Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He bent down to kiss her on the lips , and Folly felt her head start to swim again as she reached up to place her hand behind his neck , drawing him down . |
| 2 | ‘ Well then , you had better have one , ’ said Diana , and bent down to kiss him on the cheek . |
| 3 | She thought fleetingly of the weapon he might have picked up to strike her over the head as she sat at his mercy . |
| 4 | SUEDE 's past has come back to haunt them in the form of a former business associate with whom they had dealings before signing to the Nude label . |
| 5 | One of the girls from the village , Victorine went on : used to come out to help me with the cleaning . |
| 6 | He came down to join her on the floor . |
| 7 | A talkative Bruce Willis dropped me outside the London flat fifteen minutes later ( you can assess the situation on the way upstairs ) , and Kenneth came down to meet me at the door . |
| 8 | The entry of Joanna , who came in to consult her about the drugs needed to replenish their stock , put an end to her melancholy reflections , and after they had decided Joanna said , ‘ When Ian comes round this evening I thought I 'd give him coffee or a drink in our sitting-room . |
| 9 | At one of our constituency surgeries , a retired widow came in to see us concerning the seventeen pounds extra which she would have to pay extra er to cover the other non-payments . |
| 10 | I.M. Dalby , Osric Place , Newton Aycliffe : I was at Maynards in the Haymarket , Newcastle , training to be manageress at the Bishop Auckland branch , when a lady from the snack bar next door came in to tell us of the passing away of the King . |
| 11 | When you came over to see us in the field , Cowslip , you said your warren was n't large , but judging by the holes we saw along the bank , it must be what we 'd reckon a fine , big one . " |
| 12 | We came over to see you in the Glory . |
| 13 | The little man stood up and came over to join him at the fire . |
| 14 | Janice , from her vantage point , managed to catch the eye of a boy to whom she had spoken on the boat , and terrorized , fascinated , he responded to her insinuations and oglings and came over to ask her for the pleasure of her hand . |
| 15 | The first Sara had known of Adam 's injury was when she had turned up to collect him at the school gate . |
| 16 | There 's a nurse is in bed and the next thing the nurse wakes up to find him at the bottom of the bed . |
| 17 | The sketchily covered breasts that had embarrassed her earlier in the evening were now taut and tingling , and when Tom 's hands came up to cup them through the thin fabric of her blouse she wanted to arch her back and drink in the new sensation with cries of pleasure . |
| 18 | The most noticeable of them is a throbbingly emotional ballad — as if from some oriental Tom Jones — which intermittently wells out to remind you of the popular nature of the love dramas you are witnessing . |
| 19 | By the time he had staggered into the yard he could hardly stand up , hitting the ancient , mossy mounting block and tripping over one of the green tubs filled with white geraniums , as Little Chef came bounding out to lick him on the nose . |
| 20 | So er I thought a alright then , so I I went off like and I just heard erm and said , I went up to see her mother like and , I told her mother about it , like and that and erm her mother says different now , that she came round to see me at the time to tell , to give me a telling off like over her friend . |
| 21 | Almost every afternoon when Charlie was at school he turned up to take him to the studio to rehearse with his band . |
| 22 | He passes by on the other side of the road and once he 's well past I pop up to watch him through the rear window . |
| 23 | She could n't look out to see them in the yard . |
| 24 | Mm , you can do it so , the worst one I ever did was just filling a kettle of water and turning round to put it on the , on the cooker . |
| 25 | The actress swivelled round to face her in the doorway . |
| 26 | As my bus drives up to ease me from the pitiful world outside , Clary waves , a week hand emerging from his dark shadow huddled from the cold . |
| 27 | ‘ Too refined , ’ Julia explained didactically and pressed on to introduce him to the black and white humbug types labelled British Alpines , standing next to the skewbald variety called British Toggenbergs . |
| 28 | Ten minutes later the staff began to arrive and at nine o'clock Fred Workman walked in to introduce me to the staff and show me around the building . |
| 29 | As soon as we received the tree preservation order we rushed down to pi-n i-t on the tree . |
| 30 | A great big THANK YOU to all of the Clothes Show Live visitors that popped along to see us at the N.E.C. |