Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] to [pers pn] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At least 130 people have either rang or written to me in the last few weeks . |
| 2 | If Robert came to you and said in his gentle , somehow caressingly placid voice that I had admitted or confessed to him in ‘ obvious distress ’ that I had pushed my penis up between the hired legs of more than one hundred and fifty tarts ( including three on one single day , or two on one single bed ) then you would probably believe him . |
| 3 | She embraced her sobbing daughter and clung to her in desperate shame . |
| 4 | And in the year 1037 Ferdinand slew Bermudo the King of Leon in battle , who was his wife 's brother , and conquered his kingdom , and succeeded to it in right of his wife Doña Sancha . |
| 5 | However , even when legal principles are committed to one constitutional document , set out in legal codes or reiterated by judges over time , they tend to remain highly ambiguous and not worth the paper they are printed on until somebody — the judiciary — interprets and defers to them in their judgments , and somebody else — the executive — enforces those judgments . |
| 6 | He did his best to ignore it , failed , and reached out to the bedside table where it sat , throwing the receiver off its cradle and returning to her in one graceless motion . |
| 7 | If his guitar is his lover , watch as he beats her , caresses her and apologises to her in one fell swoop of his arms . |
| 8 | The issue is even more complicated in the world of sound recording , because we can not pick up a record and listen to it in the same way that we can pick up a book and read it . |
| 9 | Quite the opposite happened with the ‘ sea cucumber ’ : slimy , chewy , sweaty black and fed to us in quantities — then redefined as ‘ sea slug ’ . |
| 10 | We need biblical ways of practising the presence of God and to listen to him in the power of his Spirit . |
| 11 | and told to us in the days before he died |
| 12 | ‘ No , ’ he waved a sheaf of papers in the air , ‘ I 'd better go and see to it in person . ’ |
| 13 | Obviously , and understandably , working-class men and women took a very instrumental view of education and how it related to their needs and the opportunities available and open to them in society . |
| 14 | Of all the nurses she had known only Minnie Robinson had remained loved and revered and even now , when she was old and pensioned off , Miss Arabel visited her faithfully and turned to her in complete trust for advice and comfort . |
| 15 | She saw us as allies and babbled to us in a mixture of French and Arabic throughout the hymns , then sighed loudly and looked out of the window as the prayers droned on . |
| 16 | ‘ We would still appeal to any member of the public who has any suspicion or information to get in touch and talk to us in confidence . |
| 17 | But as he drew level with Grace Richard gave her a smile which melted her heart , and waved to her in a way entirely peculiar to himself , half way between a naval salute and a discreet gesture with the rolled umbrella . |
| 18 | He would soon argue for a Whitmanesque , democratic art , drawn from the people and distributed to them in popular editions , accessible to all and finding its way into ‘ workmen 's houses and farms ’ . |
| 19 | Once again we see the Spirit is related securely to the person of Jesus , and it is when the Spirit enables a man to see who Jesus is and respond to him in allegiance that faith is born . |
| 20 | Which brings us back to the beginning , and the need to recognise a horse 's emotions and to respond to them in a way which will not rouse the horse 's fear or anger . |
| 21 | They sat in his room whilst the wind whistled about the eaves of the Manse , and listened to him in silence . |
| 22 | It might be suggested that it is only through the presence of the frame that we recognize the work of art for what it is , perceiving it and responding to it in the appropriate way . |
| 23 | Loss of earnings and career prospects can be a serious matter for someone who knows that she is going to have to support herself for many years after her parents have gone ; and unless the home in which they are living is owned by them , and left to her in their will , she is also going to have to provide accommodation for herself when they die . |
| 24 | In the afternoon Bathsheba called her workers together , and spoke to them in the old hall of the farmhouse . |
| 25 | A man was walking past the girls across the street , looking at and talking to them in turn ; then he went off with one of them . |
| 26 | I sat him up , and said to him in a new voice that he was not to try and move without me . |
| 27 | In this chapter we suppose that b/d is sufficiently large that one may think in terms of a horizontally infinite layer , although we shall mention lower aspect ratio layers briefly and return to them in Section 24.7 . |
| 28 | If you prefer one day 's menu to another , make a note of this and return to it in place of one that does n't take your fancy . |
| 29 | The Nonconforming preachers took pity on the poor people left behind and ministered to them in their distress . |
| 30 | And I was able to go and talk to her in Washington , and , and really feel that history was coming alive . |