Example sentences of "and [vb past] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her thin denim jacket was sodden and clung to her like a wet tea towel . |
| 2 | She gave the king 's son honey to eat , and played to him on a golden zither , whose strings she brushed with a silver feather . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He sank it and turned to me with a real glint in his eye and said something like , ‘ Now let's go . ’ |
| 5 | She saw us as allies and babbled to us in a mixture of French and Arabic throughout the hymns , then sighed loudly and looked out of the window as the prayers droned on . |
| 6 | But as he drew level with Grace Richard gave her a smile which melted her heart , and waved to her in a way entirely peculiar to himself , half way between a naval salute and a discreet gesture with the rolled umbrella . |
| 7 | A couple of years earlier , when I was having a bad patch and went to him for a reassuring chat , he had told me not to worry about it . |
| 8 | He pushed aside the pan and went to her by the sink , wrapping his arms around her waist and pulling her back against him . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Comm 's working , ’ she said , and listened to it for a few more moments . |
| 11 | A pretty nest is selling puppies , he said , and sang to me of a nest ( not nurse ) from which puppies are hatched and sold , and there was a fireman and pedestrians with raincoats and walking-sticks , strolling the length of the roof as though it were an avenue , with a bright barber shop perched upon an antenna whose rust I could n't see . |
| 12 | Stupid though it might appear , she went upstairs and spoke to them from an upper window . |
| 13 | In the afternoon Bathsheba called her workers together , and spoke to them in the old hall of the farmhouse . |
| 14 | The children stood on the top step and spoke to him over the half-door . |
| 15 | And do n't forget , Joe was with me , and you know how careful he is. lee was at the party and one of the maids told me that she took him out of the party and spoke to him for a few minutes . |
| 16 | And Anwar was very patient with Changez , and spoke to him like a four-year-old , which was the right thing to do . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | Periodically she turned to me and spoke to me like a teacher to a beloved but dull-witted child . |
| 19 | Patsy and her sons arrived in the village on Friday evening and spoke to us on the telephone . |
| 20 | I sat him up , and said to him in a new voice that he was not to try and move without me . |
| 21 | And Jeannie , I remember Jeannie well and wrote to her for a while , but she was not much of a correspondent . ’ |
| 22 | This is one where I put the price up and then we went and wrote to him with a net price list showing a lower price than I 'd put up and we had to reduce it . |
| 23 | Have we always seen such change and uncertainty and responded to it in the same way ? |