Example sentences of "[pers pn] come [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Peter called to him : ‘ Lord if it is you , tell me to come to you over the water . ’
2 I came over it below the farmhouse and hugged the side wall like I 've seen them do in the movies until I could peer round into the farmyard .
3 With distant astonishment at her own efficiency , she heard her voice saying very clearly and reasonably : ‘ I do beg your pardon , but I came to you as the nearest house .
4 ‘ Signor Skof , we would like you to come with us to the barracks to answer some questions , ’ one of them said ; and the other : ‘ You will be allowed home this afternoon . ’
5 You came to him through the spirits of your ancestors so that spirit worship and fear of the spirits of your relatives was very real to the people . "
6 I waited until you came to me in the hospital , I had to .
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 came with us from the orphanage back home , two hundred heads in two hundreds beds and two hundred broken hearts under two hundred army surplus blankets and the good nuns to look after us .
12 How did you come across her in the first place ? ’
13 It was only when he asked her to come with him to the bushes at the bottom of the garden — something which she did willingly — and tried to force her to have sex with him that Myra became frightened and ran away .
14 ‘ When they came to me in the summer , some of the shirts they offered were horrible .
15 He said : ‘ They came to us with the scheme in the first place .
16 She said er well they came to us in the interval and Con was just like , I thought she 'll call me when Sally has gone , Sally had their address , she 'd just you know , she was gon na be in there and Con said , look , did you look at that dress she said , whoever makes them !
17 If the events in each of his series did happen or could have happened , they come to us with the optimistic tone , the promise of a happy ending , which we expect of the classic adventure story .
18 He made her come with him onto the end of the staging down which Jotan and Arkhina had already disappeared .
19 The next morning he came with me to the station , and as we waited for the train , we watched the crowds .
20 The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before .
21 He came at her from the front then ? ’
22 If he came on them in the darkness and they were … but she would n't … it was perfectly natural … she was eighteen and he …
23 Almost always she answered ‘ yes ’ because she had come to prefer lying still , with his soft sleeping body behind her , breathing the night air scented with pine wood and wild thyme as it came to her through the open shutters , and listening to the faraway ululation of the Borzoi dog chained beneath the walls of the Castello Crocetto .
24 Leon Kennedy slumped in his chair , laughing , and it came to him with the same elegance as movement .
25 It came to him in the small hours .
26 It came from me in the first place , did n't it ?
27 ‘ Could he come with us to the West ? ’ she asks .
28 It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons .
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