Example sentences of "[adv] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Harvey spent a lot of time in the office and apart from asking me if I 'd spoken to Dawlish — a suggestion which I impassively denied — he did n't say much to me until the morning of the third day , which was a Tuesday .
2 Nobody said much to me after the service .
3 You know especially to me at the moment .
4 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 ?
5 I can never be grateful enough to them for the sacrifice they made to keep me at school , when even ten shillings a week would have relieved the pressure on the food bill .
6 If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed .
7 What decisions , made arbitrarily and in anger , would be handed down to him in the morning ?
8 I have got in my diary that I 'm coming down to you on the twenty third of December ?
9 There seems little doubt that Trow Gill once brought down a stream , this entering as a waterfall at the gap now occupied by boulders , and this theory is confirmed by the dry channel coming directly down to it from the heights above .
10 We have a traditional culture , which comes down to us from the time of the Renaissance , and our literature , which is rich , draws its life blood therefrom .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 It 's a rare person who can ignore a letter sent personally to him over the signature of Clint Eastwood or Charlton Heston , saying ‘ I need your help ’ .
14 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 .
15 He asked permission to make the tea , which he did — and brought it in to them with the air of an old family retainer .
16 So are gilts , especially if you nip in to them before the next — perhaps imminent — interest rate cut .
17 1991 we had two trees with flashing lights , and a local family , whose children had written in to us about the trees , were invited to switch them on .
18 But you may get to keep the other assets from the marriage , or pay less to her over the years .
19 That may be why he refused to speak to Miss Havisham directly , but spoke only to me during the conversation .
20 Mr Larkin says his suffering is worse for knowing that Gary had only agreed to go to Chorley at the last minute after two people , a man and a woman , had spoken separately to him on the phone .
21 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 .
22 Ipswich captain Debbie Rawlinson is quite happy to be playing Chelmsford , especially after the 3–1 win away to them in the league .
23 I mean , here am I , chattering away to you about the outcome of the war … and you actually know , Cassie .
24 anyway to me on the way out , oh I really enjoyed that and we were crying our eyes out .
25 He would always teach trainees : " If a client asks you a question you do n't understand , say — " Hold on a minute sir , a call has just come through to me from the States " — put him on hold then , and ask me .
26 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 .
27 The message seeped through to her via the depth of his kisses , the gentle strength in the fingers that ruffled her hair before kneading their way down her spine — and his arousal , which betrayed his hunger to make love .
28 She eventually got through to her in the early evening .
29 Remember what I did there I got three themes and for each one I got three subthemes so that what you put over to them to the audience are those three themes .
30 Aitken asserted at the trial , and this view was certainly supported by independent witnesses , that no word about confidentiality was ever uttered , but the document was handed over to him on the footing that it would be returned within a very short time .
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