Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What decisions , made arbitrarily and in anger , would be handed down to him in the morning ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She eventually got through to her in the early evening . |
| 6 | ‘ The Queen is in good health and will not hand over to him in the foreseeable future unless her health suddenly deteriorates . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mr and Mrs Is-the-Mitsubishi-Scratched-Yet went up to her in the street and pressed her hands between theirs . |
| 9 | I hope he makes it up to her in the end . |
| 10 | Shall I go up to her in the pub on Sunday I 'll say , hey Aunty Nora ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So to the middle-aged man who came up to me in the car park and confessed that in the fifth form he had been silently in love with me — why did n't he say so at the time ? |
| 13 | I was being given lists of telephone numbers , people were coming up to me in the Comedy Store and saying , ‘ Eh , are you the bloke who 's doing these odd photos . |
| 14 | People rush up to me in the street , and ask to touch me . |
| 15 | Because Mrs B , right she just prejudiced , she comes up to me in the Cookery lesson , tell me to clean out the dustbin , and I was so vexed I started to cry , I was so vexed by it . |
| 16 | Nobody walks up to me in the street and says , ’ God , I think you 're really sexy . ’ |
| 17 | If they come up to me in the members room of the City Hall and say ‘ hello ’ what am I supposed to ? |
| 18 | Only a day or two after The Graduate opened , someone came up to him in the street and said , ‘ You know something ? |
| 19 | A less judicial member of the Party came up to him in the lobby only half-convinced , but with tears of emotion running down his cheeks . |
| 20 | Does they tend to have more gumption , they tend to have to stand up to him in the end . |
| 21 | It was a very small audience , only about forty people , and he came up to us in the break and told us he loved it and wanted a T-shirt . |
| 22 | ‘ When strangers walk up to you in the street and scream abuse , it hurts , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Erm what actually happens if someone comes up to you in the night and says , My house has been burgled . |
| 24 | ‘ You see , if a beggar comes up to you in the street , you give him , or her , this card . |
| 25 | Past Glories suggested he is on the way back when third to Kribensis in the Fighting Fifth at Newcastle , while Floyd is not quite up to it in the highest class these days . |
| 26 | Yet nearly everyone shapes up to it in the end . |
| 27 | George had pointed someone out to me in the dayniter , but he was not the right person : grey haired , but too ill-looking , too old . |
| 28 | When at last they began to come out to her in the sun-drenched quadrangle on the Castle 's south side , where she liked to sit , she was patient and cautious . |
| 29 | All I had to do was to ferry myself out to her in the inflatable dinghy , with a jerrican of water and a bag of fresh vegetables , eggs , and some rashers of bacon . |
| 30 | This reversion to collusion is the carrot to induce the deviant to accept whatever is meted out to it in the punishment phase . |