Example sentences of "[adv] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] " 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 | Other birds we saw around Nesseby included dunlin , familiar enough to me as a breeding wader of the Shetland hills . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | just a few weeks before her death he had written fondly to her on a postcard from Florence ( where the Sadler 's Wells Ballet went for the Maggio Musicale festival ) that she ‘ would love it so . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | But you may get to keep the other assets from the marriage , or pay less to her over the years . |
| 11 | That may be why he refused to speak to Miss Havisham directly , but spoke only to me during the conversation . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Ipswich captain Debbie Rawlinson is quite happy to be playing Chelmsford , especially after the 3–1 win away to them in the league . |
| 15 | I mean , here am I , chattering away to you about the outcome of the war … and you actually know , Cassie . |
| 16 | Unlike the others , sleep did not come easily to her before a job . |
| 17 | anyway to me on the way out , oh I really enjoyed that and we were crying our eyes out . |
| 18 | A BABY had lunch passed outside to her through a letterbox after bailiffs repossessed her family 's rented house . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They do this by guarding the female , staying close to her during the ten days or so when she is fertile . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | We 're brought close to him in a spiritual sense . |
| 23 | And he was turning her around , hauling her close to him in a quick , masterful movement . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He had not yet abandoned the idea of finding a woman who would commit herself totally to him as a life partner . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | My concern for pollution was positively brought home to me on a recent weekend backpacking trip in the Dark Peak . |
| 30 | My comparative lack of basic talent came home to me on the practice ground before the first round of the Amateur . |