Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A local man had been bullied into guiding them through the treacherous , quaking waste . |
| 2 | Listening to this I on the whole thought that in a real sense he never really quite answered them , on the other hand he made every single person look silly . |
| 3 | Brooke-Rose incorporates these into her novels but refuses to subordinate them to the narrative conventions of realism . |
| 4 | And after the curtain call , when he was going upstairs to the extras ' dressing-room and had bumped into Mr Potter — she was n't talking at second-hand but had actually witnessed the scene — far from showing remorse he had confronted him as though he was going to head-butt him for the second time . |
| 5 | ‘ Er — Jim 's just got to OK it with the boss , ’ he said uncertainly . |