Example sentences of "[adv] to [pers pn] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pulled my head down to hers with her bony arm and whispered , ‘ Love her , love her , love her ! |
| 2 | She is calm and ( usually ) sober ; Tod accepts these calls as one of his many duties , and settles down to them with resignation , with whisky glass , with patient perfecto . |
| 3 | months to get down to it with some coy types . |
| 4 | Knew a fellow somewhere in Evy that would n't be seen dead holding a black Polled cattle , so er he er came along to me with er farmer 's weekly , and a black Polled cow on it , and gave me a photograph of this man . |
| 5 | He asked permission to make the tea , which he did — and brought it in to them with the air of an old family retainer . |
| 6 | I 'm almost certain that 's what 's doing it to you so let's see if we can get through to it with that , |
| 7 | A small bouncy couple in their fifties got out , staring at the lights and the screens round Angela Morgan 's car , and came over to them with all the confidence of the middle-class member of a Neighbourhood Watch scheme . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When , some time later , one appeared , Owen handed the youth over to him with strict instructions to keep him in the local caracol until Owen would question him . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's for you ! ’ he said smartly , and handed the phone over to her with such promptness that she knew whoever was on the other end was someone important . |
| 11 | ‘ Doctor Livingstone , I presume , ’ he had said when they first appeared on the terrace and Flora had darted over to us with glad , accented cries : ‘ Richard , Elizabeth , what an extraordinary thing ! ’ |
| 12 | It 's real lovely to have Marie there so close to me with her brushing her fingers over my face . |
| 13 | So did Campbell , although he came close to it with his emphasis upon Christ as the perfect penitent who makes the perfect confession . |
| 14 | She was nobody 's doormat — though she 'd come perilously close to it with Hugh — but it was vital , in the present state of her finances , that she continue to live on board Water Gypsy . |
| 15 | Suddenly it came home to me with tremendous force that this was my last chance , the very last of all the countless chances I had thrown away just like this , because I had been too lazy or too proud to exploit them properly . |
| 16 | And it brought home to me with a rush something which had been slowly dawning on me ever since I joined the Air Force ; that I had been spoiled for quite a long time now . |
| 17 | it 's always a bit a it came home to me with great a vigour and enthusiasm when I was walking round the kitting station at R A F Innsworth with a supermarket trolley getting it filled with kit and when I got to the end they handed me my dog tags and my gun , I thought what have I let myself in for because I 'd never worn dog tags before and I 'd never had a gun with live ammunition in it that got strapped to my hip and you suddenly realise , I 'm going into a real war it was quite a nerve racking experience for a few days |
| 18 | But it had also been brought home to her with chilling clarity how easily he might have snatched her . |
| 19 | In mounting dismay she peered into the gloom , the invidious nature of her position coming home to her with a vengeance . |
| 20 | er and then came forth to us with it . |
| 21 | If we spot the fish we can cast directly to them with strong tackle and a big bait , or we can move from swim to swim until we find where a big barbel or two are feeding . |
| 22 | ‘ He came straight to me with the tale , ’ said Hugh , reckoning up in a low voice for Cadfael 's ear alone . |
| 23 | She had put on her hat and coat and was about to leave when he came up to her with two bunches of violets , so that she was able to press the cigarettes into his hand while taking the flowers from him . |
| 24 | Holmes , enthusiastic and friendly as ever , bounded up to her with the allotted amount of lead a fraction longer than I anticipated . |
| 25 | Chiang is brought in , looking as immaculate as ever , and the chief sidles up to her with ingratiating smiles on his hideous face . |
| 26 | She walked up to them with a kind of swagger . |
| 27 | She came up to me with , I noticed , slightly less bounce in her step than there had been the previous day . |
| 28 | At this moment about 11 people came up to me with two dogs . |
| 29 | She would rush up to me with , ‘ Gus is in Syria ! |
| 30 | In the next block a man I had never seen before rushed up to me with a jug . |