Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved in her slowly to the rhythm of the distant sea . |
| 2 | What else was there to do ? she thought miserably as she squelched behind him up to the bathroom . |
| 3 | ‘ Okay , ’ she walked with him down to the first landing . |
| 4 | Her head throbbed as she walked beside him up to the château , and she was fighting a churning nausea deep within her . |
| 5 | Wattling turned uncertainly to the table , took up cautiously the pile of saucers , and started with them waveringly to the sink . |
| 6 | I jumped up and ran with him down to the shore . |
| 7 | like to look after my mother , er she was one , and she died now erm she died two years ago , I think she was one of the first to go and er , the other one they fetched him out of the street the chap then they corresponded with him up to the war but , but after that , they , I do n't know whether they stopped writing because of the war , I do n't know , but they never , never got in touch with them never again so |
| 8 | As food particles are swept by , they are caught by the tentacles and passed by them down to the mouth . |
| 9 | She had taken her last look at this obscure outpost of the Soviet Union and now stood with her back to the low sun . |
| 10 | She stood with her back to the wall , sheltering from the rain : a sober , respectable woman in a burgundy coat and white knitted cap . |
| 11 | Once more things were happening she had not caused to happen but now there was a difference and she sat with her back to the tree trying to discover what the difference was . |
| 12 | She sat with her back to the window and Lee felt somewhat at a loss faced , at last , by the elderly woman in the opaque , black-lensed spectacles and the expensive , rather drab suit , framed by sun-rays admitted through the tall crimson-curtained opening . |
| 13 | She changed seats with Hugo so that she sat with her back to the other diners . |
| 14 | Pale roads snaked from them down to the newer tourist settlements by the sea . |