Example sentences of "with [pers pn] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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1 | Tim , just come with me up to the toilet for a minute . |
2 | She cast suspicious , icy eyes at Robyn , a what-are-you-doing-here look , and continued , ‘ Now come with me back to the barn — we have a little surprise for you . ’ |
3 | They said they were looking for me and I had to go with them back to the convent . ’ |
4 | She wears big dark glasses and insists on sitting with her back to the throng , coincidentally facing the mirror . |
5 | She 's standing with her back to the window and I can see a sort of thin blue light round her body . |
6 | Mrs Hollidaye , supping porridge with her back to the flaming range and her face towards the window exclaimed , ‘ Why do look , Dorothy ! |
7 | In these scenes an unknown actress , impersonating Harlow 's voice , speaks the lines with her back to the camera or with her face hidden by a wide-brimmed hat ; at the sight of this , Boy simply got up and left the living room , left the end of the film unwatched and just sat in the kitchen with a pot of tea . |
8 | She had taken her last look at this obscure outpost of the Soviet Union and now stood with her back to the low sun . |
9 | Once more things were happening she had not caused to happen but now there was a difference and she sat with her back to the tree trying to discover what the difference was . |
10 | Then , with her back to the door , she sprinkled the rest of the contents of the bowl high into the air and out over the edge of the roof . |
11 | The chosen person stands with her back to the rest and throws the ball over her head without looking to see where it lands . |
12 | She made a frantic leap to shake them off , as they lifted her back and front nearside feet over the rope and positioned her with her back to the revving Mercedes again . |
13 | She sat with her back to the window and Lee felt somewhat at a loss faced , at last , by the elderly woman in the opaque , black-lensed spectacles and the expensive , rather drab suit , framed by sun-rays admitted through the tall crimson-curtained opening . |
14 | I kicked the slippers that were there waiting for me out of the way and then we saw her standing with her back to the fire . |
15 | Five minutes later , when he returned to the lawn , she was sitting with her back to the tree and , standing before her , he said , ‘ I do n't know how to thank you for your kindness . |
16 | When she returns to Pierre and Claire , they are unwilling to believe what she claims has happened but they drive with her back to the field and Maria finds the opening in the wheat where he is lying . |
17 | She stood with her back to the wall , sheltering from the rain : a sober , respectable woman in a burgundy coat and white knitted cap . |
18 | Tina would have plumped herself down in the nearest seat even if this had been next to a passenger but Cecilia , conforming to usage , sat in the emptiest area of the coach , on the platform side with her back to the window . |
19 | According to William , the man and the woman took all their clothes off and climbed into the bath so the woman was sitting with her back to the man , and the man peed into the water . |
20 | ‘ Apple sauce ? ’ asked Shirley , who was dishing up , with her back to the table , from a hotplate on a trolley . |
21 | The one where this governess is told to put on a special dress and sit with her back to the window . |
22 | His eyes swept the terrasse 's clientèle and an eyebrow twitched as his glance passed one of them in a way that directed attention to the woman sitting there , with her back to the street , facing them through the glass . |
23 | Fenella was standing with her back to the silver door , watching the Melanisms . |
24 | Way in the background , Lucy could see Josie with her back to the door as she cleaned up around the makeup chair . |
25 | She changed seats with Hugo so that she sat with her back to the other diners . |
26 | Anya is now standing with her back to the fireplace . |
27 | At one of the cupboards , with her back to the room she said : ‘ Terry did n't come home last night . ’ |
28 | He chooses Northamptonshire in 1792 and we journey with him up to the present and then into the future . |
29 | He was curious to see the minister , although he made Willie Hamilton come with him up to the gallery , so that he himself would not be noted by the dragon of a wife or her daughter . |
30 | like to look after my mother , er she was one , and she died now erm she died two years ago , I think she was one of the first to go and er , the other one they fetched him out of the street the chap then they corresponded with him up to the war but , but after that , they , I do n't know whether they stopped writing because of the war , I do n't know , but they never , never got in touch with them never again so |