Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun sg] to [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It hissed and moved its head to within a few centimetres of the android . |
| 2 | There is , in fact , every indication that Karajan was acutely aware of the temper of the times , though to find evidence of this we do not go to the random rag-bag of recordings he was permitted to make in the early 1940s but to what he immediately turned his mind to with Legge in Vienna in 1947 : Strauss 's Metamorphosen , a recording , still , of unparalleled intensity , and the Brahms German Requiem , a performance ( it was said to be one of Toscanini , s favourite records ) of unbearable directness and poignancy of utterance . |
| 3 | She cut her hair to about , to about there but it was once down , right down here |
| 4 | Utterly ignoring her struggles to free herself , he slid one hand beneath her hair to cup the back of her neck , and pulled her face to within a couple of inches of his own . |
| 5 | BUT , that took our average to above 2 pts a game , a spell of 4 draws brought it all back down again … so 8 wins and 4 draws will be fine this time : - ) Even better 10 wins and 2 defeats . |
| 6 | For those too young to remember the 1960s , Niki de Saint Phalle 's name conjures up wacky and colourful Nanas ( French slang for woman ) , whose harmlessness is matched only by their price tag and Partisian chic , neatly caricatured by a tacky perfume she put her name to in 1982 . |