Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were the sort of respondents who nicknamed the fieldworker ‘ Tell her Nothin ’ and ‘ Nosebag ’ , and tried to assert informal checks on colleagues who were conversing with her by reminding them of the notepad and that she ‘ writes everything down ’ . |
| 2 | Moreover , these activities are interactions between students , and as such may fail to alert them to the choice and ordering of information produced by native speakers . |
| 3 | Long after he left to become a flight engineer it continued to light them through the war and for many years after . |
| 4 | We really felt that this was a book to push on , and so we talked to the trade very early on , consulted them on the jacket and so on . |
| 5 | He was much respected for his knowledge of golf courses , but was a throwback to the days when caddies wore old macs or tweed overcoats , slept rough in the summer , and in October committed a misdemeanour mild enough to ensure six months in jail to see them through the winter and send them out sobered up and refreshed for the new golf season . |
| 6 | Camino came to see me in the bank and asked if the village girls would be prepared to collect food and take it on their bicycles to the prisoners . |
| 7 | The association and others criticise what I describe as independent inspectors , but we can reassure them in the Bill and elsewhere by showing how powerful HMI will be in ensuring that standards are up to the required level . |
| 8 | Here the unconscious mind takes the more specific form of Christabel 's sexuality and sexual desires , which she has been taught by her upbringing to disregard , and even to suppress , seeing them as the dark and evil side of human nature . |
| 9 | And it seemed to her that she was at least two people , for the person who had plunged them into the forest and brought them to this spot was not the same as the person who sat here waiting for Allen to say what he was doing , and for the Friar to return . |
| 10 | Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room . |
| 11 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 12 | He met them at the gate and was smiling . |
| 13 | And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow . |
| 14 | Although the other judges would not look at the assessors ' lists , Burn met them at the hall and compared his list of preferences to theirs . |
| 15 | When I met them after the game and asked them what they thought , they said the highlight was listening to the girl behind them telling her mate that if Batty did n't start playing better then she 'd have to start denying him sex ! ! ! |
| 16 | Talbot led them to the wardroom and gestured them to their seats . |
| 17 | He led them across the hall and through the dining-room , down a corridor and into what he explained was a private dining-room where members could entertain groups of friends or associates . |
| 18 | The barmaid led them from the bar and up some rickety steps . |
| 19 | When , sometimes , I think back on the beauty of life on a South Seas island , I start to wonder how fate could possibly have propelled me from the rain and bedraggled leafless winter trees of England to such distant enchantment . |
| 20 | I thought he would , he deserves it and suddenly the semi-circle is clapping and looking at me : ‘ She 's won , she 's a-a-a won , ’ I hear John shout from half-way up the stalls , and my fellow contestants are slapping me on the back and pushing me to the front of the stage , |
| 21 | He propelled me off the terrace and through the shuttered dining-room . |
| 22 | Oh goodness I do n't think , I think they stopped using them during the war and I cr see that used to be like the gasworks , the gasworks you always used to have clogs , they used to have wooden soles , did the gasworks and then they used to have erm like a steel bar underneath or round the sole |
| 23 | Obligations of this kind are sometimes found in the Articles , as an alternative , or in addition , to including them in the subscription and shareholders ' agreement . |
| 24 | He grasped my elbow and led me through the hallway and into a long room knocked through the whole length of the house . |
| 25 | Maybe I mentioned about the fillings coming out on this side of my mouth and at the back , so I ca They took it out in my living room and hypnotized me to forget , hypnotized walking about in my sleep with it , to sleep , got me in the chair and done it , got out of the house , programmed me to go to that dentist in , which I did do instead of going to Mr at . |
| 26 | But you pat me on the bottom and send me home , and hope I 'll ‘ keep in touch ’ ! |
| 27 | Everyone laughed , and the captain clapped me on the back and called me a good fellow . |
| 28 | They laughed and clapped me on the back and handed the container round the circle again . |
| 29 | ‘ So I 'd like you to drive me in the pony and trap , just till I know where people live . ’ |
| 30 | Returning to my first meeting with Vincent , Arthur Cheyney naturally became my hero , especially when he took me on a trip from Ipswich to Parkeston Quay , which completely sold me on the job and made me resolve to move heaven and earth to get on a cutter crew as soon as possible . |