Example sentences of "[num ord] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's , there 's several had the flu and there 's three of them next to me with a headache yesterday . |
| 2 | I was only half-aware of a looming presence next to me at the bar , until he joined in our conversation : |
| 3 | They were very pleased when I told them the outcome of my night on the tiles and Otley sat next to me on the sofa with his arm round my shoulders . |
| 4 | A few minutes later , downstairs , Eva was next to me on the sofa , bathing my forehead and whispering , ‘ You silly boys , you silly boys . ’ |
| 5 | Sit next to me on the school bus ( tonight ) . |
| 6 | Sitting next to me on the plane was a Mrs Jackson . |
| 7 | I wish she was here , sitting next to me on the bench , holding my hand like she used to . |
| 8 | A girl sitting next to me in the cinema vomited during one of the worst scenes and had to leave . ’ |
| 9 | Then Prentice took the seat next to me in the corridor and I just knew the day would n't get any better whatever the weather forecast . |
| 10 | She sat next to me in the front while Walt occupied the back seat . |
| 11 | Miss Butler said : ‘ He stood next to me in the lift and did not look at all shifty . |
| 12 | What would you say to Fergie if you sat next to her on an aeroplane ? |
| 13 | She patted the place next to her on the lip of the stone fountain . |
| 14 | Wearily he sat down next to her on the sofa and worried at his hair . |
| 15 | Jealous of Lubor ? ’ and did n't know where she was when , as if he did n't think much of sitting opposite her in one chair while she had the huge couch all to herself , Ven suddenly moved from his chair and came and sat down next to her on the couch . |
| 16 | Quietly pass her a note in our next lesson asking if I could sit next to her on the bus on the way home tonight . |
| 17 | In fact I sat next to her at a lunch in Abingdon a few years ago , and erm this image one got of her of not being a listener is totally untrue erm every time she turned to me it was to listen to what I had to say . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , come on in then ! ’ had reseated herself in the chair , and motioned me to take my place next to her at the desk . |
| 19 | As she committed her life once more to God 's service at the conclusion of one of the big meetings an old retired officer who had been specially invited knelt next to her at the mercy seat . |
| 20 | Rosette Fournier was not alone , next to her at the wheel Flavia saw the clear-cut profile of another woman . |
| 21 | Those dancing next to her in the line always felt dowdy by comparison . |
| 22 | Some time later I found myself next to him at a dining-club . |
| 23 | Twice , when he had run out of ideas , he had driven the little Triumph out of the district to a coffee shop where he was not known , and had sat drinking coffee and talking to the men next to him at the counter , surprised to find himself accepted as a member of the grown-up world . |
| 24 | He offered the seat next to him on the console . |
| 25 | Carl from upstairs got arrested too , and he said that Ibrahim was screaming all night in the room next to him in the prison , and when they opened the door in the morning , he 'd scratched all the skin off of his face . |
| 26 | Ok , I see your point now ; - ) Im sure he would nt need to learn much from Wilko at all tactically etc , maybe in the practical aspects of mgt — so I cant see MUCH benefit from sitting next to him in the dug out . |
| 27 | Sequestered within were Pet Shop Boys NEIL TENNANT and CHRIS LOWE — who earlier had the hair-raising experience of being mobbed in the cinema by ticket-buying fans who , in their rush to obtain autographs with menaces , completely ignored a squirming BARNEY from NEW ORDER/ELECTRONIC who was sat next to them at the time . |
| 28 | Midge happened to be standing next to them in the shop where they got the bum 's rush . |
| 29 | I must have stood next to them in the Tube , passed them in the street , of course I 've overheard them and I knew they existed . |
| 30 | As she watched he draped the shirt next to hers by the fire before squatting down opposite her . |