Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luigi pretended to cuff him across the ear . |
| 2 | He would try and remember to post it in the Sandyford Toll Receiving House on the way back , if nothing else intervened . |
| 3 | He grabbed my tie and I thought he was going to nut me in the face . |
| 4 | Even so , I had been surprised when he agreed to back me on the amateur circuit for one year after I left the university . |
| 5 | He turned to look at her , his glance intended to skewer her to the spot , forcing her to clutch self-consciously at the kimono she had slipped on while she had a nap after the arduous car journey into the mountains with Peter just now . |
| 6 | In my concern as Chairman of the Board was that er if very few people turned up then perhaps people might say that we did n't go around go about advertising it in the correct way what I think we actually did I 'm not sure how many people are here this evening , but I should think it 's somewhere in the region of about hundred and , hundred and fifty , so I hope that the meeting this evening sort of cross representation people actually use facilities which the playhouse offers . |
| 7 | I went to post it in the index book I 've got it 's stopped it 's been in |
| 8 | But as he tried to think of his work ( Charles had long since ceased to grace it with the name of ‘ his career ’ ) , his thoughts kept returning to the Steen situation . |
| 9 | In an interview soon after his appointment as Director General , Joe Pilling , a senior civil servant , was quoted as saying that the transformation of the Prison Service into an executive agency would help to distance it from the Home Office and achieve greater operational freedom , adding : |
| 10 | Quite how one of the other magazines managed to rate it as the ‘ top keyboard at the moment ’ is utterly beyond me ! |