Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood with my hands palm to palm in a praying position and pleaded with him . |
| 2 | But how would the British react to being given the chance to air their views face to face with a politician ? |
| 3 | Is it in order for them to continue clearly to deceive the House , when the chairman of Ford of Britain has said that their policies amount to economic suicide ? |
| 4 | A camera on the far side moved , swung in to stare at Michael Bridges , sitting on George 's right , and came so close that George could see inside its Cyclops eye to the movement of the focusing mechanism . |
| 5 | The world No 1 blames the media for the pressure which almost cost him the Open Championship at Muirfield — and also blitzed the Americans for their win-at-all-costs attitude to the Ryder Cup . |
| 6 | All these aims will be much easier to achieve now that they have met their customers face to face and talked over their problems . |
| 7 | It had been a bitter pill to swallow , and she had made her feelings plain to the man her husband had been friends with since his childhood . |
| 8 | The kids who have experienced the problems of occupational discrimination and believe their opportunities are limited make their beliefs public to those with whom they most identify — in this case , other blacks . |
| 9 | With declining sales of Cyber systems and changing industry fashions the leasing business shrank and CDC sold its peripherals operation to Seagate Technology some three years ago . |
| 10 | My clients were relieved , but the brothers , George and Mike Stevens , were not , and had made their feelings plain to Andrew Buccleuth in language that he did not normally hear outside the fringe theatre , of which he was a generous patron . |
| 11 | Away from the politics , dealers in ICI were humming first thing with the story that the chemicals giant is poised to sell its fibres division to America 's Du Pont for £300m . |
| 12 | On arms control , China agreed conditionally to accede to the 18-country Missile Technology Control Regime , which would limit its arms sales to Pakistan and Syria , in return for the lifting of US sanctions , imposed in June , on exports from two Chinese arms companies , high-technology computer sales and joint satellite launches . |
| 13 | They also point out that West Germany lifted its arms embargo to Argentina on 25 September , a fortnight after Rolls-Royce was re-granted an export licence . |
| 14 | She was kneading bread , her arms flour to the wrists , when the doorway behind her was darkened , and she knew even before she whirled to face him that this was not her father coming home from his snares . |
| 15 | Fred sat on the end of the bed with his elbows on his knees and his hands hanging down with their knuckles back to back , like a tired football player in a dressing-room . |
| 16 | How else can one explain why women are more likely than men to take their IBS symptoms to a doctor in western cultures , whereas the opposite is true in India ? |
| 17 | When you see them as grown-ups who 'd rather not grow any more , you realise that even their clothes resort to childhood in the face of responsibility and decision . |
| 18 | She also regularly accompanied groups of her women students to the Cambridge Summer School . |
| 19 | She sensed his need to avenge that waiting , but she could n't form words to protest , pulled in to him , her mouth and then her breasts captive to the erotic magic of his lips and tongue , the writhing of her body an explicit demand for more . |
| 20 | It 's thanks to the skill of surgeons and to the parents who allowed their childs heart to be donated . |
| 21 | At double weddings , the elder sister takes precedence : Mr and Mrs Charles Brown … their daughters Jennifer to Mr John Smith and Susan to Mr Peter White . |
| 22 | Does the expression of the testator 's conviction that property will be passed to his sons amount to the creation of a trust in their favour ? |
| 23 | On the other hand no manager willingly accepts a new member of staff without the use of a selection interview , no doctor will express a confident diagnosis without an interview with the patient , and no counsellor could function without meeting his clients face to face . |
| 24 | Caledor led his Dragon-riders south to his own land . |
| 25 | A big grin appeared at the door , followed by the rest of Nigel , his trousers sodden to the waistband . |
| 26 | By 1819 the balance of war had turned against Morillo , first in Venezuela , then in New Granada ; with his armies shrunken to 2,500 men , without pay or supplies , bothered by corrupt local officials , only a new expedition could save the situation in the north . |
| 27 | He spent the 1980s building up his communications group to one of the world 's largest , in everything from printing to newspapers to satellite TV . |
| 28 | He attempted to link his social-systems analysis to Freud 's analysis of the super-ego as the point of overlap between social , cultural and personality systems . |
| 29 | Looking over his left shoulder , he raises his arms perpendicular to his sides . |
| 30 | At this time of year he would normally move his hives north to the Derbyshire peak district , to take advantage of the flowering heather . |