Example sentences of "to [noun] [prep] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked away from the tramp in her drawing-room to Jim in his Italian shirt and black doeskin trousers . |
| 2 | We have also observed an increase in expression upon deleting from -2300bp to -300bp in our transient assays in C1300 cells . |
| 3 | You take to photography as your new career . |
| 4 | He did not proceed to university in his seventeenth year but was instead apprenticed for £630 to the London wholesale grocery firm of Newnham and Shipley , in Watling Street It was a large indenture payment and coming , as it did , soon after his father 's death in March 1743 , was probably intended to secure a profitable mercantile future for him . |
| 5 | Some creatures are sensitive to infrasound , to frequencies below our normal frequency range . |
| 6 | In addition , the proximity of the Survey to the University ( they have been on the same site since 1975 ) led to contacts between their respective staffs , with a cross-fertilisation of ideas . |
| 7 | It 's claimed he made contact with the KGB on a vacation trip to Moscow during his second year at Oxford ; an argument that certainly does n't wash with Jesse Malkin . |
| 8 | Soviet President Gorbachev made an official stop-over visit to the South Korean island of Cheju on April 19-20 , whilst returning to Moscow from his four-day visit to Japan [ see p. 38148 ] . |
| 9 | That was all he could say for quite a time ; but when he had recovered his confidence he said a lot more , all of it expressing gratitude to Sheila for her quick thinking and great pluck and shame for his own and Chuck 's roughness with her earlier . |
| 10 | The allegation in the action for fire that the defendant tam negligenter ac improvide ‘ kept his fire that it escaped , ’ referred to negligence in its older sense — one mode of committing a tort . |
| 11 | The Soul Eater crouched for a few moments and Nuadu saw that a thin silvery fluid was beginning to course along its hollow talons . |
| 12 | ‘ WE MADE a splash immediately before we broke up ; now a band starts shopping its demos to majors after its third rehearsal . |
| 13 | The driver was taken to the same hospital , but later moved to Wolverhampton for his own protection as angry relatives and friends of the girls ' families gathered in corridors . |
| 14 | She no longer felt any animosity towards him and was moved to tenderness by his obvious misery . |
| 15 | Appealing to the " test of truth " , to objects in their natural state unmediated by consciousness , is an interference between these two sets of relationships and therefore a disruption of the opposition advanced by the text between metaphor and metonymy . |
| 16 | Then I thought stuff that , I 'd rather go to Ibiza with my literary agent , Alison , and take some Ecstasy . |
| 17 | His successor , President Endara , says he wants him extradited to Panama for his alleged part in the 1985 beheading of the politician Hugo Spadafora . |
| 18 | The rest of mankind and womankind also admire the physical attractions of those maidens and are roused to enthusiasm by their perfect dancing . |
| 19 | With practice , however , the canoe becomes an extension of the canoeist although his muscles never quite adjust to hours in its cramped confines . |
| 20 | He went to rehearsals for his new plays , of course , but he was always happy to hurry home again . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , I look forward to Biochemistry in its 3rd edition . |
| 22 | We were there last weekend , they 'd say , and the elements were against us , but we were snug from head to toe in our rubber suits . |
| 23 | Firstly , a company would only be able to issue preference shares with limited or no voting rights up to 50% of its issued share capital and , if the preference dividends were not paid for three years , the shares would then acquire full voting rights . |
| 24 | Under these , points are allotted to projects for their expected effects on accessibility , environment , economic development , safety etc , and the results are used to help determine priorities . |
| 25 | Accidents do occur , and too frequently , usually to climbers on its dangerous cliffs , but these are due to human frailty and misjudgments , not to venomous attacks by the Ben . |
| 26 | But Tommaso Talvi was the type to jaw about whatever new scheme had taken his fancy and then jeopardise everybody around with his big boasting empty talk . |
| 27 | Moreover , radicals with reservations about the socialist credentials of the USSR confronted the dilemma that every word of criticism aligned them with the ‘ reactionary ’ views dominant in the West : to attack Moscow , the acknowledged centre of international revolution ; was tantamount to sympathy for her capitalist enemies . |
| 28 | The attempt had failed , and the queen had withdrawn to sanctuary with her youngest son , the duke of York . |
| 29 | The attempt had failed , and the queen had withdrawn to sanctuary with her youngest son , the duke of York . |
| 30 | That to get back to part of your original question , the company existed on folders the the estate agent folders , for fifteen years . |