Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He jabbed a finger towards Dick ‘ Nobody can get down to 'im , neither , 'cos it 's all slippery loose stones . |
| 2 | Then the big face was brought down to hers and the words came between small misshapen teeth : ‘ Do we understand each other now ? |
| 3 | She pulled my head down to hers with her bony arm and whispered , ‘ Love her , love her , love her ! |
| 4 | Her arms and legs stayed where they were , and Lewis 's head bent down to hers . |
| 5 | She slithered to one side of the bed , and he moved through the gilded air , angling his body down to hers . |
| 6 | she called back to the card players , over her shoulder , and then she put a silky arm round my neck and drew my face down to hers , and fastened those red , red lips on to my mouth and darted her snake-like tongue between my teeth and pressed her whole soft body right up to mine and seemed to squirm with pleasure . |
| 7 | Yes , she thought before she drew his face down to hers again , I am staying — staying in the only place for me : Luke 's heart . |
| 8 | Before she could utter a word , however , he suddenly slid his hand down to hers and raised it to the candlelight . |
| 9 | His hands slid down to hers and an expression of such intense emotion burned in his eyes that Isabel glanced away , suddenly shy and uncertain . |
| 10 | She moved into his embrace , putting her arms around his neck , drawing his face down to hers . |
| 11 | Slowly he lowered his head down to hers , blocking out the blood-red sky . |
| 12 | She slid her arms up around his neck and his mouth came down to hers . |
| 13 | A sob burst from her throat , and she clutched at him fiercely , dragged his head down to hers . |
| 14 | A kiss where she raised her lips to his , and he did not hold back from moving his head down to hers , and , as her heart started to sing , so her arms went up and around him . |
| 15 | Yeah and er you know we can do a certain amount but I think if you went away from that you can go away from it a little bit but I think if you went too much away the people that you have and and our audience when we 've got them you know , they tend to stay with us you know they do n't change like the the youngsters and when we started off first you know our audience were mainly over forty five fifty plus really and now they 're down to we 're getting you know loads of of people in their twenties and in their teens and even down to kids like last night , five and six years old . |
| 16 | It was all down to them thinking , oh , Glen 's at art school , perhaps he can get it done for us . |
| 17 | The growing discrepancy is starting to make the villagers despair that any of the city 's wealth will trickle down to them . |
| 18 | Cul-de-sacs skirt warily down to them and then peter out . |
| 19 | The argument put forward by the lowlanders , that they were being flooded out by water sent down to them by those living higher up the hill , was naturally resisted by the latter . |
| 20 | The emphasis has switched to trying to reach the general public , rather than talk down to them . |
| 21 | We read that the apostles in Jerusalem sent Peter and John down to them and ‘ when they arrived , they prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit , because the Holy Spirit had not yet come upon any of them ; they had simply been baptised into the name of the Lord Jesus . |
| 22 | Some prefer to feed from the tank bottom , or the midwater level , however , and if we do not cater for these fish they may find all the food gets eaten before any sinks down to them . |
| 23 | What drew his eyes down to them was the fact that it was a strange place for them to be . |
| 24 | This means that the fish have material washed down to them as well as having a greater area of the varzeas ( Amazonian flood plains ) in which to forage , introducing both food and herbs not otherwise available to aquatic life , in a form that can be used by them . |
| 25 | Our knowledge and our moral values inevitably reflect and are marked by our own finitude and all its limitations , and to scale religion down to them is to sow the seeds of fanaticism and intolerance by giving them a more absolute standing than they properly deserve . |
| 26 | Local operators hope that , if national commercial radio takes off , some cash will trickle down to them . |
| 27 | I tell you one thing I used to enjoy , on this particular belt there were so many girls , what I used to enjoy was sending plenty of work down to them — I was responsible for how much work they got out … |
| 28 | Most days I saw damage , people with huge problems , emotional , social , financial — sometimes self-inflicted , mostly just handed down to them . |
| 29 | Talking down to them does n't work . |
| 30 | They are fenced now and those on one side have steps leading down to them . |