Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something with the consistency of cement began to splatter from Peters ' ripped torso , but still he clung on to it in the renewed savagery of his hunger . |
| 2 | The company claims full rights over the recordings , passed on to them under an agreement signed by Lisa 's father and manager when she was 16 . |
| 3 | Singing along to them in the middle of the jungle did seem a little odd , but it kept our minds off things , even if it invited torrents of abuse . |
| 4 | But why latch on to him as the father of her child ? |
| 5 | So resolute are they at keeping hold of one another that even if you pick up the mother , her babies will still hang on to her in a wriggling furry rope . |
| 6 | ‘ Can I hang on to it for a while ? ’ |
| 7 | So are gilts , especially if you nip in to them before the next — perhaps imminent — interest rate cut . |
| 8 | Much medieval painting has come down to us in a fragmentary condition , and often in a very poor state of conservation . |
| 9 | Biblioth. , P.L. 28.556 ) , and Origen still knew its Hebrew title , which has come down to us in a corrupt and unintelligible form , Sarbethsabanaiel ( ap . |
| 10 | The mutilated text of the passage of Polybius has come down to us in the Excerpta de sententiis and the keyword " he wept " , has to be supplied from Diodorus ( 32.24 ) with the support of Appian , Punica 132 : they are known to have used Polybius directly or indirectly . |
| 11 | The message seeped through to her via the depth of his kisses , the gentle strength in the fingers that ruffled her hair before kneading their way down her spine — and his arousal , which betrayed his hunger to make love . |
| 12 | It has come through to me as a firm conclusion that , if there is such a thing as premonition , it is something which is instantaneous — a flash of intuition … . |
| 13 | He would always teach trainees : " If a client asks you a question you do n't understand , say — " Hold on a minute sir , a call has just come through to me from the States " — put him on hold then , and ask me . |
| 14 | It sounded as though the reality of what they were doing had come home to her for the first time . |
| 15 | Claudia shivered ; her twin was n't alone in her fear , but Dana would n't be able to stand up to him for a moment . |
| 16 | Does they tend to have more gumption , they tend to have to stand up to him in the end . |
| 17 | The man had come up to her at the entrance to the library where she worked and just asked her . |
| 18 | Later I trained a kestrel which I found much less inquisitive and more likely to come straight to me for the food . |
| 19 | I said , squaring up to him with the fish slice in my hand like a machete . |
| 20 | So you come up behind it so that your body and the striker 's ball , that being your red ball and the other ball , the object ball are always the same straight line I mean it does n't matter whether you come in from the side you 're walking up to it in a straight line put your mallet down , swing it through . |
| 21 | He had known this district all his life , had come back to it as a young police detective for his first major case , and its vitality and capacity for change amazed him . |
| 22 | Everyone stopped and looked around and one or two voices shouted back to him along the valley . |
| 23 | When at last they began to come out to her in the sun-drenched quadrangle on the Castle 's south side , where she liked to sit , she was patient and cautious . |
| 24 | erm I 'd we we have a number of suggestions er a gentleman over there about the er body building was that reported back to you for a start and did you discuss this ? erm you know I I really thought it sort of modern management techniques if there applied here like team working net working it 's it this way you could actually begin to perform as the committee at the moment your the shadowy figures in the background . |
| 25 | The other point is I gave you an undertaking yesterday to come back to you on the reschedule of the programme in respect of items that have fell of the agenda during the course of the week . |
| 26 | Yes , I 've got to come back to you in a minute Fred and I 'll just give you time to think about this . |
| 27 | Tea was carried out to us on a brass tray from the women 's quarters . |
| 28 | Travis had raised himself out of his despair to quip that she and his cousin both worked for the same firm , but the message that had come across to her from the dark steely look of Naylor Massingham was that that might be true now , but , since she had chosen not to heed his warning , one of them would not be working for the same firm for very much longer ! |
| 29 | She eventually got through to her in the early evening . |
| 30 | Maggie added : ‘ Keith sees Rose whenever he wants , either by popping in here or she goes over to him for the day . ’ |