Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [prep] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one of them , where I farmed for 45 years , while my employees who belonged there spoke Gaelic , I also from time to time employed Scots speakers from Alyth , splendid fellows , in whose speech I could recognise classical Scots words which occur in the poetry of the Scottish Chaucerians . |
| 2 | The second mechanism is to have special protein molecules in the membrane , able to take hold of molecules of X and pass them directionally from outside to inside . |
| 3 | The whiteness of his shirt seemed to emphasise his tan , but it was something in the glittering gaze , raking her slowly from head to toe , that made her hesitate . |
| 4 | He glanced over her slowly from head to foot , taking in the sleeveless green cotton dress with its tight bodice and full skirt that had seemed so modest when she had put it on . |
| 5 | He had deceived her utterly from start to finish , and such calculated deceit was a downright insult ! |
| 6 | Their situation was similar to the well-known triangular struggle between the Barretts of Wimpole Street , Elizabeth colluding with her father in an illness which kept her tied to home until Robert Browning won her away from invalidism to health through marriage . |
| 7 | The company flew him specially from Europe to Bristol at the time . |
| 8 | Her navigation system guided her infallibly from waypoint to waypoint . |
| 9 | With full heart , Shelley drove through the silent , magic dawn , looking at him sideways from time to time . |
| 10 | It moved with her silently from room to room , breathing softly against the back of her neck . |
| 11 | He had constantly worked against Balfour , criticizing him freely in letters to colleagues and using his party positions as independent bases against the leader . |
| 12 | The disapproval she had sometimes sensed from him , and that had bothered her fleetingly from time to time , had erupted into a torrent of burning hatred at the discovery that , in spite of the fortune his father had showered on him , Ryan had died in a state of virtual penury . |
| 13 | The brisk social wind that had driven her lightly from guest to guest had dropped , stilled by telephonic contact with the tiny scratching clicking silence of the voiceless house of the long ordeal of her childhood : she found herself becalmed , for a whole dull stretch , talking to old Peter Binns , a charming old boy , but a bore , and so slow of speech that Liz could hardly restrain herself from finishing all his ponderous sentences . |
| 14 | The Duke held his branch still higher , waving it slowly from side to side , and the piper started a long , echoing note on his drone . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd never heard of it before in relation to dogs but our vet was wonderful . |
| 16 | And now that I 'd forced myself to take it all out of its cobwebby cupboard and look at it remorselessly from start to finish , I knew I had been instinctively wise not to do it before . |
| 17 | I have read it now from cover to cover — every word of it for the past seven years — since I first got hooked on running . |
| 18 | There was movement there ; movement and light , as if someone was shining a torch beam on it , swinging it wildly from side to side . |
| 19 | Aside from using it twice in relation to Abdulkerim , he uses it on only three other occasions , at least in his articles concerned with the Muftis under consideration : first , in the general statement which forms the basis for his rejection of the Muftilik of Molla Yegan to the effect that all the ulema are empowered to give fetvas ; second , in connection with Molla Yegan himself ; and third , twice in regard to Molla Shaykh " Abd al-Karim al-Kadiri ( Seyh Abdulkerim ) , who seems to have held an ad hominem muftilik , not connected with the Muftilik of Istanbul , in the time of Suleyman . |
| 20 | The hosepipe ban made it hard for Pa to water during the hours of daylight . |
| 21 | Tilda alternately nodded her head and shook it violently from side to side . |
| 22 | He would analyse the paper sample , photograph and enlarge each individual letter and then mount them on a comparison chart , and the jury would pass it solemnly from hand to hand and wonder wily it needed a highly-paid expert to come and explain what anyone could see with his own eyes . |
| 23 | She had recently killed some of Buddie 's hens and turkeys by gripping their necks between her teeth and shaking them violently from side to side before throwing them into the air . |