Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each addressed location in one of my sperms corresponds to a particular addressed location in every other one of my sperms , and in every one of your eggs ( or sperms ) . |
| 2 | Through the approaches I have described I have aimed to give my pupils access to a broad and balanced mathematical curriculum . |
| 3 | IN THE run-up to last Thursday I found my thoughts turning to a story Alistair Cooke once told to explain the most notorious of all opinion poll upsets , Truman 's victory over Dewey in 1948 . |
| 4 | Last year , the Booker foods group sold its Healthcrafts range to a Danish company called Ferrosan . |
| 5 | The people who are losing their homes belong to a settled community with centuries-old traditions . |
| 6 | At first she only saw the dark shape of the forest beside the road , then as her eyes adjusted to a faint lifting of the gloom a narrow laneway appeared between the trees . |
| 7 | Her eyes plunged to a russet flecked deep green when she talked about him . |
| 8 | She looked hastily away — and found her eyes glued to a body that had no business being so magnetically attractive . |
| 9 | His impulse to clutch at her and lift her skirt and dabble with finger and thumb in her recesses led to a quick shame , and he was so appalled that he could not push her from him either but let her , still attached to his hand , mutter her compliments , in disjointed phrases falling pell mell . |
| 10 | And traditional handbag makers are injecting more fun and fashion into their designs to appeal to a wider audience , while maintaining the quality which makes them so distinctive . |
| 11 | Critical Path Analysis is a computer programme into which variables relating to a particular project are fed . |
| 12 | LASMO and its contractors worked to a very fast schedule , which meant that costs were kept well controlled . |
| 13 | I saw the engine powerfully at work , its wires running to a monstrous figure , about which the scientist flitted in nervous excitement , Presently the figure sat up in its bandages . |
| 14 | Suddenly , the immense wall of molten lava bearing down from Mount Etna on to their doorsteps came to a halt . |
| 15 | Their cries receding to a point |
| 16 | Like the GLC , it had been abolished , and its responsibilities passed to a joint organization of ten Manchester boroughs . |
| 17 | Retail companies may want to know the answers to the following kinds of questions : * How far do its customers travel to a specific store or " branch ? * What is the direction from which they travel ? * In what type of area do they live ? * That are their lifestyles and purchasing habits ? * How much of a town or area remains untapped by a shop located in it ? |
| 18 | The large drawing-room is reached through a garden room , its terraces leading to a Jacobean rose garden . |
| 19 | Amanullah had been influenced by what he saw as the modernising reforms introduced in Turkey and Iran : he tried to build up a central army , organised a parliament , and decreed that women should wear western dress : the final straw for the tribes came when he made their leaders listen to a five-day speech . |
| 20 | Ramblers were often trained as weeping standards , with their stems tied to a vertical pole and then fanned out over a series of hoops to cascade down to the ground . |
| 21 | Almost half of the respondents expected their farms to go to a member of the next generation . |
| 22 | It would boost their egos to talk to a director of a leading bank , or a key man in a well-known company as an equal , and it was incredibly revealing how little such high up people seemed to know about shares , how desperately motivated they were by greed . |
| 23 | In the first place , by 1986 , teachers and other educational staff had seen the purchasing power of their salaries slip to a half or a third of their 1980 value . |
| 24 | Their growls change to a panting whine . |
| 25 | And since Gilbert de Clare died in Brittany on his way home from this French campaign , the earldom of Gloucester and all its lands go to a child , and boy and barony are handed over to de Burgh . |
| 26 | It is impossible not to feel the contrast between the reception which Ministers give to a body of owners and a body of miners . |
| 27 | Her breasts deflated to a simple 34B — no , 34A , even better . |
| 28 | She is lying on her back ; her breasts adjust to a new position tardily as though they contain some viscous substance , set fling gradually as she raises herself on her elbow . |
| 29 | Users with a horror of suddenly finding their workstations grinding to a snail 's pace need not worry since they can stop LoadLeveler from using their machines when they are logged on . |
| 30 | Her thoughts came to a sudden standstill when , to her embarrassment , her tummy rumbled noisily . |