Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [pers pn] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What decisions , made arbitrarily and in anger , would be handed down to him in the morning ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Shall I go up to her in the pub on Sunday I 'll say , hey Aunty Nora ? |
| 4 | Mr and Mrs Is-the-Mitsubishi-Scratched-Yet went up to her in the street and pressed her hands between theirs . |
| 5 | I hope he makes it up to her in the end . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | People rush up to me in the street , and ask to touch me . |
| 11 | Nobody walks up to me in the street and says , ’ God , I think you 're really sexy . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Only a day or two after The Graduate opened , someone came up to him in the street and said , ‘ You know something ? |
| 14 | Does they tend to have more gumption , they tend to have to stand up to him in the end . |
| 15 | It was a very small audience , only about forty people , and he came up to us in the break and told us he loved it and wanted a T-shirt . |
| 16 | Erm what actually happens if someone comes up to you in the night and says , My house has been burgled . |
| 17 | ‘ When strangers walk up to you in the street and scream abuse , it hurts , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ You see , if a beggar comes up to you in the street , you give him , or her , this card . |
| 19 | Yet nearly everyone shapes up to it in the end . |
| 20 | George had pointed someone out to me in the dayniter , but he was not the right person : grey haired , but too ill-looking , too old . |
| 21 | This reversion to collusion is the carrot to induce the deviant to accept whatever is meted out to it in the punishment phase . |
| 22 | So precisely what Mr Hill has already pointed out to you in the discussion which he 's had with you . |
| 23 | He 's had his meaningless little flings before — but he always comes back to me in the end . |
| 24 | Then we come back to me in the studio and I say , ‘ The film you have just seen was an attempt to blah blah blah . |
| 25 | You just get on with it and come back to me in the morning . ’ |
| 26 | The the Council looking at the whole process of how it spends it money what it does , I think the theatre the start of this evening we were looking quite close about what we do and how we do it what we do n't do and what we should do and I think from what 's been said this evening will be re look closely the questions you 've raised things that you 've raised we 'll report it back to you in the hope of this meeting that we 'll actually moved forward because I think it 's in everybody interest everybody 's interest if the playhouse closes . |
| 27 | Results have not gone in his favour in the short-term , but I believe the club will have a job holding on to him in the future . |
| 28 | I expect you 'll come round to it in the end . ’ |