Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] to [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quigley et al. ( 1976 ) report on the tendency of deaf children to try to fit subject — verb — object patterns on to all sentence constructions . |
| 2 | Body position and movement also play an important part — although the fact that turns latch on to each other successfully in telephone conversations seems to suggest that these factors , like gaze , are perhaps not as important as might at first appear . |
| 3 | Even to the extent that regional organizations do succeed in moderating the pursuit of purely national goals , as the EC has done , such organizations may themselves develop into power blocs which transpose international conflicts on to another level , in a manner which recalls the imperialist rivalries of the earlier part of this century . |
| 4 | THE Queen , rather pre-occupied these days , has nevertheless found time to quash attempts to strip Sir Walter Raleigh of his title for introducing the dreaded weed in to this country . |
| 5 | I feel I have let Sir Charles Irving down to some degree , ’ he added . |
| 6 | After a frightful red-headed youth with a beard had taken Hyacinth away to some dance , the party had broken up , though not before Grunte , who was tight , had made a speech about ‘ many years of close friendship … a happy ship … a united party ’ and much more of the same . |
| 7 | I know Mother traded with him from time to time , and once sent a quantity of wool away to another mill and had some back as grey blankets . |
| 8 | Keeping your weight over to that side , raise your back leg 2 ins ( 5cm ) off the floor and move it forwards and back just an inch or two . |
| 9 | Keeping your weight over to that side , raise the back leg 2ins ( 5cm ) and move it forwards and back just an inch or two . |
| 10 | Immediately , a cloud of mist hid them from their pursuers and , before it cleared , a messenger came and called the Dragoons off to another duty . |
| 11 | An inexpressible lethargy , born of shock and mingled desire , made her want to lean her head forward against him , to have her face and mouth close to that part of him which , earlier , had taken her into such a seventh heaven of ecstasy . |
| 12 | He got Svidrigailov 's nightmare past the censor , and there is a good deal more to that horror than I have quoted ; and ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ could have been got past him too . |
| 13 | One Home has had great success with an art therapist who came over to take classes , combining residents from a number of Homes close to each other . |
| 14 | *****900 WORDS UP TO THIS POINT — THE 300 BELOW CAN BE DISCARDED IF NECESSARY |
| 15 | The building had two front doors , side by side , one for each house , and the steps up to each door were not divided ; an urn full of some kind of greenery stood in the middle of the steps , but there was no attempt at distinction . |
| 16 | Furthermore , the Exeter guarantees renewal up to any age regardless of size or number of claims made . |
| 17 | The analysis of the French fabliaux up to this point has included recurrent references to the roles of readers and writers involved with these texts . |
| 18 | It is not , however , a property in the same sense as we have used the term up to this point , since it is a second-order property ; that is , it is a property of the other two relations that we have sketched so far ( and only of these ) . |
| 19 | The implicit basis of child care practice up to that point was that no fundamental conflicts of interest between parents and children , or between families and the state , were at stake in such interventions . |
| 20 | It arranges for the house to be valued to determine its minimum selling price and the employee receives a figure up to this amount from the company so that the purchase of the next property can go ahead . |
| 21 | I was doing quite well in the quiz up to that point , but my mind went a total blank on that one . |
| 22 | He debated whether it would be worth sending a scout out to that ridge , to give him better warning , but decided against it . |
| 23 | And as I I recall on a Saturday morning I used to have to take the er one and sixpence each Saturday back to this House , and they used to issue us a little receipt and I remember my father keeping all those receipts until it was paid off . |
| 24 | We shall go on living , and changing , together , and this will mean , for all of us , more life , more being , a circle of love , a mystery , a stretching out to each other in the dark — ’ |
| 25 | The rotation of the key brings the check and the hammer closer to each other . |
| 26 | It may or not surprise you that there is already an element of regional Government actually in the U K already and since development is the issue that the Labour Group has raised , we 'll take the work of the Development Association , which I was involved in in the mid eighties and which actually does some good work to actually bring industry actually to this region . |
| 27 | If genes could discover a chink of an unorthodox route through to another body ( alongside , or instead of , the orthodox sperm or egg route ) , we must expect natural selection to favour their opportunism and improve it . |
| 28 | Just before serving spoon a little mayonnaise on to each egg . |
| 29 | As you move the highlight bar on to each option , a brief explanation of that option will be displayed beneath the menu to help you . |
| 30 | This chapter is an attempt to sort these various pro- and anti-classical elements in to some kind of order . |