Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the late 1920s these cars were really in need of drastic rebuilding and from 1927 , it was possible to send them away to Hendon for this to be done properly . |
| 2 | From the time of the Russian counter-offensive in mid-November 1942 , the Wehrmacht reports — seen and amended by Hitler himself — were largely silent about Stalingrad , and Goebbels , probably not fully informed of the true situation , confined himself largely to warnings about the severity of the struggle and the need to avoid the impression that a decisive stroke was imminent . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | They , they gave you enough to sort of live on . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | but really I mean you need the odd week at home do n't you really to sort of do bits to it , you ca n't work and do it |
| 8 | For any adult education movement which addresses itself seriously to education for social change , such alliances are of profound importance — as arenas within which really useful knowledge can be learned , as subjects for learning from , and as sites of practical intervention in the form of participatory research and independent analysis . |
| 9 | The manufacture and installation of ventilators became a substantial part of Yeoman 's business , and , after making a start at Northampton hospital and gaol in 1748–9 , he fitted them also to gaols in Shrewsbury , Bedford , Aylesbury , and Maidstone , and to the naval hospitals in Portsmouth , Gosport , and Plymouth . |
| 10 | It was a miserable business pining for those who had gone and she thought back with something close to horror of the unhappiness she had endured while wishing herself elsewhere . |
| 11 | She looked at Scott , something close to pity in her voice . |
| 12 | Gerald Seymour-Strachey looked at him with something close to outrage on his face : ‘ No , no — nothing of the kind . |
| 13 | The MOUTH vowel [ P9 ] is especially interesting because it shows all the possible variants , from the extreme basilectal variant which occurs before /n/ in sound [ ] through the JC/JE variant [ ] and [ ] , something close to RP in down [ ] to the Cockney variant in [ ] twice . |
| 14 | We can again feel the wind , the warmth and the cold on our body , which is a new experience for many and does , in some strange way , draw one closer to Nature for that reason alone . |
| 15 | His beautiful and adored mother quickly appeared from the sitting-room and hugged him nearly to death on the doorstep . |
| 16 | Far better that its messengers take it only to plants of exactly the same kind where the genes it carries will unite with eggs and form seeds . |
| 17 | ‘ The Mayor is desperate to attract more money — not give it away to things like the US Open , which is more than able to take care of itself ’ , he said . |
| 18 | Anyone who wants to make a donation can send it directly to Kevin at Leeds . |
| 19 | As one group member said : ‘ What I 'd like to see happening is this room set up with the computer and using it regularly to type up the notes from our meetings . ’ |
| 20 | She took the memory of it upstairs to bed with her , but all the time that she wrote she could see him sitting there as he had been when he had first lit the lamp , his face full of an old pain . |
| 21 | Well , both of them should have been wearing their life jackets before they were over water , and X should not have stowed the dinghy in the locker area when he could have kept it closer to hand on one of the spare rear seats . |
| 22 | You might think that the second group find it easier to transition to what is , after all , only one half of the problems they 've been used to cope with aboard their twins . |
| 23 | Many are being refitted with the same smart new decor which will make them easier to spot on the high street . |
| 24 | My time in submarines had brought me closer to people of a totally different background and I had learnt a great deal from my sailors about their home circumstances before the war . |
| 25 | The cumulative revelation of an ordered universe convinced most Rational Dissenters , following Newton , that greater understanding brought them closer to God through familiarity with His design . |
| 26 | Again , in 1981–7 the Volkswagenstiftung funded on a large scale the ARCOS project , a system which photographs a three-dimensional archaeological object , provides a drawing and converts it into data which lend themselves easily to methods like Cluster Analysis . |
| 27 | Southampton , who sent West Ham to the bottom of the division six weeks ago with a similar scoreline at The Dell , have hauled themselves close to safety with a run of one defeat in 13 matches . |
| 28 | Undaunted by their failure to attract a buyer at the sale , Alexia Lindsay ( of the Ephemera stall ) drove them afterwards to Chorley in Lancashire , where a shop called Girls Gone By gave 200 for them . |
| 29 | From the idealised symbols of romance and exoticism , through the agonised posturing of the beauty parlour , Messager 's story leads us inevitably to reconstructions of childhood memories , toys stacked and stifled , infiltrated by the fetishism of photography . |
| 30 | B While the legends of the First Age are a ‘ calque ’ , then , their resemblance to a known pattern directs us primarily to difference from that pattern ; the elvishness of the elves is meant to reflect back on the humanity of man . |