Example sentences of "and [vb past] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than spend too long on developing a perfect composition , I settled for a core arrangement of objects that looked good together and added to it as the drawing and colouring progressed . |
| 2 | He pushed aside the pan and went to her by the sink , wrapping his arms around her waist and pulling her back against him . |
| 3 | I have sat around tables with senior male television executives and listened to them on the one hand bemoan the lack of good women presenters and on the other make suggestions of possible women candidates so inappropriate as to be laughable . |
| 4 | In the afternoon Bathsheba called her workers together , and spoke to them in the old hall of the farmhouse . |
| 5 | The children stood on the top step and spoke to him over the half-door . |
| 6 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 7 | Patsy and her sons arrived in the village on Friday evening and spoke to us on the telephone . |
| 8 | Have we always seen such change and uncertainty and responded to it in the same way ? |