Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A had no proprietary interest in the farm but had transmitted earlier offers for it to the bank who were trustees of it . |
| 2 | Who cared about him to the depths of her soul , even though he was , in his own mind , completely underserving of her love . |
| 3 | She knew he cared , he showed it , but he would n't say the things she wanted to hear — that he cared for her to the exclusion of all others , and wanted her in his life to the exclusion of all others . |
| 4 | You needed to use imagination to see through it to the ground below . |
| 5 | The figure of Mercy points to the nature of the redemptive process : Later still , Julian of Norwich , whose mystical experience arose out of meditation on the Passion , defined her sense of a dynamic power of divine love working to process the effects of sin as the work of Christ : " and there is in him bleding and praying for us to the Father — and is and shall be as long as it nedith " . |
| 6 | We have come through it to the extent that I am north and west Belfast Branch Secretary . |
| 7 | She moved past him to the kitchen , where she put the kettle on the gas . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , thank you , ’ she replied shortly , intending to slip past him to the treatment area to begin preparing for the first of the morning 's patients . |
| 9 | What they really refer to and bring to expression is his meaning for us ; and their significance is to be grasped afresh , not by their simple repetition , but by returning behind them to the history of Jesus ' life and teaching , and to the message of his cross and resurrection . |
| 10 | Fortunately , she was petite and thin , almost to the point of emaciation , but all the same Sabine needed all her strength to struggle with her to the grass on the opposite side of the road . |
| 11 | Ada Thompson who knew Herbert Varley who was married to a Jewish girl , asked Daisy , one dank and drizzling November afternoon two years ago , to come with her to the Mandelbaums ' . |
| 12 | So he divided the people , half to scour the right bank of the river down the forested links and narrows as far as the meadows above Logierait and force a signature from every proprietor , half to come with him to the north side ; they would all meet at Haugh of Ballechin after the sun had set and plan for tomorrow . |
| 13 | It was only when he asked her to come with him to the bushes at the bottom of the garden — something which she did willingly — and tried to force her to have sex with him that Myra became frightened and ran away . |
| 14 | ‘ Signor Skof , we would like you to come with us to the barracks to answer some questions , ’ one of them said ; and the other : ‘ You will be allowed home this afternoon . ’ |
| 15 | A Briton known to leaders of a charity based in Northampton discovered them and fled with them to the relative safety of Split . |
| 16 | Thoughts about how the spectacles would appear to me if I moved towards them leftwards must be related in the correct way to thoughts about how they would look if I moved above them to the right ; thoughts about their being artefacts must be related to thoughts about their not existing before a certain time or not coming into existence in the kitchen as the kettle boils . |
| 17 | Smiling shakily back and in response to his urging , she sank with him to the floor . |
| 18 | Anybody come with me to the hospital |
| 19 | There was quite a wide space between stone and stone , but Jenny felt sure that she could jump from one to the other quite easily . |
| 20 | You 'd be stupid to go across the stepping stones if you did n't have the power to jump from one to the other , pretty big , but the , so are the distances between them and at that time of the year the river was pretty high too and r rather boisterous , so it would n't be very pleasant if you had fallen in , but you 've got to have that but you 've also got to have stamina as you said , but it would n't have been any fun if you 'd got halfway across and your stamina had run out , then fire brigade called out , the fire brigade or something . |
| 21 | Experts continue to disagree about how to extrapolate from one to the other , although it is generally accepted that even the smallest dose carries a health risk . |
| 22 | In a classroom it can give you the students ' view of the teacher , it can give you the teacher 's view of the students or it can be an observer which sits at the side of the class and looks from one to the other . |
| 23 | Howard looks from one to the other in astonishment . |
| 24 | This can be expressed in Hume 's terms of the tendency of the mind to pass from one to the other , but one must be careful how one interprets such a tendency . |
| 25 | ‘ I believe , ’ said the commissioner who reported on it to the Health of Towns Commission in 1845 , |
| 26 | The deaths of casuals or sudden or accidental deaths occurring among the inmates had to be reported by him to the Minister within twenty-four hours , and he had ‘ forthwith ’ to inform the master of every case of serious or dangerous illness in the institution . |
| 27 | Apparently she then picked herself up and in fact ran from the scene but Mrs did n't stop and did n't make enquiries as to who the girl was and neither was the matter reported by her to the police in due course . |
| 28 | Tracy , of Derwent Street , Darlington , yesterday recovering from her ordeal , said she was walking by herself to the video shop when she heard the car racing up the alley . |
| 29 | Stateless societies are so constituted that the kaleidoscopic succession of concrete social situations provides the stimulus that motivates each individual to act for his own interest or for that of close kin and neighbours with whom he is so totally involved , in a manner which maintains the fabric of society … the lack of specialized roles and the resulting multiplex quality of social networks mean that neither economic nor political ends can be exclusively pursued by anyone to the detriment of society , because the ends are intertwined with each other and further channelled by ritual and controlled by the beliefs which ritual expresses . |
| 30 | Talk of the Rector and his unruly family , of her wild Harry 's doings at Oxford , of the poor hunting season it had been , all flowed between her and Aunt Emily and when she rose to go , and Alexandra held out her hand in farewell , Mrs Burrows stalked past her to the door as if she had no more real existence than an armchair . |