Example sentences of "[adv] to [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do this by guarding the female , staying close to her during the ten days or so when she is fertile . |
| 2 | But they had made her feel restless with their talk and it was in that mood that she 'd let the landlord get close to her by the open landing window as he was bringing up some more beer . |
| 3 | What an extraordinary position has been reached in some Christian theology , such that it is thought , at least at a subconscious level , that somehow Christ and Mary are a pair , Christ male and representative of men , and Mary female and representative of women , was brought home to me by the following incident . |
| 4 | It sounded as though the reality of what they were doing had come home to her for the first time . |
| 5 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 6 | This fact was abruptly brought home to him by the commanding voice ringing through the gloom of the overcast evening . |
| 7 | It had been hammered home to us during the previous winter . |
| 8 | He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written . |
| 9 | Sara stood by the open window and the scent of tobacco plant was wafted strongly to her on the warm evening air . |
| 10 | Travis had raised himself out of his despair to quip that she and his cousin both worked for the same firm , but the message that had come across to her from the dark steely look of Naylor Massingham was that that might be true now , but , since she had chosen not to heed his warning , one of them would not be working for the same firm for very much longer ! |
| 11 | ‘ Aye ’ I said in a trance and found myself moving closer to him on the broad warm bench . |
| 12 | That 's good news says Pyramid , because SNI is likely to get closer to it in the short term while these issues are being resolved , whatever the eventual outcome . |
| 13 | She swallowed jerkily , pressing herself more closely to him in the eerie darkness . |