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 ! ’
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