Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a confident start United took the lead in the 17th minute when the elusive Thornley centred for Butt to rifle home a first time shot . |
| 2 | However , Mr Justice Johnson asked for permission to relist the case because he ‘ became concerned that the length of sentence imposed may have been excessive ’ . |
| 3 | Despite repeated attacks on Quentovic in the 830s and 840s , for instance , the output of the Quentovic mint , meagre in those decades ( but also in the 820s ) , became large in the latter half of Charles 's reign ; in 858 , the monks of St-Wandrille fled for safety to Quentovic . |
| 4 | Defence and prosecution lawyers are giving details of the case before a bench of 3 magistrates who will have to decide if there is sufficient evidence for the accused to be committed for trial to Crown Court . |
| 5 | This explicit relating of theory to practice is a feature which is all too often missing in texts written about language teaching . |
| 6 | Continue around side of Woodbury Hill ( d ) on overgrown track and descend with path to stile and into field next to house . |
| 7 | Applicants seeking direct entry from fifth year in Scottish schools will be considered with reference to age , experience and extra-curricular activities . |
| 8 | It can be seen that a long list of students ( or any other units ) could be used for a random sample by this means simply by numbering from beginning to end , and this could be done with an automatic increasing numbering stamp . |
| 9 | Her head beat from side to side and she said , ‘ Yes , yes , yes , yes , ’ again , then Lachlan — wiry , athletic-looking , skinny shanks ramming back and forth like some skinny bull — reached under her , pulled her up , his legs spreading , kneeling ; she hung onto him , arms round his neck , then after a few vertical stabs he threw her down , back onto the bed ; she grunted , arms still tight round his back , then she brought her legs up , right up over his thin , plunging , globe-buttocked behind , until her ankles were in the small of his back , rocking to and fro , feet crossed one over the other , locked there ; with one splayed hand she held onto his back , pressing him to her , and with the other hand she felt down the length of his body , over ribs and waist and hips , and with another grunt reached round and under , taking his balls in her hand , pressing them and kneading them and squeezing them . |
| 10 | A cat or monkey using its perceptual powers in leaping from wall to wall , or branch to branch , needs some representation of stability and support . |
| 11 | It darted up a tree with breathtaking ease , and the young man watched it leaping from bough to bough , as light and airy as a puff of grey smoke . |
| 12 | The tips of the fingers and toes are equipped with sucker-like discs that help them to cling on , and the long tail is used as a balance and brake when leaping from branch to branch . |
| 13 | Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs , so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which , in the broad sense , can be called imitation . |
| 14 | As it was , he stood in front of Lucie 's chair leaping from foot to foot and gesticulating wildly . |
| 15 | If you want to see dazzling feats of mountaineering , with animals leaping from ledge to ledge across gaping chasms , then look to the chamois . |
| 16 | Having lived in Australia for some years and witnessed forest fires , leaping from tree to tree and running along the thin covering of bush and grass , I could enter imaginatively into the prophet 's experience . |
| 17 | She saw Ace , getting nearer , wide-eyed with concern , leaping from rock to rock . |
| 18 | Then he slapped his thigh , stood up , leaping from embarrassment to action . |
| 19 | Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs , so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which , in the broad sense , can be called imitation . |
| 20 | In 45-minute classes infants grapple with walking in time to music , marching , pony-trotting ; facial expressions and gestures are tested , too . |
| 21 | Playing squash was the only time Penny wore a bra — without it , as she said , her boozums would bounce from wall to wall faster than the ball . |
| 22 | At first their mother 's sister had come from time to time but she and Moran had quarrelled . |
| 23 | Unlike most forms of home territory , however , Ends are not colonized in opposition to authority . |
| 24 | Other international companies are moving in the same direction and many , like ICI and BP , are firmly committed in principle to community regeneration . |
| 25 | ‘ But if they become part of the post-1994 set up , clever non-producers will join the company that pays the best price — and could jump from company to company on a regular basis , ’ forecast Nestle 's chief milk buyer , John Ross . |
| 26 | The Social Work Department 's involvement with homelessness lies in relation to Community Care legislation . |
| 27 | what about we , and if I , if one of her suppliers I asked them , if I said well okay , if we feature your outfit here , how much lead time you ne , do you need from order to production ? |
| 28 | They bounced from wall to wall , crossing and recrossing , and the violet light flickered in time with the sound . |
| 29 | Although the commitment to religion was stressed from time to time , often in response to the charge of militarism , the CLB always seemed to emphasize matters of social discipline and conformity . |
| 30 | But this Alexandro , his house is er cracked from corner to cornerl |