Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] to [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She held on grimly to her temper . |
| 2 | Claudia sank down on to her bed and tried to shut her ears to the sound of him in the next room . |
| 3 | Suddenly , she felt the younger man push her down on to her back , and lift her legs high . |
| 4 | Suddenly she heard the sound of an approaching car on the road running alongside the promenade , and as its headlights shone on them , she tried to pull away , turning her head so that his kisses fell on to the side of her face and down on to her shoulder . |
| 5 | Then she found that she had no breath , for all the breath went out of her body when he tossed her down on to her mattress . |
| 6 | In terror Ruth dropped the receiver down on to its cradle . |
| 7 | Then , scampering up behind Handlebar 's bird it grabbed its rival by the neck , gripped , and forced it down on to its side . |
| 8 | She banged the iron down on to its tin rest , took up a small bowl of water , sprinkled the sleeve . |
| 9 | I could have stayed in London of course , eating my heart out for you as I have done ever since you put your head down on to your bread and butter here in this room and burst into tears ; but the combination of Christmas , and not having seen you in months drove me to a railway station and this morgue of a house . |
| 10 | He pushed her down on to his bunk , pulling his duvet around her , then took a fresh towel and began to dry her hair . |
| 11 | In the ensuing chaos , six or seven pairs of hands grabbed Ferryman and pulled him down on to his bottom . |
| 12 | Then he felt his trousers being undone and her dark head slipped down on to his lap . |
| 13 | Ali bent down close to his ear and whispered : ‘ You in pain ? ’ |
| 14 | Sit on the floor with one leg outstretched and the other bent at the knee and tucked in close to your thigh . |
| 15 | ‘ She 's in up to her belly , ’ he exclaimed . |
| 16 | A bird-watcher had climbed down there once , to get his binoculars , and the mud had sucked him in up to his waist . |
| 17 | So which brings along now to our final and most important general item which is reconsideration of proposals . . |
| 18 | Blackberry Hill curled down then to my right and up again . |
| 19 | Garry pushed his glasses higher on his nose and raising his hand as if he was starting a race , brought it down heavily to his side … |
| 20 | As it slid down the avenue the old crow , which had risen and was circling warily , dropped down again to its crust . |
| 21 | I went down again to his room to make sure he had n't returned in the night . |
| 22 | In the wild , fungi are part of the ‘ death and decay ’ complex whereby tissues of animal and plant origin are broken down biologically to their component nitrogenous and other chemical constituents . |
| 23 | ‘ V-very good , ’ she managed at last , desperately aware of the way his fingers were creeping from her chin , sliding down lightly to her neck , then on towards her throat — the ghost of a touch , as light and sensual as any touch could be and all the more powerful and disturbing for that . |
| 24 | ‘ Come on over to my place . |
| 25 | She stands down Whitechapel with her legs open saying , come on over to my place . |
| 26 | If you want to get fucked up , you 've got to come on over to our place . |
| 27 | As she turned over on to her back she dismissed such mundane things as guttering and went over the words on Leo 's note . |
| 28 | ‘ Now , then , let's have a look at you , ’ came fitzAlan 's voice , and she found herself flipped over on to her back to encounter a pair of hard blue eyes . |
| 29 | Both eyes opened and her breath rushed out in a small burst of relief as she rolled over on to her back — and her heart slammed to a stop . |
| 30 | Nicola sat down on the floor and slowly rolled over on to her back . |