Example sentences of "[adv] to [pers pn] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked permission to make the tea , which he did — and brought it in to them with the air of an old family retainer . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In mounting dismay she peered into the gloom , the invidious nature of her position coming home to her with a vengeance . |
| 5 | ‘ He came straight to me with the tale , ’ said Hugh , reckoning up in a low voice for Cadfael 's ear alone . |
| 6 | Holmes , enthusiastic and friendly as ever , bounded up to her with the allotted amount of lead a fraction longer than I anticipated . |
| 7 | She walked up to them with a kind of swagger . |
| 8 | In the next block a man I had never seen before rushed up to me with a jug . |
| 9 | He had recovered his composure , and faced up to me with a chill warmth . |
| 10 | Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant . |
| 11 | I said , squaring up to him with the fish slice in my hand like a machete . |
| 12 | It mostly comes up to you with a clipboard and says 'Do you mind sitting in traffic jams , yes or no' . |
| 13 | Yeah , if they come up to you with a microphone and say would you like to say a few words for the television programme yourself |
| 14 | And upon the way they round a leper , struggling in a quagmire , who cried out to them with a loud voice to help him for the love of God ; and when Rodrigo heard this , he alighted from his beast and helped him , and placed him upon the beast before him , and carried him with him in this manner to the inn where he took up his lodging that night . |
| 15 | Woodruffe pushed it open , and the organized moan of pleading chords reached out to them with the smell of cold masonry and dusty matting and faintly dinging incense . |
| 16 | He bent down then , plucking something from the grass , then holding it out to her with a grave smile . |
| 17 | That has been contradicted by the hon. Member for South Shields ( Dr. Clark ) , who has said that he would take money from British farmers with one hand and give part of it back to them with the other . |
| 18 | When we finished the tour , we ended up in the same place and he comes back to me with the most beautiful guitar I 've ever seen — handcrafted in under a month ! |
| 19 | She wrapped up the clogs and gave them back to me with the instruction that I was only to wear the shoes when I came to call . |
| 20 | With her face close to his , she 'd say , ‘ Knobser , Knobser , Knobser , Knobser , Knobser , ’ in a gentle voice until his eyes focused and he came back to her with a groan of recognition . |
| 21 | ‘ You may bring a woman photographer , ’ Felipe de Santis said coldly , turning back to her with an astonished look that she should consider questioning him . |
| 22 | And the society investigates them , and if they are deserving , either refers them to some appropriate charity or grants them relief or refers them back to us with a note of recommendation . ’ |
| 23 | Because that written report is your evidence that they 've actually taken information , analyzed it , and come back to you with a solution . |
| 24 | There , they would check it off and whoosh it back to you with the customer 's change and the docket stamped . |
| 25 | Well , I am quite willing to find out from the City Council Officers after this programme what the numbers are , if that 's the issue you want explored , and we 'll come back to you with the precise details . |
| 26 | He was particularly adept , this one , at stopping a forward bursting through from the line-out with a startling iron-hard thrust from his stump as he pulled him on to it with the other … |
| 27 | We created something here , something live and good and untrammelled by the rigor mortis of this dying , stinking society clinging with its preying claws so hard to its privileges because it knows it 's dying , only it wants to kill everything else too , only able to say thou Shalt Not because it 's envious , because it 's cold and impotent — they only have to sniff a little bit of genius , of freedom , of life , and they 're on to it with the , lackey hounds tearing it up , and for why ? |
| 28 | The woman barely acknowledged Christina , and continued talking to Stephen , thrusting her abundant cleavage closer to him with every word . |
| 29 | Francie , still smoking at the table , laughed like a coffee grinder whirring , and Aunt Margaret , up to her elbows in suds , turned warningly to him with a finger on her lips . |