Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I no longer cared about anything but the sexual charge passing between us . |
| 4 | If the seller wants a margin , he must stipulate for it in the contractual description . |
| 5 | A storm of pain ripped through her like the indigo fingers of a tornado and carried her out on to a midnight sea . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 2.4 million people done those Italians last weekend , I just read about it in the Daily Mirror . |
| 10 | In the event , it proved to be even tougher , dominated for us by the worsening situation in California . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He was rather taken aback but said he would report to head office and let me know about it in the New Year . |
| 13 | Her body bounced between them in the light gravity . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I really needed to go to the toilet , but that meant walking past them onto the other side of the hall . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I saw a group walking towards me through the ashen darkness . |
| 20 | Instead of being cosily tucked up in her bunk near the bar , she surprisingly came walking towards me from the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's , her diamonds lighting small bright fires with every step . |
| 21 | ‘ It would n't be wise to communicate with him in the usual way while he 's there . ’ |
| 22 | That makes me a bit peeved , you know : we can serve them , but not mingle with them on the other side . |
| 23 | I think that he , who could have had as many friends as he wished , never realized how much it meant to a lonely and friendless person to have a friend , to be seen walking with him in the rose-red streets of Salamanca , to be able to go to a concert or an art museum with him , to have him opposite me at dinner in even the meanest , cheapest restaurant . |
| 24 | The doctor was walking with them towards the private rooms . |
| 25 | Nine others are appearing with him at the commital proceedings . |
| 26 | Nine others are appearing with him at the commital proceedings . |
| 27 | These planks he marked A , B , C , etc. , and all the man had to do was to sight along them in the proper order and he could not help getting the line right . |
| 28 | A Briton known to leaders of a charity based in Northampton discovered them and fled with them to the relative safety of Split . |
| 29 | He had sat with her in the long dark evenings , had made sure she ate at mealtimes . |
| 30 | Just as he disagreed with him about the essential or principal properties of body , Locke disagreed with Descartes about the mind . |