Example sentences of "[adv] to [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Creggan followed her helpless gaze , out past the bars to the great sky itself and it seemed that direction came suddenly to him at last . |
| 2 | No-one said much to me at tea , although I caught them looking at me sometimes as they sipped at their mugs . |
| 3 | You know especially to me at the moment . |
| 4 | In Dennant v. Skinner ( 1948 K.B. ) the buyer had a van knocked down to him at an auction . |
| 5 | And they wo n't be miming along to it at club PAs either . |
| 6 | The reason is obvious to you but may not be so to them at all . |
| 7 | Well no when we started when the strike started in the mill , I told then , you know y I do n't know what you are going to do with us , I said , but the way you are carrying on now you are going to bring trouble into this quarry , cos these lads are n't going to give in to you at all that quick , what you 're trying to do , make them work for thirty pound a week less , so you better think it over now , I said , before it gets any worse . |
| 8 | I mean I 'll bung them in to you at some point |
| 9 | In fact , nothing seemed to get through to him at all . |
| 10 | Somewhat to his surprise , he was put through to her at once . |
| 11 | ’ Thank goodness I 've got through to you at last . |
| 12 | Finding that the Middlesbrough , Shields and Seaham branches had been accumulating funds , the Sunderland officials demanded that any surplus cash should be handed over to them at head office , threatening , according to Wilson 's account , " drastic action " if they failed to do so . |
| 13 | The wardenship was to be held by him , his wife , and his heirs by her , of the king and his heirs for ever : Brewer handed it over to him at Midsummer 1204 . |
| 14 | Instead he demanded that at least part of his inheritance should be handed over to him at once : either England or Normandy or Anjou . |
| 15 | A bunch of flowers , a dozen red roses , a tiny , unimportant little gift , but not to me at the time . |
| 16 | He had made no attempt to kiss her again — in fact , he seemed deliberately to avoid getting too close to her at all . |
| 17 | ‘ There were few people really close to him at that time . ’ |
| 18 | Close to it at a March meeting in 1585 accusations of a theft of some Scottish spurs and counter-accusations of ‘ a pretended matter beforehand ’ began to fly to and fro , until without warning someone on the Scottish side shot and killed Russell . |
| 19 | not straight to me at all |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The man had come up to her at the entrance to the library where she worked and just asked her . |
| 22 | Remembered the horrible , fair , insinuating Frome sidling up to her at the counter and suddenly , unexpectedly , braying out for the whole shop to hear in exaggerated cockney : ‘ Better not fatten him up too much , love , or he 'll be too heavy to baby-snatch . ’ |
| 23 | When she had picked up all her parcels and disentangled the umbrella from the bonnet of a fierce-looking old lady , she went up to them at a more decorous pace , and joined in their unfeeling laughter . |
| 24 | I got on the bus at the terminus at the bottom of Avondale Buildings and rode it back and forth to the other end of the line , sitting on the top deck , not knowing where I was or what I was doing , until the conductor came up to me at the other terminus , after my fifth trip , and asked : ‘ You all right , mate ? ’ |
| 25 | I HAVE several times told the story of the lady who came up to me at the end of one of my lectures on the relationship between science and music and said , ‘ It 's all very well doing all these scientific tests on musical instruments but can you explain the tingle in the spine that some music produces ? ’ |
| 26 | I remember a man coming up to me at Sandhurst and looking at the back of my hair and saying , ‘ What regiment are you going into ? ’ and I said ‘ The Grenadiers , ’ and he said ‘ You appear to be growing your own bear skin . ’ |
| 27 | A THEATRICAL lady doctor tripped up to me at a party in Covent Garden this week and told me she had phoned a film producer friend and asked how he was . |
| 28 | He also knew that the next few minutes could lose what chance had so miraculously delivered up to him at long last . |
| 29 | It is not that racism vanishes — in fact it intensifies and violence increases , but most children start to face up to it at this point , and their ‘ inferiority ’ usually clears away . |
| 30 | The Swann Committee had also noted ‘ the views expressed very clearly to us at our various meetings with parents from the whole range of ethnic minority groups that they want and indeed expect the education system to give their children above all a good command of English as rapidly as possible ’ . |