Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun pl] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The world No 1 blames the media for the pressure which almost cost him the Open Championship at Muirfield — and also blitzed the Americans for their win-at-all-costs attitude to the Ryder Cup . |
| 2 | She also regularly accompanied groups of her women students to the Cambridge Summer School . |
| 3 | I stood with my hands palm to palm in a praying position and pleaded with him . |
| 4 | Fred sat on the end of the bed with his elbows on his knees and his hands hanging down with their knuckles back to back , like a tired football player in a dressing-room . |
| 5 | By 1819 the balance of war had turned against Morillo , first in Venezuela , then in New Granada ; with his armies shrunken to 2,500 men , without pay or supplies , bothered by corrupt local officials , only a new expedition could save the situation in the north . |
| 6 | A camera on the far side moved , swung in to stare at Michael Bridges , sitting on George 's right , and came so close that George could see inside its Cyclops eye to the movement of the focusing mechanism . |
| 7 | Ambiguous words spoken in anger , or intended merely as a reprimand , may in your eyes amount to words of dismissal , even if there is no constructive dismissal . |
| 8 | Does the expression of the testator 's conviction that property will be passed to his sons amount to the creation of a trust in their favour ? |