Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ It does n't matter , ’ he replies and goes on to ask her to take care of two suitcases full of Austrian shoes he has brought with him with the intention of selling on the black market . |
| 32 | Then comes Christmas morning , which explodes joyfully as children rush to the Christmas tree to see what Santa has brought for them during the night . |
| 33 | Years ago I read a sentence which has remained with me through the years . |
| 34 | Having seen last year 's giant-killers Canada get a taste of their own medicine in Pool F , losing to the impressive Koreans ( 16–12 ) , Fiji soon realised that the other seeds were going to struggle to live with them on the rice-paddy pitch . |
| 35 | It had been one of those deep , deep sleeps ; the kind when you do n't know a thing until your mum starts yelling at you for the umpteenth time that you 're going to be late for school if you do n't get up . |
| 36 | These have to be married with the individual dreams of each business who , in addition to achieving the best they can ask for their business , have to perform and deliver what the board has asked of them for the company as a whole . |
| 37 | We tried to reason with them about the bathroom . |
| 38 | Anyone who has served with him at the Department — and I am talking not just about his present ministerial team — knows that he not only brings a greater degree of expertise to his job than anyone I can remember but does it with great inventiveness in terms of improving benefits and with an exceptional degree of compassion and , above all , integrity . |
| 39 | Although an opinion poll last week suggested they could just secure the required number of seats , the tide is expected to turn against them in the course of a three-week campaign . |
| 40 | And I tried to get on it at the beginning of the week but he told me it was fully booked . |
| 41 | Les left the party for what he calls ‘ the superior ideology of Moral Re-Armament , ’ and has worked with us for the past sixteen years . |
| 42 | It 's a secret that the man who led a double life has taken with his to the grave . |
| 43 | But Gary had come to think of it as The Hook . |
| 44 | It says that at least some of the characteristics of this hyper-individualist people can not be explained by what has happened to them in the Ottoman time and since , because these characteristics predate the Ottomans . |
| 45 | Everything that has happened to her over the past year has been genuine , from breaking her thumb to the operation , not to mention all the hassle she has had from standing by her father . |
| 46 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 47 | What has happened to me in the group is that my own perceptions of myself and others have been modified by group norms , which may only be mine marginally . |
| 48 | He will shift very rapidly between different representations of the equipment ; the thing itself , his maintenance instructions , the manual , the drawings of the system , verbal discussion with a colleague , his recollection of what has happened to it in the past and so on . |
| 49 | What has happened to it in the course of its life ? |
| 50 | This short article is to let you know what has happened to us over the last few months . |
| 51 | Now given the nature of the coastal economy and what has happened to us in the last ten years or so , we have calculated our conversions through to two thousand and six on a reducing level . |
| 52 | So often , what has happened to us in the past determines whether or not we find it easy to trust both ourselves and others emotionally as adults . |
| 53 | And everything that has happened to you in the way of learning . |
| 54 | On her way out Mrs Bradshaw again suggested that I phone the police , and I promised to think about it in the morning . |
| 55 | We w er we would , we would only need to pay for them at the rate where they lived . |
| 56 | I 've had a wonderful run , and I 've enjoyed it hugely and I just ca n't say what it has meant to me over the past four marvellous Ryder Cups . |
| 57 | It is a bit difficult it 's like it 's almost you want you want to get inside it at the back of it do n't you ? |
| 58 | When I tried to explain to them about the golf-ball it only made matters worse . |
| 59 | Others may need to rely on it pending the grant of legal aid . |
| 60 | There is a copy here if Members want to browse through it in the small hours of morning . |