Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lower them slowly to shoulder height . |
| 2 | The element of distortion and the handling of the space in these paintings relates them intimately to Cubism , although most Cubist painting is close , too , in feeling to the more constructive and austere portraits , still lifes and landscapes . |
| 3 | I 've brought out a pack of cards , but when you know you 've got them only to while away the hours , they are as exciting as a stack of washing up . |
| 4 | The revelations of evil that I had experienced had brought me only to confusion and powerlessness . |
| 5 | Indeed any attempt to relate them prematurely to reality may restrict the development of the model . |
| 6 | Her joking tone matched his almost to perfection . |
| 7 | It was her left arm , however , so she was able to write out the application to my dictation , and I got someone else to type it . |
| 8 | Sources close to the leggy catwalk queen , who signed a £1.2 million pop deal , say she has written a lot of lyrics and whoever matches them best to music will go into the studio with her . |
| 9 | We send them away to school — have to , living in the depths of the country . |
| 10 | They , too , had taken to helping in the hospital and Miriam could read on their pale , shocked faces some of the terrible sights they had seen ; after a little while she sent them away to bed . |
| 11 | A practising engineer until the age of forty , Albert Ayme did not throw away his slide-rule and set-square when he decided to devote himself entirely to painting . |
| 12 | Nu was no longer concerned with politics ; he devoted himself entirely to Buddhism . |
| 13 | Others close the pupil right down , and because of the muscular effort needed to create a small round opening , cats , crocodiles and many other nocturnal animals have pupils which close to form slits . |
| 14 | Her neighbour , after helping himself well to leg of mutton as the vast dish had at last come round to him , said ( confirming her ) , ‘ Our guest of honour is a real femme du monde . ’ |
| 15 | During the past year , he decided to devote himself completely to healing and , almost as if in response , phenomena more powerful than anything before have started to happen . |
| 16 | It was partly because he got a weird buzz out of scaring himself half to death , and partly because he felt it was a kind of exorcism , to convince him he had control over his fears — and the horrors that were waiting for him round the corner of sleep . |
| 17 | If there is no-one close to home to talk to , or if you want to talk to an independent person about your worries , you could telephone ChildLine or Barnardo 's . |
| 18 | His eye measured these impressive heights coolly , relating them always to sea level rather than to their own grandeur , and correcting Boswell 's exultation over ‘ another mountain I called immense : Johnson : ‘ No ; it is no more than a considerable protuberance . ’ ’ |
| 19 | Tonight she 's putting them early to bed , before tuning in to the American election . |
| 20 | Bring them home and tell them that you 're taking them home to air . |
| 21 | Ask them home to tea . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's funny you should say that , ’ said Miss Mack 's Solicitor , from a resumed recumbent position , rather dreading his appearance as No. 11 in boots too small for him , ‘ because an uncle by marriage of mine took me once to tea with some cousin of his who had been a county cricketer and this county chap said middle and leg was best because it gave you room to cut . ’ |
| 23 | Afterwards ( another former Lancaster student ) invited me home to tea , and in the evening , and I were entertained at home by |
| 24 | The Rewards and Punishments then , whereby we should keep children in order , are quite of another kind ; and of that force , that when we can get them once to work , the Business , I think , is done , and the Difficulty is over . |
| 25 | Haul you slowly to strength , to light of day |
| 26 | ‘ Listen , Tippy , I 'll give you enough to tide you over . |
| 27 | They , they gave you enough to sort of live on . |
| 28 | I said that I was going to take you away to Arrancay with me — and keep you there away from all the bitterness and the lies . |
| 29 | Juice extractors are a good idea for people living alone because they enable you just to juice one orange at a time , when you fancy some juice , whereas a litre carton may well start fermenting before one person can drink it all . |
| 30 | She said gently , ‘ Oh , yes , I 'm sending you home to Casa Madrid . ’ |