Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] 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 | Nobody walks up to me in the street and says , ’ God , I think you 're really sexy . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Erm what actually happens if someone comes up to you in the night and says , My house has been burgled . |
| 8 | ‘ You see , if a beggar comes up to you in the street , you give him , or her , this card . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | He 's had his meaningless little flings before — but he always comes back to me in the end . |