Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something with the consistency of cement began to splatter from Peters ' ripped torso , but still he clung on to it in the renewed savagery of his hunger . |
| 2 | The message seeped through to her via the depth of his kisses , the gentle strength in the fingers that ruffled her hair before kneading their way down her spine — and his arousal , which betrayed his hunger to make love . |
| 3 | Everyone stopped and looked around and one or two voices shouted back to him along the valley . |
| 4 | She eventually got through to her in the early evening . |
| 5 | ah well , we , we did er , that house we did in , in er Kingsley , well the other side of Kingsley by Northwich for er , he 's the managing director of Tarmac for the North West Division and there he bought this house at Kingsley and er we added on to it on the kitchen was a complete wing that we built , a single storey and the roof spars had to show we had to put imitation |
| 6 | Erm what , what was the feeling that came over to you from the tenants ' group at the time ? |
| 7 | My comparative lack of basic talent came home to me on the practice ground before the first round of the Amateur . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And he came once to me on the district to me I do n't know he went to others . |
| 10 | ‘ He came straight to me with the tale , ’ said Hugh , reckoning up in a low voice for Cadfael 's ear alone . |
| 11 | He came straight to us at the castle , and told us how he had found the body , and no question but he was greatly shaken and agitated , as well he might be , guilty or innocent . |
| 12 | I got on the bus at the terminus at the bottom of Avondale Buildings and rode it back and forth to the other end of the line , sitting on the top deck , not knowing where I was or what I was doing , until the conductor came up to me at the other terminus , after my fifth trip , and asked : ‘ You all right , mate ? ’ |
| 13 | I HAVE several times told the story of the lady who came up to me at the end of one of my lectures on the relationship between science and music and said , ‘ It 's all very well doing all these scientific tests on musical instruments but can you explain the tingle in the spine that some music produces ? ’ |
| 14 | We had lost the press buses and one of the Gofers , a merchant banker , came up to me on the tarmac to ask if I knew where they were . |
| 15 | He came up to me outside the church . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | Only a day or two after The Graduate opened , someone came up to him in the street and said , ‘ You know something ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He could not find Strawberry but after a time Cowslip came up to him from the other end of the hall . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ And then , one day , a man came up to you on the street . ’ |
| 22 | Her hand darted out to his across the table . |
| 23 | Alice Mair had heard the car and came out to him from the kitchen , wiping her hands . |
| 24 | As soon as we entered the restaurant the proprietor came out to us from the kitchen , rubbing his hands oilier on a tea towel . |
| 25 | As soon as they had made their way back , Bigwig came across to them from the bushes at the edge of the path . |
| 26 | Dane 's voice came softly to her through the darkness . |
| 27 | Caro 's voice came faintly to her above the noise of departure . |
| 28 | Between the Wars the cars were open at first , and drivers had to be well-clad in oilskins to avoid the cascade of water which poured on to them from the canopy of the open-fronted trams . |
| 29 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 30 | On the other hand though I was really drunk so maybe I only remember it that way John turned round to me at the end and said , I ca n't understand you All the people I know , when they get pissed , they start fights , whereas you just seem really happy |