Example sentences of "to [pron] and [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the people who run the shop are runners themselves and you can sort of go to them and ask their advice on all sorts of things |
| 2 | This is all of a piece with the way some men assume they may stare at women , stand close to them and invade their physical space by touching . |
| 3 | The first is a moral one , that if chimpanzees are really like man they may have the same capacity to understand what is happening to them and imagine their futures , which would make laboratory studies , especially physiological interventions , unacceptable . |
| 4 | Has he talked to them and recorded their verbal yes or no ? |
| 5 | I would open the door to them and check their names off in the appointment book , often unable to converse because of the language barrier . |
| 6 | I write to them and include your note . |
| 7 | He would have said much more , but Brown Owl , who had crawled under the fence , hurried to them and put her arms round poor , scared Mandy . |
| 8 | We want others to look to them and see their way of survival . |
| 9 | A DESPERATE couple lovingly clasped their handicapped daughter to them and ended their lives after their pleas for help went unanswered . |
| 10 | I have also had to tell others they are unlikely to get in and then try to explain the politics of the department to them and watch their dismay when they realize that , perhaps regardless of merit , they do not fit in . |
| 11 | An explanation in fact followed , after which Scipio , " grasping Polybius ' right hand in both his own and pressing it warmly , said : " Would I could see the day on which you , regarding nothing else as of higher importance , would devote your attention to me and join your life with mine " " ( 31.24 ) . |
| 12 | Quigley went to the door to check there was no one around , then , unable to stop himself , ran back to me and twisted my ear hard . |
| 13 | Then an acquaintance started talking to me and diverted my attention . |
| 14 | I know , woke up this morning she was , she was obviously cold , cat was right under the covers , snuggled right up to me and got her , her chin on me arm like that , I was asleep Justifying Nation , did you like that ? |
| 15 | McIllvanney turned back to me and dropped his voice very slightly . |
| 16 | When I started in the Preliminary Training School two and a half years ago my aunt had passed Little Ben on to me and had my name engraved beneath hers and grandfather 's on the back . |
| 17 | He came to me and put his arms round me and said , " I 'm terribly glad , " and from the simple way he said it I knew that against all the evidence he had believed me , perhaps because he wanted to . |
| 18 | Buff stood next to me and held my hand . |
| 19 | ‘ I happened to be in Annabel 's nightclub last year when a path was opened for Fergie and a man yelled ‘ hi ’ to me and introduced her highness saying ‘ Hey Tak , bow to the Duchess of York and say hello . ’ |
| 20 | Then suddenly an old man pushed his way through to me and shook my hand . |
| 21 | She came over to me and rested her hands on my shoulders . |
| 22 | The dressing-gown stomps up to me and jabs his shotgun against my chest . |
| 23 | After one TV show , a woman came up to me and cried her eyes out , not for my daughter , but because her dog was being ignored . |
| 24 | Here she raised her square white face up to his and sought his eyes . |
| 25 | He wanted to speak to someone and hear their voice speaking to him . |
| 26 | The combination of the words ‘ Agamemnon ’ and ‘ amalgam ’ mimes on the linguistic plane the process by which Mira 's Agamemnon , her amalga-mate , assimilates her to himself and denies her autonomous identity . |
| 27 | Where possible he would seize scraps of parchment and draw lines , muttering to himself and scratching his head . |
| 28 | Tony smiled to himself and drummed his fingers on the edge of the table . |
| 29 | This leaves the Philistines [ middle-classes ] for the great bulk of the nation ; — a livelier sort of Philistine than ours , and with the pressure and false ideal of our Barbarians taken away , but left all the more to himself and to have his full swing . |
| 30 | It need not be a big thing so long as it is something novel to you and breaks your normal routine . |