Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Nicholson led them through to another solid steel gate . |
| 2 | But even among the backward and traditional , two kinds of country people were the major pillars of the ancient ways — the old and the women , whose ‘ old wives ’ tales ' passed them on to new generations , and occasionally , for the benefit of city men , to collectors of folklore and folksong . |
| 3 | He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon . |
| 4 | We just passed them out to crazy people and artistes and people who were always on the scene in New York . |
| 5 | Molly moved them carefully to one end of the bar before she hung up Hugh 's clothes and her summer dresses . |
| 6 | Griffith now heated his rods in the middle and drew them down to thinner and thinner fibres which after cooling he also broke in tension . |
| 7 | Clare helped herself liberally to holy water at the entrance , but it was warm on her forehead . |
| 8 | Hands gripped her shoulders and moved her gently to one side . |
| 9 | One voice followed another , and she had almost stopped listening altogether when a sudden difference jerked her back to avid attention . |
| 10 | The arrival of the waiter with their fritters jerked her back to full awareness of her surroundings . |
| 11 | And I went through them and I I narrowed it down to three things now . |
| 12 | ‘ Old Mossycop 's the problem , he let anyone in to that place . |
| 13 | and I moved it over to that corner there , where nothing else grows |
| 14 | The make you , sort of what were doing when making another member of staff , so there 's a going on full time having free coffee like Dinda did , much change it to be , but I mean it 's just there for free , all day every day , she 's now ten penny piece in , they get a card , get a little pin pricked on , every time they used it up to twenty they get twenty cups of coffee on its card |
| 15 | In the late 16th century there was a short period when , rather than the usual 13 ribs , lutes suddenly sprouted anything up to 37 and made of very narrow strips of yew . |
| 16 | I had heard the bell toll … the wave of ecstasy which drove me on to this shore had pressed me into a dark , dull interior . |
| 17 | He lifted himself on to one elbow , looking down at her ; a finger of light from the street-lamp outside crept between the curtains , touching her face . |
| 18 | He lifted himself on to one elbow and looked down at her . |
| 19 | Suppressing a grunt of pain , Defries lifted herself on to one elbow and looked round . |
| 20 | As his chauffeur drove him back to Blue Ash Farm in the Lincoln , he decided it was love which gave her that special glow , that sparkle , that vivacity which drew the young men round her like flies . |
| 21 | He eventually whittled it down to eighteen thousand and his successors have since reduced the number even more dramatically . |
| 22 | The next day he even drove us out to some local farms in his Land Rover to assess their suitability . |
| 23 | There is no question that well designed Italianate lent itself admirably to that display of powerful dignity which the railways were currently trying to achieve . |
| 24 | This sociability and cooperation lent itself ideally to communal hunting techniques because , as I have shown elsewhere , hunting success , even among well-adapted hunting animals — which , of course , our hominid ancestors most decidedly were not — is generally proportional to the number of hunters involved . |
| 25 | But , whatever their knowledge , of far greater importance in official thinking was the strategic value of a power source which lent itself naturally to centralized control , which was operated by a well paid , reliable work-force and which would continue to keep the miners at bay . |
| 26 | No I had a Group Manager who actually introduced me to this , I erm , I work out with him , but , he brought a , actually what turned me on to this was the fact that erm , where he is , he 's thirty six now , and erm , he 's got no mortgages , he 's got a , he paid eleven thousand pounds for a , a Kawasaki Z Z eleven hundred R super bike , worth that is |
| 27 | His employer paid him up to that point . |
| 28 | He reached for the engine control and turned it up to full power . |
| 29 | ‘ We drummed it in to all three of our children not to go off with strangers and Johanna was sensible enough to listen , ’ said Robert . |
| 30 | He got a key to the blanket store and rented it out to randy nurses and hungry walking-wounded , many of whom he had introduced in the first place . |