Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 've checked them out to your satisfaction , then fair enough . |
| 2 | She could say no more , only after a moment when he did not answer , ‘ Please do n't reproach yourself , my darling , when you have given me back to myself again . ’ |
| 3 | They used to be Bangor fans but I think I have won them over to Glentoran . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He has won me back to him . ’ |
| 5 | From the beginning of their history , the amphibians were hunters , preying on the worms , insects and other invertebrates that had preceded them on to the land . |
| 6 | I knew he 'd fought James on it tooth and nail , and though in all honesty I felt I 'd won him round to some extent since , the prejudices remained beneath the surface of benignity , waiting only for some unwary blunder on my part to crack the surface and let them burst through . |
| 7 | For a moment they struggled with each other 's clothing , tearing at the lacing , freeing themselves , and then he had lifted her on to him and was thrusting deep into her , her legs wrapped about his back , her pelvis pushing down urgently to meet his movements . |
| 8 | This probably helped undermine support for a new right-wing party , the National Democrats , whose anti-U S , anti-Soviet and anti-immigrant policies had won it up to ten per cent of support in Länder elections in 1966 — 8 . |
| 9 | Thirty had been a party for fifty , and now had honed it down to a fabulous four . |
| 10 | Stratford had leased them out to Thomas Merryat , or Merret , but by the 1620s , his grandson , John , had taken control and was leasing the mills to a Stroud textile dealer , Gyles Davis . |
| 11 | He told me this foolish theory many times , but really he was just telling it to himself : the less of a woman be made me out to be , the less of a lover he would need to be . |
| 12 | However , Chelsea fans went home deliriously happy after the club 's seventh win in eight games , a run which has moved them up to fifth place . |
| 13 | She had given up work to have the children and she 'd seen them through to school age , when she 'd gone out and found herself another job . |
| 14 | Meanwhile Turkish police have tracked her down to this resort . |
| 15 | Not only did Brown Owl go on living at Longreen and being their Brown Owl ; the Pack won an unexpected new friend in Sir George Phillips , who , when he heard how they had saved the plane 's pilot from disaster in the bog , suddenly turned out to be not ‘ crabby ’ at all , as Mr. Gordon had always made him out to be , but told them that they could use the Longreen Park meadow for just as long as they liked as a reward for their bravery . |
| 16 | ‘ He was n't as odd as you 'd made him out to be , your friend , ’ Gillian said as we left . |
| 17 | Then , as faint with pain and fear , she had whimpered , begging him to release her , he had turned her on to her back again and leapt on top of her … |
| 18 | Someone had thus moved the body , and it had to be assumed that it was the same person who had pushed her on to the plough . |
| 19 | He had kissed her goodbye and seen her on to her flight . |
| 20 | Then he heard Boy say ‘ Yes , ’ and then he heard the TV change ; Boy had got up and turned it over to a boxing match , which was something Boy never usually watched . |
| 21 | Maybe I should have turned it over to the locals … ’ |
| 22 | Yeah , Joyce has turned it down to one |
| 23 | But done it up to two or three thousand pounds for an estate , knowing that it |
| 24 | Done it up to there |
| 25 | I found out that my friend 's games , my friend 's games but he he 's lent it out to some |
| 26 | Mr Doran had moved his wife 's cake to the first position , and Mr Clancy had moved it back to the middle , saying the first cake tasted had the best chance , and his wife 's cake would be first as it had got there first . |
| 27 | I 've played through it , recorded with it , connected it up to almost everything but the kitchen sink and every time it 's delivered either the sound I wanted or something very close . |
| 28 | You can get I mean , it 's not connected up but you can have er you can have it connected it up to the ra , to the radio and get concerts through the stere |
| 29 | I had pushed it up to £25,000 . |
| 30 | Whether it was during a healing , or during one of those morning meditations , I ca n't remember , but I had to assure Christopher that although I had stayed to every meditation and seen it through to the end , and although he had brought God , and probably Jesus Christ in upon several occasions , my original It was as intact as it had ever been . |