Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fingers were long , unnaturally thin , the skin on them so clear it seemed he could see right through them to the bone itself . |
| 2 | He looked thoughtfully from her to the dresser . |
| 3 | Isabel 's gaze skittered nervously past them to the two men-at-arms , now held at the end of a very businesslike sword attached to the hand of the young man she had seen with Guy at the church . |
| 4 | This can now be seen at Scotland 's only Thai restaurant , Buntom 's in Nelson Street , the proprietors having given most generously for it to the cause . |
| 5 | And he picked up Gabriel with just one arm round his hips , and stumped stolidly away with him to the privacy of the inn . |
| 6 | If you are n't as good as if you were in church , the train wo n't come , and we sha n't go away in it to the ends of the earth . |
| 7 | At first this was hard to prove , since local authorities were now given many new relief duties : at the same time a number of extensive taxation rights were transferred away from them to the Centre . |
| 8 | The summons of Winchelsey to Rome only served to redirect baronial irritation away from him to the pope . |
| 9 | He examined the long split-level room stretching away from him to the tall windows at the far end . |
| 10 | The ravine widened and opened upon the sly , the curtain-wall with its vast bulk of darkness curved away from him to the right , and left him . |
| 11 | I measure sixty paces along the wall and then walk away from it to the nearest tree . |
| 12 | Jane Postlethwaite looked uncertainly from one to the other . |
| 13 | Before Rachel could reply , Ace walked quickly past them to the communications terminal . |
| 14 | Now they have developed , with the help of Professor Van Aken of Utrecht University , a simple method of Roentgen photography , whereby a low-powered X-ray ( 220 volts exactly , which are converted to 5000 volts ) passes through the paper and exposes the negative directly behind it to the exact amount of radiation needed to show up the detailed structure of the impression left by the mould and the watermark . |
| 15 | In 1913 , Liam Murphy did sail for New York without Nellie , promising to send for her ‘ as soon as he was settled ’ but Nessie O'Neil was n't sure and took her daughter home with her to the farm ‘ for company ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ We have therefore suspended the Winchester Group as an appointed representative of the Norwich Union to take effect immediately and to continue until such time as they hear further from us to the contrary . |
| 17 | Then looking quickly from one to the other , she added , ‘ At least for … for children . ’ |
| 18 | He glanced quickly from one to the other as if aware of the tension then said , ‘ Would you like me to come back later ? ’ |
| 19 | The various types of radiation have different wavelengths ; if we consider them in terms of increasing or decreasing wavelength , the types of radiation blend gradually from one to the next . |
| 20 | ‘ You think I should keep two establishments and sneak furtively from one to the other like some sort of guilty adulterous cad ? ’ |
| 21 | She looked pleadingly from one to the other . |
| 22 | On land the solution was an obvious one — male and female , being well able to move about , must meet and transfer the sperm directly from one to the other . |
| 23 | She looked enquiringly from one to the other . |
| 24 | I could see straight through him to the muddy , catpaw marks on the back door . |
| 25 | In his head you probably went straight from one to the other . |
| 26 | Thai 's face turned frantically from one to the other of them , following the clipped words , the tough routine . |
| 27 | Marc smiled benignly from one to the other , the insult making Sarella 's cheeks blaze . |
| 28 | Large tears brimmed in her eyes as she stared dumbly from one to the other . |
| 29 | She looked slowly from one to the other , and it was Shannon who shook her head . |
| 30 | As with any automatic system , it is the unusual situation which can cause a problem , and here the problem is that most AF systems tend to focus on the cage bars in the foreground rather than on the animal lurking behind them — or the focus may hunt nervously from one to the other . |