Example sentences of "[adv] to [pers pn] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know especially to me at the moment . |
| 2 | In Dennant v. Skinner ( 1948 K.B. ) the buyer had a van knocked down to him at an auction . |
| 3 | A bunch of flowers , a dozen red roses , a tiny , unimportant little gift , but not to me at the time . |
| 4 | Close to it at a March meeting in 1585 accusations of a theft of some Scottish spurs and counter-accusations of ‘ a pretended matter beforehand ’ began to fly to and fro , until without warning someone on the Scottish side shot and killed Russell . |
| 5 | He came straight to us at the castle , and told us how he had found the body , and no question but he was greatly shaken and agitated , as well he might be , guilty or innocent . |
| 6 | The man had come up to her at the entrance to the library where she worked and just asked her . |
| 7 | Remembered the horrible , fair , insinuating Frome sidling up to her at the counter and suddenly , unexpectedly , braying out for the whole shop to hear in exaggerated cockney : ‘ Better not fatten him up too much , love , or he 'll be too heavy to baby-snatch . ’ |
| 8 | A THEATRICAL lady doctor tripped up to me at a party in Covent Garden this week and told me she had phoned a film producer friend and asked how he was . |
| 9 | I HAVE several times told the story of the lady who came up to me at the end of one of my lectures on the relationship between science and music and said , ‘ It 's all very well doing all these scientific tests on musical instruments but can you explain the tingle in the spine that some music produces ? ’ |
| 10 | The person giving it may not realise the full legal consequences of it as regards the release of a co-debtor ; but that is not , in my opinion , a sufficient ground for reading into the document something that is not expressed in it ; and unless you find in it something qualifying the general words , it appears to me that the legal consequences of the general words of discharge must follow , notwithstanding that those consequences may go beyond what the person giving the document would have intended if they had been pointed out to him at the time , and he had had an opportunity of addressing his mind to them . |
| 11 | Consisting of off-the-shelf commercial equipment that anyone might buy , it included the Sony video camera that was still signed out to him at the time of his arrest by the FBI in 1990 on a trumped-up passport charge . |
| 12 | Nathan hated them because they implied that he was terribly little and when you are terribly little you do n't want the world to keep pointing it out to you at every opportunity . |
| 13 | I also wonder how the system copes with changes to people 's incomes , er many people particularly in recession we heard that unemployment in Cambridge is now approaching ten percent and if you 've been turned down by the council , your council housing on your means test are you really going to go back to them at a time when you may be under a lot of stress with unemployment to have your circumstances reinvestigated , I very much doubt whether people do go back . |
| 14 | I shall come back to them at the end of this chapter , having reviewed the empirical evidence . |
| 15 | ( d ) Joan Ruddock , then chairperson of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament , heard her telephone conversation being played back to her at the end of a call . |
| 16 | Erm you can come back to it at the end if you 've done everything else , but there 's something about these that er I think you 're one . |
| 17 | I , I 've bought you back the whip and I 'm just about to start the other one , so hang on to it at the moment , cos I do n't like too many books around that I 've borrowed , I 've got two . |
| 18 | ‘ You will bring them here to me at the fall of the Purple Hour . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He was round to me at the office the other day , wondering if I had any letters . |
| 20 | On the other hand though I was really drunk so maybe I only remember it that way John turned round to me at the end and said , I ca n't understand you All the people I know , when they get pissed , they start fights , whereas you just seem really happy |