Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to [pers pn] in 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Does they tend to have more gumption , they tend to have to stand up to him in the end . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She eventually got through to her in the early evening . |
| 7 | ‘ When strangers walk up to you in the street and scream abuse , it hurts , ’ he said . |
| 8 | So to the middle-aged man who came up to me in the car park and confessed that in the fifth form he had been silently in love with me — why did n't he say so at the time ? |
| 9 | Only a day or two after The Graduate opened , someone came up to him in the street and said , ‘ You know something ? |
| 10 | A less judicial member of the Party came up to him in the lobby only half-convinced , but with tears of emotion running down his cheeks . |
| 11 | It was a very small audience , only about forty people , and he came up to us in the break and told us he loved it and wanted a T-shirt . |
| 12 | What decisions , made arbitrarily and in anger , would be handed down to him in the morning ? |
| 13 | I 'm a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and er because I 'm by background an electronics engineer and I was at a meeting there where a chap was giving a talk on design express lifts you know at Northampton and the Chairman stood up and introduced doctor whoever he was sat down turned round to me in the second row and said could you give a vote of thanks at the end . |
| 14 | Down beneath them the lights round the swimming-pool shone cheerfully , and the voice of the singer floated up to them in the starlight , as in a natural amphitheatre . |
| 15 | Results have not gone in his favour in the short-term , but I believe the club will have a job holding on to him in the future . |
| 16 | Yet nearly everyone shapes up to it in the end . |
| 17 | So could I just in conclusion say please fill in your short questionnaire thank you for your attendance and I can assure you as Chairman of the trust what you said and the question 's you 've raised this evening will be looked at in great detail and we will be reporting back to you in the near future about the proposals that we wish to make . |
| 18 | So precisely what Mr Hill has already pointed out to you in the discussion which he 's had with you . |
| 19 | This reversion to collusion is the carrot to induce the deviant to accept whatever is meted out to it in the punishment phase . |
| 20 | I was being given lists of telephone numbers , people were coming up to me in the Comedy Store and saying , ‘ Eh , are you the bloke who 's doing these odd photos . |
| 21 | People rush up to me in the street , and ask to touch me . |
| 22 | These gloomy thoughts have kept coming back to me in the last few days in the national Art Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum , collecting reference material on all those women artists who should have been included in Gravity and Grace : the Changing Condition of Sculpture 1965–1975 at the Hayward Gallery . |
| 23 | Mr and Mrs Is-the-Mitsubishi-Scratched-Yet went up to her in the street and pressed her hands between theirs . |
| 24 | Shall I go up to her in the pub on Sunday I 'll say , hey Aunty Nora ? |
| 25 | ‘ Then you 'd better get on to them in the first instance . |
| 26 | ‘ How did you get on to it in the first place ? ’ |
| 27 | Piper may be articulate and polite , but he is genuinely tough and a real threat to Benn — who I believe must get through to him in the first six rounds or face disaster . |
| 28 | Nobody walks up to me in the street and says , ’ God , I think you 're really sexy . ’ |
| 29 | I expect you 'll come round to it in the end . ’ |
| 30 | If they come up to me in the members room of the City Hall and say ‘ hello ’ what am I supposed to ? |