Example sentences of "to [pers pn] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her friends turned to her and said , " You do n't like it , do you ? " and she turned to them with a smile of triumph , swallowing hard , and said , " Oh , it 's all right , really . " |
| 2 | Alex listened to them with a smile on her face but an increasing chill in her mind . |
| 3 | Their minds being on Emma , they waited for Peggy to go on , but after placing a piece of wood on the fire she turned to them with a smile , saying , ‘ What about a drink ? ’ |
| 4 | And Lenin , who had talked only at party meetings , before audiences of Marxist students , who had hardly appeared in public in 1905 , now spoke to them with a voice of authority that was to pick up all their undirected energy , to command their uncertain confidence , and to swell suddenly to a world-wide resonance . |
| 5 | ‘ Now this is what a pub should be like , ’ he said to them with a grin . |
| 6 | She walked up to them with a kind of swagger . |
| 7 | We can only pass an Act of Parliament and give it to them with a slap on the back and a ‘ best of British luck ’ : ‘ Here 's your constitution , ’ we say , ‘ now do what you like with it ; you can because you are now independent . ’ |
| 8 | And mother used to attend to them with a doctor like you know . |
| 9 | You would not have gone to them with a theory of the death of Jesus — you would have gone to them with great wonder saying : ‘ It is incredible , but our Lord is alive . |
| 10 | That has been contradicted by the hon. Member for South Shields ( Dr. Clark ) , who has said that he would take money from British farmers with one hand and give part of it back to them with the other . |
| 11 | The experiment in which people inflicted electric shocks on subjects who were actually actors is known to all psychology students , and even journalology has an important study that depended on deception : editors had papers that they had already published resubmitted to them with the titles and addresses changed and then rejected most of them — providing evidence , the researchers argued , that editors and referees were biased against authors from provincial universities . |
| 12 | IBM came to them with the notion , the firm says . |
| 13 | But what could be worthier of my human intelligence than to discriminate between and interrelate the parts of a painting or musical composition with the concentration of a mathematician solving a problem , yet respond to them with the immediacy of a dog pricking up its ears ? |
| 14 | Woodruffe pushed it open , and the organized moan of pleading chords reached out to them with the smell of cold masonry and dusty matting and faintly dinging incense . |
| 15 | We are trying to get to them with the message that smoking kills unborn and newborn babies . |
| 16 | When we return to them with the scrutiny of our adult minds , they appear as towering shelters , full of colour and minutely-remembered detail . |
| 17 | He asked permission to make the tea , which he did — and brought it in to them with the air of an old family retainer . |
| 18 | This was sent to them with an information leaflet . |
| 19 | This is not always the case , though — I once had a kestrel that I 'd decided from its plumage was a male and it turned out to be a female , and although this has never happened to me with a barn owl , I know people who 've made that mistake . |
| 20 | He turned to me with a pair of calipers in his hand . |
| 21 | ‘ Yet still you hold out your arms to me with a smile that would melt an iceberg . |
| 22 | ‘ I used to rehearse what I 'd say to my students if they came to me with a problem like this , ’ said William , ‘ but no one ever did . |
| 23 | He said , ‘ Tell your sister she must send you to me with a message , and I 'll be there . ’ |
| 24 | He had recovered his composure , and faced up to me with a chill warmth . |
| 25 | Why do you come to me with a proposal for something you have resisted all along ? ’ |
| 26 | And it brought home to me with a rush something which had been slowly dawning on me ever since I joined the Air Force ; that I had been spoiled for quite a long time now . |
| 27 | We carried on a rather halting conversation and it came to me with a bump that my mind had been forced on to different tracks since I had left her . |
| 28 | In the next block a man I had never seen before rushed up to me with a jug . |
| 29 | There 's , there 's several had the flu and there 's three of them next to me with a headache yesterday . |
| 30 | Joan Young , her architect husband Edward , and their young son Paul , grew clearer to me with every Thrush Green book that emerged . |