Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My comparative lack of basic talent came home to me on the practice ground before the first round of the Amateur . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And he came once to me on the district to me I do n't know he went to others . |
| 4 | ‘ He came straight to me with the tale , ’ said Hugh , reckoning up in a low voice for Cadfael 's ear alone . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As soon as they had made their way back , Bigwig came across to them from the bushes at the edge of the path . |
| 7 | Dane 's voice came softly to her through the darkness . |
| 8 | Caro 's voice came faintly to her above the noise of departure . |
| 9 | Mum and Dad were all tight and not saying much and Annie just chatted away to me in the back and Simon kept licking at the suitcase like it was a bone or summat . |
| 10 | It 's a rare person who can ignore a letter sent personally to him over the signature of Clint Eastwood or Charlton Heston , saying ‘ I need your help ’ . |
| 11 | That may be why he refused to speak to Miss Havisham directly , but spoke only to me during the conversation . |
| 12 | Nobody said much to me after the service . |