Example sentences of "[adv] to [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would not disturb you , would it , if I had to bear our child in this hole , among this dirt — I have hardly been able to keep clean over the time we 've lived here , with only a jug of cold water — and the unbearable food , and hardly enough light to see by when I have to read your script aloud to you in the evening , and then give you your pleasure in the bed every night with that woman listening through the wall ? |
| 2 | What decisions , made arbitrarily and in anger , would be handed down to him in the morning ? |
| 3 | The mutilated text of the passage of Polybius has come down to us in the Excerpta de sententiis and the keyword " he wept " , has to be supplied from Diodorus ( 32.24 ) with the support of Appian , Punica 132 : they are known to have used Polybius directly or indirectly . |
| 4 | She had enticed them in like an old witch , Val said , by talking volubly to them in the garden about the quietness of the place , giving them each a small , gold , furry apricot from the espaliered trees along the curving brick wall . |
| 5 | Singing along to them in the middle of the jungle did seem a little odd , but it kept our minds off things , even if it invited torrents of abuse . |
| 6 | Mum and Dad were all tight and not saying much and Annie just chatted away to me in the back and Simon kept licking at the suitcase like it was a bone or summat . |
| 7 | Ipswich captain Debbie Rawlinson is quite happy to be playing Chelmsford , especially after the 3–1 win away to them in the league . |
| 8 | Piper may be articulate and polite , but he is genuinely tough and a real threat to Benn — who I believe must get through to him in the first six rounds or face disaster . |
| 9 | She eventually got through to her in the early evening . |
| 10 | ‘ The Queen is in good health and will not hand over to him in the foreseeable future unless her health suddenly deteriorates . |
| 11 | She was just cursing herself for not having had the courage to go straight over to him in the first place when he appeared again , a little further down . |
| 12 | Of course in rural situations this can be overcome by merely peeing outside , a course of action not open to you in the city , unless of course you live in London where it does n't matter much what you do in the street . |
| 13 | The feel of her body close to his in the carriage made him want to hold her , and he was tempted to cover her attractive though work-worn hand with his . |
| 14 | He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written . |
| 15 | Mr and Mrs Is-the-Mitsubishi-Scratched-Yet went up to her in the street and pressed her hands between theirs . |
| 16 | I hope he makes it up to her in the end . |
| 17 | Shall I go up to her in the pub on Sunday I 'll say , hey Aunty Nora ? |
| 18 | Down beneath them the lights round the swimming-pool shone cheerfully , and the voice of the singer floated up to them in the starlight , as in a natural amphitheatre . |
| 19 | So to the middle-aged man who came up to me in the car park and confessed that in the fifth form he had been silently in love with me — why did n't he say so at the time ? |
| 20 | I was being given lists of telephone numbers , people were coming up to me in the Comedy Store and saying , ‘ Eh , are you the bloke who 's doing these odd photos . |
| 21 | People rush up to me in the street , and ask to touch me . |
| 22 | Because Mrs B , right she just prejudiced , she comes up to me in the Cookery lesson , tell me to clean out the dustbin , and I was so vexed I started to cry , I was so vexed by it . |
| 23 | Nobody walks up to me in the street and says , ’ God , I think you 're really sexy . ’ |
| 24 | If they come up to me in the members room of the City Hall and say ‘ hello ’ what am I supposed to ? |
| 25 | Only a day or two after The Graduate opened , someone came up to him in the street and said , ‘ You know something ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Does they tend to have more gumption , they tend to have to stand up to him in the end . |
| 28 | It was a very small audience , only about forty people , and he came up to us in the break and told us he loved it and wanted a T-shirt . |
| 29 | ‘ When strangers walk up to you in the street and scream abuse , it hurts , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Erm what actually happens if someone comes up to you in the night and says , My house has been burgled . |