Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean-Paul looked down at his own oiled body , then spat on to his palm for added lubrication . |
| 2 | One of the glasses had fallen on to its side and a red stain had spread from it on to the tablecloth . |
| 3 | She was wearing a tight sort of dress in shiny , slippery silk , which looked as if it had been painted on to her body . |
| 4 | The figure stepped out from the porch and the light from the street lamp spilled on to its face . |
| 5 | However , the end of the poker ripped the knuckles of the hand he had thrust up to shield himself and blood was spattered on to his face . |
| 6 | What I remember of that night resembles the memory of a dream : limbs twined round my own , and a loud , throbbing pounding noise that is my heart drumming in my ears , and a huge mouth like a scarlet flower fastened on to my mouth and my neck and my ears , and hands coiling around me and an immense and powerful heat spreading all over my body . |
| 7 | The fermentation of organic matter by gut micro-orgamisms is mediated by a number of interdependent reactions in which complex polymers are first broken down to their constituent monomers by hydrolytic enzymes synthesised by the bacteria . |
| 8 | Taking RNA as food , as Cameron had given it , would simply mean that it would be broken down to its precursor molecules in the gut before being absorbed into the bloodstream . |
| 9 | Stripped down to her petticoat , she felt too tired to undress further . |
| 10 | The car rolled on to its roof , trapping him . |
| 11 | The Arab girl rolled on to her back to balance on her shoulders , her legs spread wide with her feet pointing towards the ceiling . |
| 12 | She clutched again and again at her stomach with her crossed arms , then rolled on to her side and lay moaning , her face contorted with pain . |
| 13 | Rough hands gripped him by his crotch and the back of his neck , holding him aloft like a defenceless struggling insect tipped on to its back . |
| 14 | The straw ‘ hat ’ was put on the tray once again , a maid was called and the tray lifted on to her head . |
| 15 | ‘ But it 's not Kinnock ; it 's Mr Gorbachev ; the world has come on to our ground and I find that a source of strength , because at least we know that we 're talking about the capitalist system . ’ |
| 16 | Made awkward by his amused scrutiny , she tilted the roll too much and a blob of jam dropped on to her chest between her breasts . |
| 17 | His head dropped on to her breast . |
| 18 | As regards myself I rarely ever tire or find the day too long though I am constantly walking a circumstance which being considered much to my health being better able to bear fatigue than when last I walked over the hills with you and I found your advice not to take spirits very very judicious . |
| 19 | Look why not come down to my cottage now , and we 'll have lunch there — I never have much more than just a picnic myself — then we can go across this afternoon , and maybe take tea to have on the island ? |
| 20 | Although a number of publications and theses have added greatly to our knowledge of the issue , none has provided a comprehensive study of the adoption of tariffs . |
| 21 | ’ And as he and Kraal continued to talk old Minch quietly dropped down to her shelter and took up the food there , listening to their few memories of the world outside . |
| 22 | On 27 and 31 July he made two final appeals to Leopold , who had responded curtly to his son 's enthusiastic descriptions of his recent musical success ; and on 4 August the lovers were married at St Stephen 's Cathedral , with only Constanze 's mother , her younger sister , her guardian , and two other witnesses present . |
| 23 | I 've come home to my dinner and I 've not a lot of time to spare . ’ |
| 24 | Rather more in line with British cinema 's future disdain for anyone outside the middle classes is Williamson 's Two Little Waifs ( 1905 ) , in which two adult gypsies are left to the flames while their daughter is carried off to her convalescence in a suburban garden . |
| 25 | The Baül poet is fully conscious that his value in the marketplace of the world is pitifully small ; that he is neither wealthy nor learned , yet he has this great compensation , for he has come close to his lover 's heart . |
| 26 | The unimaginable heat and weight of Fenna had pressed the ooze in the cave , pressed so hotly and heavily that the molecules of mud were squeezed apart , breaking up into carbon atoms and hydrogen atoms , and his weight had compressed the carbon atoms into diamond crystals , and more and more diamonds until his hoard was a lure to garish youths , who had toiled up to his cave and exchanged riddles and blows with him , but when he had fixed them with his ancient evil little eyes , they retreated abashed to sing his praises . |
| 27 | ‘ I think you 'd better come up to my room , ’ she mimicked again . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , you 'd better come up to my office and we 'll talk things over . ’ |
| 29 | No cos we was my friend Pat said to me oh she said , cos everyone have always come up to my house Christmas night , I 've always had the mess and that , she said oh she said , cos we 've got a house now come down to me , I said oh great , I can clean up and every Boxing morning it 's always been the same hangover , fucking |
| 30 | What that would show for the 1980s is that general insurance companies have added slightly to their stock of UK company securities , years of sales being just outweighed by years of purchases . |