Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , gulping the sweet air , I gazed about me gratefully at the clean green land where I worked and made my living . |
| 2 | Can you think about it just off the top of your head ? |
| 3 | ‘ Now will you wait for me here in the dark till I take back the keys , and not imagine I 've locked you in to starve ? |
| 4 | ‘ We can wait for them here on the highway . ’ |
| 5 | Sharon 's boyfriend Matthew Stanton , 21 , was walking with her just behind the happy , giggling girls at the time of the accident early on Saturday evening . |
| 6 | But just at that moment Cedric was obviously working something else off because the familiar pungency rose from him even above the billowings from the pipe . |
| 7 | He moved in her slowly to the rhythm of the distant sea . |
| 8 | The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit |
| 9 | She was attracted to him partly by the little-boy-lost quality which she now finds so infuriating . |
| 10 | Thus , an insurer has no reason to expect to have such enquiries addressed to him regardless of the sum insured. : |
| 11 | He peered at him suspiciously through the gloom . |
| 12 | She woke in the early dawn and peered around her blearily through the heavy mist that filled the wood . |
| 13 | Although it is of course true that people can be greatly helped by having the opportunity to talk about their impending loss , ( both their worries about it and their wish to talk about it together with the person who is dying ) this must be when the time feels right for the people involved and not when the helper , professional or lay , deems it appropriate . |
| 14 | One time , somebody went looking for him all over the place . |
| 15 | We 've been looking for you everywhere for the past hour ! |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been looking for you all over the house . ’ |
| 17 | Unlike reference , substitution , and ellipsis , the use of conjunction does not instruct the reader to supply missing information either by looking for it elsewhere in the text or by filling structural slots . |
| 18 | That tray had just been prepared for me personally by the cook ! |
| 19 | The roles of parents and children gradually become reversed and children start to look after their parents and worry about them instead of the other way around . |
| 20 | They 're looking after you well by the look of it |
| 21 | It was probably a very good thing in far more ways than one , Harry reflected , that Aubrey would be living with them here at the farm for several months . |
| 22 | But surely Mr Donson , E two , and I use your phrase , E two land does n't carry with it anywhere near the same degree of status er as A O N B or triple S I |
| 23 | As he took his handkerchief out and wiped away the water that was still dripping from the front of his hair , a voice said , ‘ I would n't drink that if I were you ; the cows wash in it just round the corner . ’ |
| 24 | Although comedy came to him easily in the sense that he seems to have made the class laugh at will from a tender age , it is , like everything else , something that he works at and it annoys him when others fail to do so . |
| 25 | The cough and splutter of an aircraft engine came to her clearly on the still evening air . |
| 26 | But no cries came to them there on the terrace , the darkness lit by the moon , the bright stars spread like a net across a sky that never lost its blueness , the scented tapers burning between the statuary of the amorous god . |
| 27 | The Council 's role does not seem to have changed drastically under the Yorkists , although its activities are only revealed to us obliquely in the records . |
| 28 | Not only is it believed that God , through creation and revelation , has made known His will for humankind , a will revealed to us supremely through the words and actions of Jesus Christ , but He has continued to guide His church . |
| 29 | We find it helpful to number modes so that we can refer to them simply in the form νsubn ; . |
| 30 | ‘ Anyway , I 've a horrible feeling I do n't want to talk to him just at the moment . |