Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently , though , it was not etiquette , a reality laughingly pointed out to her by Glyn when they had started going out with each other on a regular basis . |
| 2 | She eventually got through to her in the early evening . |
| 3 | But Sara 's idea had obviously been the better one , he told himself , though without believing a word of it , for where would they all be now without ‘ Mama 's business venture , ’ as his stepson warmly pointed out to him on a walk round the garden this afternoon . |
| 4 | Would she scream insults , or perhaps cling on to him for grim death and beg for another chance ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So coming back to me on that . |
| 8 | But Sam said he had a surprise to show her ; and Sarah , obviously put up to it by him , claimed she would prefer to sit in the shade on the terrace and do a water colour of the garden at La Gracieuse . |
| 9 | ‘ Then you 'd better get on to them in the first instance . |
| 10 | So precisely what Mr Hill has already pointed out to you in the discussion which he 's had with you . |
| 11 | But at the moment he 's well he 's not come back to us with any answer from our offer at all so we 're we 're presuming that means no so we thought we 'd better start looking . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The great majority of consumers get their fuel on credit , in that they pay monthly or quarterly in arrears , though of course the cost of this credit is not charged separately to them as interest . |
| 15 | Unlike the others , sleep did not come easily to her before a job . |
| 16 | And so it was my experience not to become closer to him in our isolation but to approach myself more closely . |
| 17 | As a male student once pointed out to me in a moment of inspiration , it does n't make sense to say both that women 's talk is trivial and that it is ‘ deep ’ compared to men 's . |
| 18 | The Manor was one of the first houses my father ever pointed out to me in an effort to get me to appreciate architecture . |
| 19 | So resolute are they at keeping hold of one another that even if you pick up the mother , her babies will still hang on to her in a wriggling furry rope . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I am always drawn back to it as if I was under a compulsion " They are telling the truth . |
| 22 | My wife is always going on to me about it . |
| 23 | Was she genuinely reaching out to him as a last source of help ? |
| 24 | The resulting brand of individualism thus contains a radical anomaly , affecting half of those present — an anomaly which , however , does not seem to have been visible until light was specially directed on to it by feminists . |
| 25 | He caused more suffering among his allow drivers than any other man I ever saw race and the only man who could possibly come closer to him as a road-hog , even when his own position was hopeless , was Riccardo Patrese , a far more refined driver than Clay in every other respect . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ’ People still come up to me on the streets all the time and ask the most personal kind of questions that you 've ever heard in your life , like , ’ How could you do such-and such on screen ? ' |
| 28 | He 's had his meaningless little flings before — but he always comes back to me in the end . |
| 29 | Writing a hundred years before Eusebius , he states that , after the deaths of Peter and Paul , in the course of the persecutions in Rome : ‘ Mark the disciple and interpreter of Peter also handed down to us in writing the things preached by Peter . ’ |
| 30 | Now openly tipped as a candidate to succeed Norman Lamont as the next Chancellor in a summer reshuffle , the bookies have also cottoned on to him as a possible future leader of the party and cut his odds from 33-1 to 16-1 . |