Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked about you down at the corner , the shop there . |
| 2 | Lek , the thirty-year-old maid installed for her along with the furniture by the Committee , telling her about the nine children and the mother up-country she supports and whom she rarely sees . |
| 3 | I 'll wait for you out in the corridor , ’ Bryce replied when she told him of her plan . |
| 4 | ‘ I just needed to see you ! ’ she said with a brittle smile , walking past him on to the hot beach , feeling the tears burn her eyes . |
| 5 | Still holding her arm , he was walking with her back along the avenue , down to the sea front . |
| 6 | Men , as he tried to pull himself to his feet , something big and heavy and square cannoned into him out of the dark and plunged off after the wizard . |
| 7 | The chosen person stands with her back to the rest and throws the ball over her head without looking to see where it lands . |
| 8 | It is more realistic to compare the cumulative incidence at necropsy with the cumulative risk of detection of clinical cancer and the risk of dying from it up to the age of 75 . |
| 9 | Had he been hoping for Doreen to arrive and say she was no longer interested in the large Hastings home and that she 'd be willing to live anywhere with him — even to work beside him out in the wilderness ? |
| 10 | This was dropped on me out of the blue , I must admit this course |
| 11 | Her mind flew back to the moment last evening when Benedict had come at her out of the shadows of the hall as she had come downstairs with Lady Merchiston 's empty supper tray . |
| 12 | Even as he did get his bearings a great tree swirled towards him out of the night and a rook he never saw rose up in alarm , cawing darkly away into the storm . |
| 13 | A large sign swooped towards them out of the night , its message glowing luminously in the beam of the headlights . |
| 14 | ‘ Wait for me back at the TARDIS . ’ |
| 15 | As he came towards her out of the darkness the inevitable shock of physical awareness swept over her , sharpened now by the experience they had just shared . |
| 16 | A white Volkswagen Beetle crawled towards me out of the fog and passed by on the left . |
| 17 | And when supper was ready he bade his knights take their seats , and he took the leper by the hand , and seated him next himself , and ate with him out of the same dish . |
| 18 | Coun Williams added local disabled groups were consulted during the planning stage of the scheme and would benefit from it along with the elderly and parents with pushchairs . |
| 19 | For here , thrust on her out of the darkness of her past , lay the reason she could never be his . |
| 20 | Guy 's voice , tight with frustration at his own helplessness , came to her out of the darkness . |
| 21 | Lyall , who piloted Town to the Second Division Championship in only his second season , said : ‘ Ipswich came to me out of the blue and brought me back into management . |
| 22 | ‘ It came to us out of the blue . |
| 23 | Because when , after seven or eight long seconds of genuine respect , he saw Howard looking at him out of the corner of his eye , he hastily hid the bottle of sherry behind his back and bowed his head . |
| 24 | The throaty rumble of twin diesel motors muttered at them out of the darkness . |
| 25 | Every ten minutes or so a larger swell came at them out of the darkness . |
| 26 | A heavy swell came at them out of the thick darkness . |
| 27 | What else was there to do ? she thought miserably as she squelched behind him up to the bathroom . |
| 28 | Waiting for me down on the sands — a great hulking shape , crouching there , darker than darkness . |
| 29 | I kicked the slippers that were there waiting for me out of the way and then we saw her standing with her back to the fire . |
| 30 | Marie had been waiting for him out in the car-park . |