Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Briton known to leaders of a charity based in Northampton discovered them and fled with them to the relative safety of Split . |
| 2 | Afterwards , the old gentleman walked with them to the little white house . |
| 3 | When they 'd covered more or less everything and it was time for her to go , Angelica walked with her to the main door . |
| 4 | Rachel took a deep breath and glanced from one to the other then over her shoulder at the closed door of her sister 's ground-floor bedroom . |
| 5 | Luke emphasised the insult by letting his gaze roam insolently over her robe , just as if he saw through it to the single garment she still had on underneath . |
| 6 | Her pulses racing , she looked past him to the dizzy drop through the hole in the cliff , to the sea below . |
| 7 | Until his family was safe , he had declined to make any formal statement , but now he went with them to the American Embassy and swore out an affidavit about what he had seen as a DIA agent assigned to DEA NARCOG , Nicosia . |
| 8 | I even went with him to the Black Bull that night , determined to spend my weekly wages on whatever he wanted . |
| 9 | Yet even scientific curiosity in such places is minute in this country , and I fear that our national outlook is still tainted by that Anglo-Saxon authoritarianism that the first English settlers took with them to the New World . |
| 10 | but I never had anything , I just went from one to the another , and I had to take it in the hall one day and I was n't , I was never very good at maths anyway , not that kind of maths . |
| 11 | Michael looked from him to the offending cigarette and back again , then reluctantly stubbed it out . |
| 12 | Tenison looked from one to the other uncertainly . |
| 13 | The man looked from one to the other , and his manner changed . |
| 14 | The man looked from one to the other — waiting . |
| 15 | India-May looked from one to the other , colour creeping up her neck . |
| 16 | Millie had come into the room carrying a tin tray , and as she put it down on the table , she looked from one to the other and said , ‘ What are you talkin' about , closed schools ? |
| 17 | She looked from one to the other , clearly terrified . |
| 18 | Julia looked from one to the other , strangely at a loss . |
| 19 | Suzie looked from one to the other , obviously enjoying her moment of glory . |
| 20 | Marguerite 's face flushed with pleasure and Claudine looked from one to the other very suspiciously . |
| 21 | She looked from one to the other , glad to have got a word in on behalf of Aunt Bertha , but it brought no softening to the inscrutable expression on Silas 's face . |
| 22 | Eddie Brady looked from one to the other and said , ‘ I think I know the one you mean . ’ |
| 23 | Frank looked from one to the other , and then , addressing himself solely to Peggy , he said , ‘ You 'd better hang on to something , Peggy . |
| 24 | Anna looked from one to the other and shook her head . |
| 25 | Fabia looked from one to the other and wanted to be a duty to neither . |
| 26 | When I reached the House of Andrus I spoke of it to the other women and we said a prayer . |