Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to [pers pn] [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | But why latch on to him as the father of her child ? |
| 4 | So are gilts , especially if you nip in to them before the next — perhaps imminent — interest rate cut . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It sounded as though the reality of what they were doing had come home to her for the first time . |
| 9 | Does they tend to have more gumption , they tend to have to stand up to him in the end . |
| 10 | The man had come up to her at the entrance to the library where she worked and just asked her . |
| 11 | Later I trained a kestrel which I found much less inquisitive and more likely to come straight to me for the food . |
| 12 | I said , squaring up to him with the fish slice in my hand like a machete . |
| 13 | Everyone stopped and looked around and one or two voices shouted back to him along the valley . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | She eventually got through to her in the early evening . |
| 18 | Maggie added : ‘ Keith sees Rose whenever he wants , either by popping in here or she goes over to him for the day . ’ |
| 19 | It is surrounded by buildings , the houses being built on to it at the eastern apse . |
| 20 | My inability to unbelieve in him hung on to me by the jaws , as I ascended the corporate ladder . |
| 21 | ah well , we , we did er , that house we did in , in er Kingsley , well the other side of Kingsley by Northwich for er , he 's the managing director of Tarmac for the North West Division and there he bought this house at Kingsley and er we added on to it on the kitchen was a complete wing that we built , a single storey and the roof spars had to show we had to put imitation |
| 22 | 1991 we had two trees with flashing lights , and a local family , whose children had written in to us about the trees , were invited to switch them on . |
| 23 | Remember what I did there I got three themes and for each one I got three subthemes so that what you put over to them to the audience are those three themes . |
| 24 | Erm what , what was the feeling that came over to you from the tenants ' group at the time ? |
| 25 | Listening once to him on the Bench I recalled an occasion when the aged and formidable boys ' maid who looked after our rooms had stood with arms akimbo accusing him of some peccadillo , and ended her tirade : " Mr Phillimore , do n't you stand there lying like Ananias ! " |
| 26 | My comparative lack of basic talent came home to me on the practice ground before the first round of the Amateur . |
| 27 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 28 | And he came once to me on the district to me I do n't know he went to others . |
| 29 | ‘ When strangers walk up to you in the street and scream abuse , it hurts , ’ he said . |
| 30 | ‘ He came straight to me with the tale , ’ said Hugh , reckoning up in a low voice for Cadfael 's ear alone . |