Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a child , I thought about this a good deal and my father would often invite me to feel the holes in his head — taking my fingers in his hand and guiding them to the slight depressions under his vaselined hair . |
| 2 | Thou hast been ‘ the cloud ’ before me from the day that I left the flesh-pots of Egypt , and was led through the way of the wilderness — the cloud that hast been guiding me to a land flowing with milk and honey — the milk of innocence , the honey of friendship ! |
| 3 | Most libraries have wall charts guiding you to the shelf groupings for the major Dewey divisions . |
| 4 | When Luke moved her back towards one of the couches , she complied mindlessly , letting him pull her down with him and turning in towards him as he drew her across him , supporting her with one arm while his free hand curved round her , instinct or experience guiding him to the concealed zip of her simple dress . |
| 5 | ‘ Sit down , ’ he repeated , guiding her to a chair . |
| 6 | His arms held her closely , guiding her to the rhythm of the music . |
| 7 | ‘ Come over here and meet the children , Rachel , ’ he said , guiding her to the group . |
| 8 | Lewis was tired , and Waqar off-glided him for two and straight-drove him to the pavilion boundary . |
| 9 | I refer to my letter of 13th August 1993 inviting you to an interview for the above position to which you were unable to attend . |
| 10 | Part of the process was interwoven with the Counter-Reformation : Philip 's Catholicism , his court and his Spanish armies and administrators became a further instrument of oppression that unified and heightened the Protestantism of the rebels ( the Inquisition was thus a means of imposing a homogeneity upon Philip 's subjects , the better to subordinate them to a uniform governance ) . |
| 11 | Brooke-Rose incorporates these into her novels but refuses to subordinate them to the narrative conventions of realism . |
| 12 | He must free himself from the control of any established church and its priests and instead subordinate them to the State . |
| 13 | Why do n't you save a bit of money by firing that debt advisor in the Council and funnel all them to the debt advice bureau outside in the regular way ? |
| 14 | Yeah but Betty you 've given all yours to the bleeding bingo man . |
| 15 | The night Ellie first wore the gown to the opera , her three eldest brothers all wolf-whistled her to the door and Patsy , his eyes like saucers , gave her a corsage of orchids and escorted her to the limousine which had come to collect her . |
| 16 | ‘ They 've hot-footed it to the airport . |
| 17 | In 1967 the owner of the Manor , Miss Dorothy Higgins , gifted it to the Alford Civic Trust who have since done much to restore it after years of neglect . |
| 18 | The 27-year-old suffered a nasty head wound from an object thrown by the burglar , but caught up with him and rugby-tackled him to the ground . |
| 19 | But the word backside outraged him to the depths of his soul . |
| 20 | Michelle has an abundance of waist-length hair and although she was prepared for a radical cut , Patrick recommended keeping the length but blunt-cutting it to a clean , straight line : ‘ You do n't have to have mountains cut off to look different , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Calling Emily , I legged it to the youth hostel two miles away . |