Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were stars of the hard left , but we have heard little about them during the election struggle . |
| 2 | It crept stealthily towards him over the mud , advancing , retreating , advancing again like a living creature stalking its prey . |
| 3 | Gathered loosely around him on the roadside verge , the two youngsters and the three truckers had been joined by Rocky and Larsen . |
| 4 | They suppose that collective responsibility can be assigned only through something like the first method we noticed in the accident example . |
| 5 | ‘ Great brutes , liable to trample all over you at the drop of a hat . ’ |
| 6 | She had been walking away from him towards the path that led to the gate and she turned her head and said , ‘ Did n't want to disturb you ; you looked so peaceful , asleep . ’ |
| 7 | It sounded as though the reality of what they were doing had come home to her for the first time . |
| 8 | Gedge and Solowka became interested in Socialism and actually tried to discover more about it outside the school . |
| 9 | Even before she was finished speaking he was walking quickly from her towards the house . |
| 10 | Now hear this : I will take provisions only if you take me to Elaine and provide both of us with the things I ask for . ’ |
| 11 | Later I trained a kestrel which I found much less inquisitive and more likely to come straight to me for the food . |
| 12 | Today , when Florrie arrived at the corner-shop and rapped on the closed front door , Aunt Emily lifted the roller-blind and peered shortsightedly at her through the glass . |
| 13 | Travis had raised himself out of his despair to quip that she and his cousin both worked for the same firm , but the message that had come across to her from the dark steely look of Naylor Massingham was that that might be true now , but , since she had chosen not to heed his warning , one of them would not be working for the same firm for very much longer ! |
| 14 | By contrast , he did inherit a destructive family situation which weighed heavily on him for the rest of his life . |
| 15 | A faint wisp of smoke rose ahead of me from the town dump . |
| 16 | You seem to have impressed our number-one driver as well , because he too has asked if you could be released to work closely with him for the rest of the season . |
| 17 | She peered appraisingly at herself in the mirror , pulling faces as if she were alone , and I was embarrassed by her candour . |
| 18 | Alan dabbed hurriedly at him with the towel and picked him up . |
| 19 | There she is , in the other photograph , guileless and fervent , leaning forward across her desk , philosophizing away at me from the broad steppe of her Slavic soul . |
| 20 | The feathers floated away from him on the light breeze , catching at the grey budding branches of the tree beneath him , drifting down to where the few Men and People who were there looked helplessly up . |
| 21 | Suddenly I have twisted the gun out of his hand — but it flies away from us across the ground . |
| 22 | She had brought herself a new swimsuit but after she had changed she 'd stared critically at herself in the mirror in the changing-room . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , I live here , ’ I said , looking nervously from one to the other . |
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| 25 | We also reveal much about ourselves by the way we dress and by our hair styles . |
| 26 | So clearly now , the , there 's some merit in looking afresh at it in the light of five B , being able to match the kind of funding that 's available there . |
| 27 | At first this was hard to prove , since local authorities were now given many new relief duties : at the same time a number of extensive taxation rights were transferred away from them to the Centre . |
| 28 | Having quoted the opening of Gormenghast in 1.4 as an example of an opaque style , we shall now return to another passage which occurs shortly after it in the same novel . |
| 29 | The ravine widened and opened upon the sly , the curtain-wall with its vast bulk of darkness curved away from him to the right , and left him . |
| 30 | I measure sixty paces along the wall and then walk away from it to the nearest tree . |