Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'll probably go to bed with an ache somewhere else if all my plans come to fruition , ’ she told him insolently . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's my eyesight that gets me , I ca n't read , my eyes start to water . |
| 3 | With the dreadful simplicity that orders the movement Hegel erected as a system , society trots along before my eyes reproducing to perfection the mechanism of the death struggle : the reduction of a ‘ person , to a ‘ nobody ’ to the position of ‘ other ’ — the inexorable plot of racism . |
| 4 | and and my eyes started to water |
| 5 | He has my sympathy and goodwill , on top of my guilt at laughing , and my emotions run to excess . |
| 6 | Cos she was expecting me to trot out something like , yes both my parents went to grammar school like everybody else whose parents went , you know , they were all saying , yes my parents went to grammar school and they got these and these have got these qualifications and everything , I could n't believe it though , there 's a load of people in our class and like you know , all the parents are all these things and they 're not exactly brilliant , the children |
| 7 | Cos she was expecting me to trot out something like , yes both my parents went to grammar school like everybody else whose parents went , you know , they were all saying , yes my parents went to grammar school and they got these and these have got these qualifications and everything , I could n't believe it though , there 's a load of people in our class and like you know , all the parents are all these things and they 're not exactly brilliant , the children |
| 8 | Do n't you remember , she used to make me wear them in my shoes to go to school when it was raining ? |
| 9 | I started to walk across to the pile and as I did , all my toys came to life and stood in a line facing me . |
| 10 | But the problem is that the government wo n't allow my children to go to school . |
| 11 | That was hard work all the time , my hands my hands used to chap on the backs , used to chap hands and that was only , I was over the wind , I wind and , and er when I used to scrub the cabin out which was with washing soda and soft soap and when you went along cos that was you get , you get erm , ordinary washing soda on the back of your hands and they did n't supply anything then . |
| 12 | You see actually I started , once my kiddies got to school , |
| 13 | The libel laws should be changed to provide a ‘ fast track ’ system allowing victims of media falsehoods to correct them quickly without having to wait a long time for their cases to go to court and gamble on the result . |
| 14 | FOUR men are suing Merseyside Police for damages after they waited nearly four years to face charges only for the Crown Prosecution Service to offer no evidence when their cases came to court . |
| 15 | All victims of human rights violations and their relatives have the right to have the full truth about their cases brought to light . |
| 16 | Her misgivings sprang to life again . |
| 17 | There 'll be no more work on the site until their plans to replace to hotel have been passed . |
| 18 | Her words faded to silence . |
| 19 | Her words faded to silence . |
| 20 | So Janet , your question , which is not as I in , intimated it might be at all , so you , you can be well annoyed , erm , if you 're setting up a , a joint life policy with waiver premium on both people , and the wife is fifty one , and the husband is forty , how much will be deducted from their units according to waiver of premiums ? |
| 21 | If only cat owners realised the damage their pets do to garden birds . |
| 22 | Her eyes lifted to fitzAlan 's . |
| 23 | when she makes her pictures went to doctor today |
| 24 | She remembered Alain Gebrec 's warning that parts of it were unstable ; a vision of the shattered body of Wolfgang Klein swam before her eyes , her stomach contracted and her legs turned to cotton wool . |
| 25 | But they can not escape from their duties related to health and safety . |
| 26 | She felt his fingers in her hair and his arm tight about her , and her bones turned to liquid . |
| 27 | She felt his heat , his hardness , and her bones turned to liquid . |
| 28 | Only his strong arms holding her tight against him saved her from falling , her bones turning to liquid within her as his lips nuzzled relentlessly towards her ear . |
| 29 | In both these settings , women who had been toiling in their communities came to conference to exchange ideas and information , and to gain strength by being together . |
| 30 | Eventually her offences led to prison . |