Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] to him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone stopped and looked around and one or two voices shouted back to him along the valley . |
| 2 | When Sigarup climbed up the ladder , straining under the weight of his basket , the dog sidled over to him with a low unearthly grunt of pleasure . |
| 3 | The Englishman told me that if someone came up to him in a queue he would punch him in the face . |
| 4 | Only a day or two after The Graduate opened , someone came up to him in the street and said , ‘ You know something ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He could not find Strawberry but after a time Cowslip came up to him from the other end of the hall . |
| 7 | Alice Mair had heard the car and came out to him from the kitchen , wiping her hands . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She made up to him for the son he had never had , the wife who had left him , even the dull Selene , who would never come to anything . |
| 10 | " Anywhere , " we called back to him from the bow . |
| 11 | ‘ Thank you ! ’ she called out to him over the hubbub . |
| 12 | He did n't pause as Dessie Burns called out to him from the hardware shop , he did n't notice Mr Kennedy looking over his glasses at all the bottles and apothecary jars in the window display of the chemist 's shop . |
| 13 | He went up to him before the meeting and said , ‘ This is the race that is going to decide between us as to who is going to be the number one . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ He 's a really big man , both physically and in terms of his character , and I really looked up to him as a tower of strength when we were doing Neighbours . ’ |
| 15 | She could feel that she was already soaking wet as she nuzzled up to him like a happy , purring cat . |