Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our eyes met and all the while we were sitting down discussing what we had to do and how we were going to go about it over the four days of the course , my gaze kept returning to the sour-faced buzzard . |
| 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 | ‘ Here , ’ she says thickly , handing me a joint while she rolls the ice cube round in her mouth and tries to breathe through it at the same time . |
| 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 | The report on the projected sales for the next quarter , he asked for it at the last meeting , it 's okay . |
| 7 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
| 8 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 9 | The chief preoccupation of Methuen 's later years , apart from his painting , and one for which he denied himself many luxuries , was the restoration , maintenance , and improvement of Corsham Court , the family seat , and of the collection of pictures which hung in the magnificent gallery built and furnished for them in the 1760s . |
| 10 | Zach told her his age , which was nine , and spelt out his name , apologizing for it at the same time . |
| 11 | ‘ 2.4 million people done those Italians last weekend , I just read about it in the Daily Mirror . |
| 12 | In the event , it proved to be even tougher , dominated for us by the worsening situation in California . |
| 13 | Do n't worry , I 've told the solicitors that are appearing for us on the sixteenth of July that that 's the situation , that the have not joined in all of the partners |
| 14 | He was rather taken aback but said he would report to head office and let me know about it in the New Year . |
| 15 | Her body bounced between them in the light gravity . |
| 16 | But the fact remains that twenty seven months after legislation to allow clients to choose solicitors to appear for them in the higher courts came into effect , the Advisory Committee has been unable to advance the process . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Go and dump your shopping quickly and I 'll wait for you at the first bridge , ’ he suggested , indicating the expanse of parkland their building overlooked . |
| 19 | Yes , Mrs Jones , we have a room booked for you on the thirtieth of July — can I be of any assistance to you ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I really needed to go to the toilet , but that meant walking past them onto the other side of the hall . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Theoretically one can have the best materials taught by the best teachers , but although a number of films have been made , and probably will continue to be made , they have not had the success that was expected of them in the fifties . |
| 24 | I saw a group walking towards me through the ashen darkness . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Had Louis been inclined to forget the destiny his father had mapped out for him , he would have been forcefully reminded of it in the last decade of his reign , when his chief adviser was Suger , abbot of St Denis between 1122 and 1151 , a man of humble birth consumed by a passionate devotion to the cause of monarchy in the Carolingian mould . |
| 27 | A catapult lives with you until the last moment ; it stays tensed in your hands , breathing with you , moving with you , ready to leap , ready to sing and jerk , and leaving you in that dramatic pose , arms and hands outstretched while you wait for the dark curve of the ball in its flight to find its target , that delicious thud . |
| 28 | ‘ It would n't be wise to communicate with him in the usual way while he 's there . ’ |
| 29 | That makes me a bit peeved , you know : we can serve them , but not mingle with them on the other side . |
| 30 | 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 . |