Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv] to [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We stood eyeing each other for a few minutes and then to my amazement a jeep came up ; the farmer saw my problem and not only gave me a lift past the bull but took me right to the main road where the bike was . |
| 2 | For a long time he had held the envelope in his chubby fingers and close to his face . |
| 3 | She had then bleached his hair along the side and at the temples … and the results , as she had promised , added ten years and more to his age . |
| 4 | Her pulses quickened as she ran her hand delicately along his collarbone , over his biceps and back to his chest . |
| 5 | Thus we need to be especially careful what we do with young horses so that the habits they establish are in their interests and not to their detriment . |
| 6 | Khaur and Danjit simply propelled her — Jezrael could hardly walk , so massive was her state of shock — out of the wintry night fields and back to their depot , leaving Ember 's body lonely in the cold . |