Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [pron] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar . |
| 2 | The hands Maria had raised to Luke 's shoulders strayed eagerly to the back of his neck and up into the thickness of his dark hair , her fingers pressing themselves to the perfect shaping of his skull as she sought and claimed a deeper kiss , drawing him far into the warm moist depths of her mouth . |
| 3 | The story begins on a May morning in 1991 , when Brian Mattison awoke early to see a heron helping himself to a fish breakfast . |
| 4 | In theory , the EMS is a means by which the currencies of the EC are maintained at a stable exchange rate with one another ; in practice , it means all the weaker currencies aligning themselves to the strongest , the Deutsche Mark . |
| 5 | British Champion Colin McRae pushing everything to the limits … it requires rapid changes through the gear box … even when cornering … now in the Banbury factory of Prodrive engineers have spent 18 months developing a semi-automatic gear box … they 're already becoming common in Formula One … now for the first time they 've been successfully introduced in a rally car … with just a touch of a button the driver can change gear without having to take his hand off the steering wheel . |
| 6 | We would like to se the political parties commiting themselves to an overhaul of the sentencing process to make it more rational and civilised . |
| 7 | We expected handshakes all round , the departure of the PM to affairs of state , and an aide leading us to an ante-room for ginger snaps and coffee . |
| 8 | Sandwiched between them are Gloucester who lost their 100 per cent record at Saracens , the London club holding them to a 12–12 draw . |
| 9 | A Mr Big character showed the pre-pubescents the gigging ropes , a set of Status Quo covers taking them to the giddy heights of 600 capacity community discos . |
| 10 | As we approached we could hear the real Chairman of the Ontario Jockey Club welcoming everyone to the adventure and we could see Zak and the other actors waiting for him to finish so that they could get on with the mystery . |
| 11 | Against the left-hand wall stood an old-fashioned gas stove so heavy that Meg was unable to move it to clean behind it and preferred not to think of the accumulated grease of decades gumming it to the wall . |
| 12 | Rather than ‘ structuring tasks for collaboration ’ , it was more a process of ‘ structuring a learning environment for collaboration ’ , with each of the elements contributing something to the whole and therefore needing to be understood in relation to the whole . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm interested in knowing more about you , ’ he said musingly , leaning back in his chair , the heavy-lidded grey gaze unsettling her to a degree she found hard to accept . |
| 14 | Thus , a use of eloquent formal language , a confident employment of a literary heritage , and a preoccupation with either metaphysical themes or the large issues of state of especial interest to those in the governing classes are normally upheld as critical sign-posts directing us to the period 's ‘ greatest ’ writing . |
| 15 | The two men , who had escaped from a coach taking them to the magistrates ' court in Reading , were taken to hospital to have their broken arms set in plaster . |
| 16 | The heads of the Valuation Department guaranteed me enough work to justify my continued employment , one of my many visits taking me to the Channel Islands during the ‘ phoney war ’ , while the enemy were occupied with Russia . |
| 17 | A further door led off to the right , with a tiled passage taking her to the bathroom , and another large square room at the end , which was probably the dining-room . |
| 18 | Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ . |
| 19 | We bowed and left , Catesby showing us to the door . |
| 20 | Life is good … one can understand these people behind the lines resigning themselves to the war … |
| 21 | Additionally , the holder clamp for the lower bearing of the main rotor drive shaft had torn away from the bracket mounting it to the airframe structure . |
| 22 | She turned her face away , embarrassment bringing her to the brink of tears . |
| 23 | That means understanding the principles of communication and custom applying them to a campaign , not just throwing hardware at people and showing them the switches . |
| 24 | Anyway the second school favoured scarlet cross-overs , the lady in charge directing me to a local wool shop where I could buy the yarn and a ( hand knitting ) pattern . |
| 25 | Her gaze was drawn to the firm lines of his sensuous mouth , the lean-muscled body forcing her to a recognition of his powerful masculinity . |
| 26 | She did mind , though , and , as they were met at the emergency entrance with a wheeled stretcher-bed for Faye and a paged message for Tom summoning him to the renal unit to attend urgently to another patient , her concern for Faye 's condition battled for priority in her thoughts with painful images of Marise Wyspianski glowing in the magic aura of Tom 's kiss , and of Tom himself , at the wheel of the Mercedes just moments ago , staring so grimly into the Christmas Eve traffic . |
| 27 | When news of the event reached the graveyard cottage Willie had overheard Tom muttering something to the effect that it was a wonder the tree did n't have to be taken too . |
| 28 | Is there any point taking it to a local Sainsburys ? |
| 29 | In January 1945 he was arrested in Krakow by the Gestapo but managed to escape from the transport taking him to a concentration camp . |
| 30 | And are we to think that this loving God really wants us to linger on in pain and without dignity when , according to the same dogma , He is in any case calling us to a better life ? |