Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1	Maggie added : ‘ Keith sees Rose whenever he wants , either by popping in here or she goes over to him for the day . ’
2	Yet nearly everyone shapes up to it in the end .
3	He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written .
4	Nobody walks up to me in the street and says , ’ God , I think you 're really sexy . ’
5	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 .
6	Because Mrs B , right she just prejudiced , she comes up to me in the Cookery lesson , tell me to clean out the dustbin , and I was so vexed I started to cry , I was so vexed by it .
7	He walks along the top of ancient city walls , passing secretly among the rooftops , through a world of slates and television aerials and caged birds at dormer windows ; emerges upon high places where the whole city — roofs , towers , domes , and lives — is gathered at his feet , and the immense acreage of its noise comes up to him like the murmur of the sea .
8	Erm what actually happens if someone comes up to you in the night and says , My house has been burgled .
9	‘ You see , if a beggar comes up to you in the street , you give him , or her , this card .
10	When we finished the tour , we ended up in the same place and he comes back to me with the most beautiful guitar I 've ever seen — handcrafted in under a month !
11	He 's had his meaningless little flings before — but he always comes back to me in the end .

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