Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At school they concealed it automatically from masters and other boys : the secrecy was enjoyable for its own sake , and in any case Emor would have been labelled ‘ childish ’ — the sort of behaviour that was only one step removed from taking a teddy bear to bed with you at night . |
| 2 | You can save time and effort by using a British agent to book for you . |
| 3 | The evidence is that the magnates infinitely preferred strong royal rule to lack of it ; for no king could have ousted powerful ruling cliques without support . |
| 4 | However , if you need to get onto port tack as soon as possible , then go behind any big group and tack into the ( probably ) larger gap to windward of them . |
| 5 | While the female crouches , quivering her wings and fluffing up her feathers , the male hops from side to side behind her , pecking at her cloaca ( the joint exit of digestive and reproductive systems ) . |
| 6 | While working the FAXgrabber icon appears at the bottom of the screen and little bracket symbols move from side to side underneath it to tell you that it is operating . |
| 7 | But it has since been recognised that this was wrong and that what is termed ‘ sub-maximal ’ exercise is beneficial to health , protects against heart attacks and is an important aid to recovery after them . |
| 8 | Academician Dmitriy Likhachev , the highly-respected Chairman of the Russian International Culture Fund said : ‘ If such a policy towards culture continues , I will have to apply for citizenship in a foreign country , because it is not worth living in a country whose government has an attitude to culture like ours . |
| 9 | She took bits of chicken to bed with her and fell asleep while still chewing . |
| 10 | It takes away , no doubt , the right of the solicitor to bring an action directly the work is done , but it does not take away his right to payment for it , which is the cause of action . |
| 11 | dissenting ) [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 790 allowing an appeal by the respondent , the Woolwich Equitable Building Society ( now the Woolwich Building Society ) , from the decision of Nolan J. [ 1989 ] 1 W.L.R. 137 that the right to repayment to them by the revenue of sums of £42,426,421 , £2,856,821 and £11,714,969 paid by Woolwich pursuant to a demand by the revenue under the Income Tax ( Building Societies ) Regulations 1986 , which were subsequently held to have been ultra vires , arose only at the moment of the decision as to the invalidity of the Regulations and not from the time that the payments were made . |
| 12 | turning a blind eye to harassment of you by your colleagues ; |
| 13 | There were moments when he took on too much ; and although I pursued the matter of our volume only because he had invited me to do so , I soon realized that I was asking more than I should have done , especially as I was uncertain at any moment whether my collaborators saw eye to eye with me about the scope of our project . |
| 14 | They brought him back as a Caretaker to General Manager and really I did n't see eye to eye with him . |
| 15 | He said he could not serve on that sub-committeee ( consisting of Brian Close , Bob Appleyard , Phil Sharpe , Bryan Stott , Tony Woodhouse ) ‘ when I do not see eye to eye with them on any subject ’ . |
| 16 | And if an objective moral standard is thrown over , what is to stop the majority in society — or even a minority in power — from putting away in a mental institution those who do not see eye to eye with them until they are " cured " ? |
| 17 | ‘ It was an extremely popular programme and we always saw eye to eye about it . |
| 18 | Names like Caruso , Chaliapin , Melchior , Gigli , Martinelli , Ruffo , Schipa and Tibbett , or Tetrazzin , Galli-Curci , Muzio and Ponselle need to recommendation from me at £8.50 ( £6.25 cassette ) . |
| 19 | The effect of evacuation was to flood the dark places with light and bring home to the national consciousness that the ‘ submerged tenth ’ described by Charles Booth still exists in our towns like a hidden sore , poor , dirty and crude in its habits , an intolerable and degrading burden to decent people forced by poverty to neighbour with it . |
| 20 | Occasionally we encountered a bus or truck hurtling down towards us , slamming on the brakes at the last minute to edge past us with inches to spare . |
| 21 | The Gospel of the God of Grace from top to ground over you . |
| 22 | The Gospel of the God of Grace from top to ground over you . |
| 23 | Although Southall likes to wear black — he was head to toe in it on international duty for Wales in Belgium on Wednesday — he has n't lost his colourful sense of humour . |
| 24 | Do not give in and take your puppy to bed with you ; rather , invest in some cotton wool for your ears ! |
| 25 | If you heard that someone had taken an amethyst to bed with them , you 'd probably think that they 'd forgotten to take off their jewellery . |
| 26 | If , however , we do apply anthropological and linguistic perspectives to this recent work on the consequences of literacy , as I claim we must despite its claim to protection from them , then that work in fact turns out to be as biased as that of the earlier phases . |
| 27 | He took her by both hands , and drew her up to stand breast to breast with him . |
| 28 | In seconds , his breath was warm on her cheek , and her eyes flew open as she felt him chest to chest above her . |
| 29 | THE woman juror whose looks prompted a man to wolf-whistle at her in court yesterday said she was secretly flattered and took it as a compliment . |
| 30 | Perhaps , though , you could get a message to Cabochon for me . ’ |