Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | And none of us like to thing we 've been conned . |
3 | So we got but we got a hundred percent acting or something and the two masters are gon na take us out , the five of us out to dinner . |
4 | ‘ People were looking for something closer to nature than races like the Paris-Dakar . ’ |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Gerald Seymour-Strachey looked at him with something close to outrage on his face : ‘ No , no — nothing of the kind . |
7 | He glares at Eva with something close to hatred . |
8 | The young man glared at Harry with something close to resentment . |
9 | It was a measure of the strains of the day , or perhaps of the relief at finding the sympathetic Theodora , that the Archdeacon was precipitated into something close to indiscretion . |
10 | You ride high and comfortably , with everything conveniently to hand . |
11 | Disturbed , Isa proposed Wilson and Pilade should come with her up to Bellosguardo for the afternoon and , since no protest was made , she hustled the two of them into her waiting carriage and whisked them off at once , leaving Maria with instructions to be there upon their return . |
12 | And disappear with it back to university . |
13 | When I am so self-centred that I would not dream of asking the Spirit for his strength , preferring to go my own way , I am encouraged to recall that ‘ God is at work in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure ’ ( Phil . |
14 | I mean take the example that Hugh is always using , is that if I wanted to knock a wall through , a hole through that wall and put a door in there with a link in it surely to goodness we |
15 | Whilst other people recognise that the alcohol-induced sense of unconditioned acceptance is a false sensation , the sufferers from addictive disease may cling to it even to death rather than face up to the reality of the need to accept any conditions in life . |
16 | On he way to class one day a passer by noticed the Medau badge on her tracksuit and said to her companion ‘ Oh look , there 's the magic word ! ’ |