Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | People got used to it in the war but now … well , time will soften the blow . |
| 2 | Trent said , ‘ Wind picks up , we 'll need to tow half of it in the Zodiac . ’ |
| 3 | I mean some of them at the going in at dinner time and have a couple , three pints it do n't hit them does it ? |
| 4 | Northamptonshire TEC says bluntly : ’ It became clear to us in the early summer that we would not be fulfilling our Youth Training guarantee . ’ |
| 5 | Claudine had probably dropped that on him at the last minute . |
| 6 | We shall consider each of them in the chronological order in which they came to Anselm 's attention . |
| 7 | Ivy was growing up its trunk and the recent gales had wrenched some of it from the bark . |
| 8 | If it is a very large contract then it may be reasonable for the builder to ask for interim payments as the work progresses , and you can discuss this with him at the outset . |
| 9 | We have studied the sediment from the bottom of Loch Ness and Loch Morar to discover whether the sea entered either of them after the last ice age . |
| 10 | We would we would like to see the controlling group showing equal commitment to keeping all of us in the black . |
| 11 | He 'll have forgotten all about it in the morning , ’ |
| 12 | Indenbaum did not take the proposition seriously , as he felt sure that Modi would have forgotten all about it in the morning , but Modigliani was insistent and asked Indenbaum if he had canvas and paint at home . |
| 13 | The government had recognised that the largest of these had a claim to continued autonomy and proposed to exclude ten of them from the jurisdiction of their surrounding counties . |
| 14 | He had discharged one of them from the infirmary in no worse condition than when he had arrived . |
| 15 | I used one of them on the |
| 16 | Were I to meet any of you at the golf club or the Mayor 's banquet I am sure we could talk as equals over a glass of sherry and a snipe sandwich . |
| 17 | I do n't think we actually used any of them in the end but it has got that cinematic imagery to it . ’ |
| 18 | Did you catch any of it on the local telly ? ’ |
| 19 | Jamie 's head lies motionless between us on the dirty sheets . |
| 20 | As she committed her life once more to God 's service at the conclusion of one of the big meetings an old retired officer who had been specially invited knelt next to her at the mercy seat . |
| 21 | Paper is a waste of time , so he drops most of it in the waste bin . |
| 22 | Sequestered within were Pet Shop Boys NEIL TENNANT and CHRIS LOWE — who earlier had the hair-raising experience of being mobbed in the cinema by ticket-buying fans who , in their rush to obtain autographs with menaces , completely ignored a squirming BARNEY from NEW ORDER/ELECTRONIC who was sat next to them at the time . |
| 23 | Rainses had sat next to us at the boat-yard tea-house , and we had asked him about boats to Be-ni Hasan , a group of tombs some fifteen miles upstream . |
| 24 | Blundering mechanics had got it mixed up with an identical model parked next to it in the workshop . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't think Liza thinks much of it in the winter . ’ |
| 26 | THESE FOUR boxes of action highlights from Pickwick enable the devout to exhume the 1992 World Cup , feeling it again as if they were in attendance in Australasia once more or seeing much of it for the first time if sleep and work schedules got in the way during those 33 hectic days and nights . |
| 27 | We have since learnt from an unreliable source that Arlo is so named because Mr and Mrs Bez were trying to work their way through a baby 's name book and got bored with it by the end of the ‘ A ’ section . |
| 28 | J.D. had told her on her last visit , when she had handed in the column she had just read , that there had been a large number of letters about Vesta 's contribution and he would be publishing some of them in the next issue . |
| 29 | Judging by her tone , she might even have transferred some of it to the absent Rose . |
| 30 | Each indicates quite specifically how a following statement will build on the preceding one , and we list some of them in the grid on the following pages . |