Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our eyes met and all the while we were sitting down discussing what we had to do and how we were going to go about it over the four days of the course , my gaze kept returning to the sour-faced buzzard . |
| 2 | Ruling groups have found that their interests are best safeguarded if they are supported by a work force which can not think for itself in the coherent way writing affords . |
| 3 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 4 | I no longer cared about anything but the sexual charge passing between us . |
| 5 | ‘ Here , ’ she says thickly , handing me a joint while she rolls the ice cube round in her mouth and tries to breathe through it at the same time . |
| 6 | If the seller wants a margin , he must stipulate for it in the contractual description . |
| 7 | Having watched television documentaries about life in East Germany , Becker was keen to see for himself for the first time . |
| 8 | A storm of pain ripped through her like the indigo fingers of a tornado and carried her out on to a midnight sea . |
| 9 | Zborowski supplied the charcoal , paints , canvas , and brushes ; he also hired the models ( Modigliani insisted that they must be paid three to five francs an hour ) and any accessories , although the painter rarely asked for anything but the human figure for his work . |
| 10 | The report on the projected sales for the next quarter , he asked for it at the last meeting , it 's okay . |
| 11 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
| 12 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 13 | The chief preoccupation of Methuen 's later years , apart from his painting , and one for which he denied himself many luxuries , was the restoration , maintenance , and improvement of Corsham Court , the family seat , and of the collection of pictures which hung in the magnificent gallery built and furnished for them in the 1760s . |
| 14 | Because these will be resent as we know that have individual needs in individual ways and they often rub off one against the other if they live in closeness as we all do . |
| 15 | Zach told her his age , which was nine , and spelt out his name , apologizing for it at the same time . |
| 16 | ‘ 2.4 million people done those Italians last weekend , I just read about it in the Daily Mirror . |
| 17 | In the event , it proved to be even tougher , dominated for us by the worsening situation in California . |
| 18 | The courses are designed for anyone in the voluntary sector who is unsure how the changes will affect them or who simply wants to be better informed . |
| 19 | It would be misleading to corrall all the donated works into feminist questioning of gendered identity ; one of the freedoms women have won for themselves over the last 20 years has been precisely those freedoms from conventional definition by gender . |
| 20 | Do n't worry , I 've told the solicitors that are appearing for us on the sixteenth of July that that 's the situation , that the have not joined in all of the partners |
| 21 | He was rather taken aback but said he would report to head office and let me know about it in the New Year . |
| 22 | Her body bounced between them in the light gravity . |
| 23 | It does not do any harm to have a look and see what firms say about themselves in the various directories , including The Legal 500 , The Chambers Directory of Solicitors and Barristers and The Law Society Directory . |
| 24 | But the fact remains that twenty seven months after legislation to allow clients to choose solicitors to appear for them in the higher courts came into effect , the Advisory Committee has been unable to advance the process . |
| 25 | When he left his room , he knocked on the women 's door ; he would wait for them in the small restaurant at the front of the hotel . |
| 26 | ‘ Go and dump your shopping quickly and I 'll wait for you at the first bridge , ’ he suggested , indicating the expanse of parkland their building overlooked . |
| 27 | Yes , Mrs Jones , we have a room booked for you on the thirtieth of July — can I be of any assistance to you ? |
| 28 | Things , however , came to a head one day when a veterinary surgeon on his rounds , in a regulation Volvo estate , was alarmed to see Noddy tearing towards him on the wrong side of the road , in hot pursuit of a Transit van . |
| 29 | I really needed to go to the toilet , but that meant walking past them onto the other side of the hall . |
| 30 | Often this is because they fail to understand what is expected of them under the broad , general duties of the Health and Safety at Work Act . |