Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thoughts about how the spectacles would appear to me if I moved towards them leftwards must be related in the correct way to thoughts about how they would look if I moved above them to the right ; thoughts about their being artefacts must be related to thoughts about their not existing before a certain time or not coming into existence in the kitchen as the kettle boils . |
| 2 | I went with him to the glass door and stopped . |
| 3 | When I reached the House of Andrus I spoke of it to the other women and we said a prayer . |
| 4 | She moved past him to the kitchen , where she put the kettle on the gas . |
| 5 | Smiling shakily back and in response to his urging , she sank with him to the floor . |
| 6 | She tiptoed past them to the chest of drawers , took out a pair of shorts and a sweatshirt and slipped back downstairs to the kitchen . |
| 7 | ‘ You came with us to the Fleet . ’ |
| 8 | She came with him to the door . |
| 9 | She came with him to the door , and the light from the hall cut an orange path across the roadway . |
| 10 | She came with him to the door , uneasy , perhaps scared . |
| 11 | She walked past him to the door , and though he followed and came quickly up to her side he did not again offer her his hand . |
| 12 | She walked with him to the bus-stop , would not let him walk her back to the flat , said not to follow her ; she 'd watch , be angry . |
| 13 | She walked with him to the garage , and as he got into her car she leaned forward and kissed his cheek lightly . |
| 14 | it was very clever , I watched the first couple because people who like Harry Enfield 's comic characters switched on , just to see what he was like and before you knew it you were twenty minutes into a half hour programme and you stuck with it to the end . |
| 15 | Her pulses racing , she looked past him to the dizzy drop through the hole in the cliff , to the sea below . |
| 16 | She smiled as she went with him to the door . |
| 17 | She hurried past him to the stairs . |
| 18 | And we went with them to the zoo . |
| 19 | We went with him to the ward . |
| 20 | She knew he cared , he showed it , but he would n't say the things she wanted to hear — that he cared for her to the exclusion of all others , and wanted her in his life to the exclusion of all others . |
| 21 | The next morning he came with me to the station , and as we waited for the train , we watched the crowds . |
| 22 | After an early morning breakfast with Paula , he walked with her to the garage where the BMW was parked . |
| 23 | He walked with her to the door of the hall and watched her stepping it out across the square , her shoulders back , her head defiantly erect . |
| 24 | When he returned with her to the Judge 's House two hours later , he found Mrs Wood waiting outside it . |
| 25 | Luke emphasised the insult by letting his gaze roam insolently over her robe , just as if he saw through it to the single garment she still had on underneath . |
| 26 | Jenkins was fortunate that he brought with him to the Home Office an intuitive understanding that it is how issues and incidents are handled , more than the policies which are decided upon , that can make or break a Home Secretary 's reputation . |
| 27 | Until his family was safe , he had declined to make any formal statement , but now he went with them to the American Embassy and swore out an affidavit about what he had seen as a DIA agent assigned to DEA NARCOG , Nicosia . |
| 28 | He looked beyond them to the pony and cart , then added not unkindly , ‘ You could get that up the drive . ’ |
| 29 | He looked from me to the suitcase and back again in amazement . |