Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | What decisions , made arbitrarily and in anger , would be handed down to him in the morning ? |
| 3 | I have got in my diary that I 'm coming down to you on the twenty third of December ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He asked permission to make the tea , which he did — and brought it in to them with the air of an old family retainer . |
| 9 | So are gilts , especially if you nip in to them before the next — perhaps imminent — interest rate cut . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She eventually got through to her in the early evening . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Maggie added : ‘ Keith sees Rose whenever he wants , either by popping in here or she goes over to him for the day . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The Queen is in good health and will not hand over to him in the foreseeable future unless her health suddenly deteriorates . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But try and look at the fundamental basis of what they 're trying to put over to you on the video , okay ? |
| 21 | Erm what , what was the feeling that came over to you from the tenants ' group at the time ? |
| 22 | Only after that will he turn the remaining details of his zombi control over to us for the final phase on the island . |
| 23 | Holmes , enthusiastic and friendly as ever , bounded up to her with the allotted amount of lead a fraction longer than I anticipated . |
| 24 | The man had come up to her at the entrance to the library where she worked and just asked her . |
| 25 | Remembered the horrible , fair , insinuating Frome sidling up to her at the counter and suddenly , unexpectedly , braying out for the whole shop to hear in exaggerated cockney : ‘ Better not fatten him up too much , love , or he 'll be too heavy to baby-snatch . ’ |
| 26 | Mr and Mrs Is-the-Mitsubishi-Scratched-Yet went up to her in the street and pressed her hands between theirs . |
| 27 | I hope he makes it up to her in the end . |
| 28 | Shall I go up to her in the pub on Sunday I 'll say , hey Aunty Nora ? |
| 29 | I went up to her after the show to congratulate her on the song which was the best of the night . |
| 30 | Down beneath them the lights round the swimming-pool shone cheerfully , and the voice of the singer floated up to them in the starlight , as in a natural amphitheatre . |