Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Molly moved them carefully to one end of the bar before she hung up Hugh 's clothes and her summer dresses . |
| 2 | Hands gripped her shoulders and moved her gently to one side . |
| 3 | Wave after wave of a pleasure bordering on exaltation raised her gently to some peak , ebbed a little , then carried her up again , more fiercely than before . |
| 4 | He guided her backwards to one of the posts which supported the roof . |
| 5 | Short of this , he wants the Soviet Union tied more closely into the western economy , even as the ending of the cold war tied it closer to western diplomacy . |
| 6 | To keep the training crew occupied I sent them away to this vessel for a day 's rummage and to my pleasant surprise it was not long before they returned with the news that they had unearthed a vast cache of spirits and cigarettes in the ship 's hospital . |
| 7 | — His great-grandad lived next door to me for years , before they took him away to that home . |
| 8 | Her pencil rattled out a staccato rhythm on the desk-top , as she tossed it angrily to one side . |
| 9 | Compared Janet NcCalman alledged charmer and being questioned as to her using of charms confessed that she used one charm for Causing Cows bull ( called eelis dhair ) which she practices by expressing some words over water and that she gave it particularly to one NcAbhrionid in Balulise . |
| 10 | Compared Janet NcCalman alledged charmer and being questioned as to her using of charms confessed that she used one charm for Causing Cows bull ( called eelis dhair ) which she practices by expressing some words over water and that she gave it particularly to one NcAbhrionid in Balulise . |
| 11 | The date for the submission of obligatory schemes had already been extended and the Local Government Act , 1929 extended it again to l January 1934 , with power for the Minister to further extend it , but not beyond 31 December 1938 . |
| 12 | Jessamy pushed them irritably to one side and began to work on one of the dragons , filling in some of the more intricate details . |