Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No matter how many people you see , I think it 's all down to yourself in the end . |
| 2 | On their way across the churchyard Mrs Hollidaye pointed down to something on the ground . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | What decisions , made arbitrarily and in anger , would be handed down to him in the morning ? |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | He asked permission to make the tea , which he did — and brought it in to them with the air of an old family retainer . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Maggie added : ‘ Keith sees Rose whenever he wants , either by popping in here or she goes over to him for the day . ’ |
| 12 | But try and look at the fundamental basis of what they 're trying to put over to you on the video , okay ? |
| 13 | The man had come up to her at the entrance to the library where she worked and just asked her . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | Shall I go up to her in the pub on Sunday I 'll say , hey Aunty Nora ? |
| 16 | Mr and Mrs Is-the-Mitsubishi-Scratched-Yet went up to her in the street and pressed her hands between theirs . |
| 17 | I hope he makes it up to her in the end . |
| 18 | I went up to her after the show to congratulate her on the song which was the best of the night . |
| 19 | Down beneath them the lights round the swimming-pool shone cheerfully , and the voice of the singer floated up to them in the starlight , as in a natural amphitheatre . |
| 20 | He came up to me outside the church . |
| 21 | We had lost the press buses and one of the Gofers , a merchant banker , came up to me on the tarmac to ask if I knew where they were . |
| 22 | 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 ? ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I was being given lists of telephone numbers , people were coming up to me in the Comedy Store and saying , ‘ Eh , are you the bloke who 's doing these odd photos . |
| 25 | So to the middle-aged man who came up to me in the car park and confessed that in the fifth form he had been silently in love with me — why did n't he say so at the time ? |
| 26 | People rush up to me in the street , and ask to touch me . |
| 27 | Nobody walks up to me in the street and says , ’ God , I think you 're really sexy . ’ |
| 28 | She made up to him for the son he had never had , the wife who had left him , even the dull Selene , who would never come to anything . |
| 29 | He went up to him before the meeting and said , ‘ This is the race that is going to decide between us as to who is going to be the number one . ’ |
| 30 | A less judicial member of the Party came up to him in the lobby only half-convinced , but with tears of emotion running down his cheeks . |