Example sentences of "[adv] to [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harvey spent a lot of time in the office and apart from asking me if I 'd spoken to Dawlish — a suggestion which I impassively denied — he did n't say much to me until the morning of the third day , which was a Tuesday . |
| 2 | Nobody said much to me after the service . |
| 3 | You know especially to me at the moment . |
| 4 | He is on his own and definitely talking aloud to himself in the privacy of his room . |
| 5 | It would not disturb you , would it , if I had to bear our child in this hole , among this dirt — I have hardly been able to keep clean over the time we 've lived here , with only a jug of cold water — and the unbearable food , and hardly enough light to see by when I have to read your script aloud to you in the evening , and then give you your pleasure in the bed every night with that woman listening through the wall ? |
| 6 | I can never be grateful enough to them for the sacrifice they made to keep me at school , when even ten shillings a week would have relieved the pressure on the food bill . |
| 7 | No matter how many people you see , I think it 's all down to yourself in the end . |
| 8 | On their way across the churchyard Mrs Hollidaye pointed down to something on the ground . |
| 9 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 10 | What decisions , made arbitrarily and in anger , would be handed down to him in the morning ? |
| 11 | There seems little doubt that Trow Gill once brought down a stream , this entering as a waterfall at the gap now occupied by boulders , and this theory is confirmed by the dry channel coming directly down to it from the heights above . |
| 12 | We have a traditional culture , which comes down to us from the time of the Renaissance , and our literature , which is rich , draws its life blood therefrom . |
| 13 | She had enticed them in like an old witch , Val said , by talking volubly to them in the garden about the quietness of the place , giving them each a small , gold , furry apricot from the espaliered trees along the curving brick wall . |
| 14 | It 's a rare person who can ignore a letter sent personally to him over the signature of Clint Eastwood or Charlton Heston , saying ‘ I need your help ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He asked permission to make the tea , which he did — and brought it in to them with the air of an old family retainer . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But you may get to keep the other assets from the marriage , or pay less to her over the years . |
| 19 | As he began to speak , he seemed to grow less and less aware of his audience and continually turned his head , as though listening to some sound , audible only to himself from the entrance tunnel behind him . |
| 20 | That may be why he refused to speak to Miss Havisham directly , but spoke only to me during the conversation . |
| 21 | Mr Larkin says his suffering is worse for knowing that Gary had only agreed to go to Chorley at the last minute after two people , a man and a woman , had spoken separately to him on the phone . |
| 22 | Mum and Dad were all tight and not saying much and Annie just chatted away to me in the back and Simon kept licking at the suitcase like it was a bone or summat . |
| 23 | Ipswich captain Debbie Rawlinson is quite happy to be playing Chelmsford , especially after the 3–1 win away to them in the league . |
| 24 | There were only the crickets shrilling away to themselves in the bushes . |
| 25 | I mean , here am I , chattering away to you about the outcome of the war … and you actually know , Cassie . |
| 26 | anyway to me on the way out , oh I really enjoyed that and we were crying our eyes out . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Aitken asserted at the trial , and this view was certainly supported by independent witnesses , that no word about confidentiality was ever uttered , but the document was handed over to him on the footing that it would be returned within a very short time . |