in their minds have , and as Maggie T said oh yes go on , go , yeah , independence and all that , erm they were going out , never having done it before , no tradition in , in maybe in their family of doing it before , got this goal this sort of Disney World ideal you know erm , sort of make believe world who are we gon na be and we 're gon na be dreaming the dream , the dream |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Barbara wished they were talking face to face . |
| 23 | Putting his left arm round Donald 's shoulder , he took advantage of his first relaxation from the spasm of pain , to raise the glass to his lips , push his head back and , as if he were administering medicine to Maisie , roll the fluid past the perfectly kept teeth . |
| 24 | For southern observers , a good way to find it is to join Canopus to Rigel by an imaginary line ; this will cross Columba and Lepus . |
| 25 | He is bound apprentice to Joe , but suddenly finds himself being promised ‘ great expectations ’ from a mysterious benefactor by Mr Jaggers . |
| 26 | As a consequence the business must be conscious of this double perspective , whether it be to minimise exposure to EC competition rules or in order to decide how best to invoke the rules against competitors . |
| 27 | A charity worker says his social security payments are being stopped because he 's taking aid to Sarajevo . |
| 28 | And he gets a lot of publicity out of this by er , being photographed with Ted Heath , by announcing that he 's showing clemency to people who are convicted by the Iraqi courts , and that really people should n't hold too much against him . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | He was delivering milk to houses in Cheltenham in the early hours of this morning , when 2 men pounced on him , demanding cash . |