Example sentences of "make [noun sg] to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer to that was made plain to him with a stab of dread when he ventured to peer out of his embrasure , for the tall figure was already at the top of the staircase and advancing silently and at leisure along the stone corridor . |
| 2 | I took him to about twenty houses and had made love to him on the splintery boards of about half of them before he decided that this was not a suitable town for his mother to live in — too quiet , too far from London — and the estate agent , whose car had been left standing in leafy side-streets for too many unprofitable hours , gave me a week 's wages and said he thought another job might suit me better . |
| 3 | Leonora took a deep breath and informed Penry that Guy had , indeed , made love to her to a certain extent . |
| 4 | So you 've just got to work out some way that 'll make sense to you for remembering which way round they go and probably one good way is just write them out quite a few times think of a lot of words beginning with D. |
| 5 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 6 | He should have wooed her , he should have talked to her , made love to her with sweet-talk . |
| 7 | But more often than not , whenever they were under the same roof together , he shared her bed and , now that her initial awkwardness had abated — for she had never seen a naked human being of either sex before and had always been discouraged from looking too closely at herself — he made love to her with a straightforward vigour she found attractive . |
| 8 | He made love to her with a driving desperation that matched the excesses which were to shock her in retrospect , and if his flesh bore the imprint of her nails and teeth afterwards , there were faint reciprocal marks on her body , mostly the legacy of an erotically suckling mouth . |
| 9 | Their feelings were intense , and he made love to her with an ardour she met and matched with a fiery passion that consumed them both in a blaze of glory . |
| 10 | After a while he took off her cardigan and his jersey and then the rest of their clothes , and made love to her on the folk-weave bedspread of her university bed . |
| 11 | She heard the sound of the sea , the cry of the gulls and then her own cry , as he made love to her in the same way as he had done long ago at the Angel Inn . |
| 12 | Ace made love to her in a silence made all the more potent when her roving caresses forced him to respond with a groan of pleasure as they touched each other intimately . |
| 13 | They swam then , and Damian made love to her in the hot sea , stripping her as they floated together , wrapping their bodies around each other in unreasoning desire , kissing saltily as their hoarse cries filled the air and they nearly sank like stones as Damian went rigid with pleasure , his fingers biting into her nude body in the warm water . |
| 14 | He said it was clear to him you were pining away , and that you could only be saved if I took you away and made love to you for the rest of our lives . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You ca n't make love to me like that and then expect me to carry on as if nothing 's happened . |
| 16 | He must , for had n't she let him make love to her after just a handful of meetings , when they hardly knew each other ? |
| 17 | How could he make love to her in English ? |
| 18 | That 's your business , but please do n't make love to her in my house , during a game . |
| 19 | For a while she even forgot why she was letting him make love to her in her surprise at the pleasure of it . |
| 20 | ‘ Did you think that I would make love to you for a few days and then let you walk out of my life without trying to get in touch ? ’ |
| 21 | I could make love to you in any room in the house , ’ he grinned . |
| 22 | Her heart thumped painfully as she remembered him making love to her for the first time , the hard , forceful thrust of his body coming much quicker than she had expected , an abrupt shock after all the gentleness that had gone before . |
| 23 | She was flicked back against him , clamped closer with one powerful arm , and as he looked down at her , hard and intent , he made brief , rhythmic movements , flexing chest and thigh muscles to make her slide down his body , her heart hammering … he was practically making love to her on the dance-floor . |
| 24 | ‘ I adore Ingrid , but I do spend a lot of time making love to her in the Baron and a man needs a change . |
| 25 | PS I confirm our telephone conversation today when we agreed to make payment to you within 21 days of the last drop . |
| 26 | Her mind slid over this problem and rejected it , her thoughts returning to memories of Johnny as he had been when he had attempted to make love to her on the previous night . |
| 27 | McAllister , still beset by that strange mixture of desire and fear which gripped her whenever he began to make love to her at even the lightest level , found herself shivering , but allowed him to continue , and when the next kiss found her lips she responded to him , timidly , it was true , but still a response . |
| 28 | You 've decided you would like to make love to me after all and what better way to do it than trying to win your way into my bed with flattery ? ’ |
| 29 | Sure , I do n't expect you to make love to me in the corridor , but even when we were alone you practically ignored me ! ’ |
| 30 | How then does he explain to himself why his first wife refused to consummate their marriage for months , and why his second — Mandy whom he first seduced when she was just 14 — should only have agreed to make love to him on four occasions during their marriage ? |