Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or went to it during construction . |
| 2 | When he came , it was an anticlimax , but she squealed anyway and clung to him as if he 'd showered her with a gallon of spunk . |
| 3 | She embraced her sobbing daughter and clung to her in desperate shame . |
| 4 | Her thin denim jacket was sodden and clung to her like a wet tea towel . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Er , our importance has er , frankly now been recognised by the Prime Minister , who talked about the voluntary organisations not very long ago and referred to us as cement , which holds society together , and I think if that 's right , and hopefully , the government may take a bit more notice of us . |
| 7 | I think the persons who helped me most were the professional actors who were playing in the West End and came to us as teachers during the day . |
| 8 | She gave the king 's son honey to eat , and played to him on a golden zither , whose strings she brushed with a silver feather . |
| 9 | Rather than spend too long on developing a perfect composition , I settled for a core arrangement of objects that looked good together and added to it as the drawing and colouring progressed . |
| 10 | It was a backhanded compliment , the best he could do , and he straightened up and nodded to her before taking his cup from the counter and making his way towards an empty table . |
| 11 | He sank it and turned to me with a real glint in his eye and said something like , ‘ Now let's go . ’ |
| 12 | He shut the door of his apartment and turned to her at once , putting her shoulders against the wall , knocking her legs apart with his knee . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She thought for a moment and turned to him with flushed cheeks . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | I bought the dress she was looking at and chatted to her about it . |
| 18 | And they came in and chatted to us about it . |
| 19 | A couple of years earlier , when I was having a bad patch and went to him for a reassuring chat , he had told me not to worry about it . |
| 20 | He pushed aside the pan and went to her by the sink , wrapping his arms around her waist and pulling her back against him . |
| 21 | I have sat around tables with senior male television executives and listened to them on the one hand bemoan the lack of good women presenters and on the other make suggestions of possible women candidates so inappropriate as to be laughable . |
| 22 | They sat in his room whilst the wind whistled about the eaves of the Manse , and listened to him in silence . |
| 23 | ‘ Comm 's working , ’ she said , and listened to it for a few more moments . |
| 24 | He came up and apologized to me after lessons . |
| 25 | A pretty nest is selling puppies , he said , and sang to me of a nest ( not nurse ) from which puppies are hatched and sold , and there was a fireman and pedestrians with raincoats and walking-sticks , strolling the length of the roof as though it were an avenue , with a bright barber shop perched upon an antenna whose rust I could n't see . |
| 26 | And then I realized that the little cup she 'd brought with her out of the sea , and gave to me for Adam — that little cup could be none other than Undry . ’ |
| 27 | On the latter point the King felt the same confidence , although less reluctantly , and reacted to it with some lack of consideration by more or less commanding Baldwin not to leave the country for his annual expedition to Aix . |
| 28 | Stupid though it might appear , she went upstairs and spoke to them from an upper window . |
| 29 | In the afternoon Bathsheba called her workers together , and spoke to them in the old hall of the farmhouse . |
| 30 | The children stood on the top step and spoke to him over the half-door . |