Example sentences of "[adv] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Maggie added : ‘ Keith sees Rose whenever he wants , either by popping in here or she goes over to him for the day . ’ |
| 32 | ‘ The Queen is in good health and will not hand over to him in the foreseeable future unless her health suddenly deteriorates . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | But try and look at the fundamental basis of what they 're trying to put over to you on the video , okay ? |
| 35 | Erm what , what was the feeling that came over to you from the tenants ' group at the time ? |
| 36 | Only after that will he turn the remaining details of his zombi control over to us for the final phase on the island . |
| 37 | A bunch of flowers , a dozen red roses , a tiny , unimportant little gift , but not to me at the time . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | They do this by guarding the female , staying close to her during the ten days or so when she is fertile . |
| 40 | But they had made her feel restless with their talk and it was in that mood that she 'd let the landlord get close to her by the open landing window as he was bringing up some more beer . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | Yet again , a big , comparatively heavy bait such as a lobworm , on a clean bottom may require only a few inches , for the sheer weight of this bait means the bream has to position himself quite close to it for the suck to be effective . |
| 43 | My comparative lack of basic talent came home to me on the practice ground before the first round of the Amateur . |
| 44 | It was brought home to me by the death of a friend 's dog last week . |
| 45 | What an extraordinary position has been reached in some Christian theology , such that it is thought , at least at a subconscious level , that somehow Christ and Mary are a pair , Christ male and representative of men , and Mary female and representative of women , was brought home to me by the following incident . |
| 46 | It sounded as though the reality of what they were doing had come home to her for the first time . |
| 47 | It was through this most improbable passage of Scripture , taken home to her by the Spirit , that she in due course became a Christian . |
| 48 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 49 | This fact was abruptly brought home to him by the commanding voice ringing through the gloom of the overcast evening . |
| 50 | It had been hammered home to us during the previous winter . |
| 51 | This was vividly brought home to us during the filming of Supersense . |
| 52 | And he came once to me on the district to me I do n't know he went to others . |
| 53 | Listening once to him on the Bench I recalled an occasion when the aged and formidable boys ' maid who looked after our rooms had stood with arms akimbo accusing him of some peccadillo , and ended her tirade : " Mr Phillimore , do n't you stand there lying like Ananias ! " |
| 54 | Sir , should any additional representations be sent directly to you after the close of the enquiry , I I I for one do n't know whether this would happen or not , but what are the administrative arrangements for dealing with that ? |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | Later I trained a kestrel which I found much less inquisitive and more likely to come straight to me for the food . |
| 57 | ‘ He came straight to me with the tale , ’ said Hugh , reckoning up in a low voice for Cadfael 's ear alone . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | Holmes , enthusiastic and friendly as ever , bounded up to her with the allotted amount of lead a fraction longer than I anticipated . |
| 60 | The man had come up to her at the entrance to the library where she worked and just asked her . |