Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want Matt to struggle alone with the barbecue — and that 's precisely what he 'll do if I 'm not there . ’ |
| 2 | She also asked Pamela to try again during the next week to draw up a list of ways she would like her parents to change . |
| 3 | David Gear hit the ball over the defence and Spence immediately changed direction and chased ; for some unknown reason , no flag appeared , allowing Spence to slot home past the helpless Warner to the annoyance of the home players . |
| 4 | Rose helped Maggie to write away for the forms and then to fill in the forms when they came . |
| 5 | ‘ If you 'd really wanted to hurt me , you 'd have let Ash go ahead with the publicity , would have backed him up , and I would n't have been able to deny it because it was all based on the truth , but a twisted truth ! |
| 6 | ‘ He 's in a coma , ’ Mrs Lomax wept , not noticing Tina hovering awkwardly in the background . |
| 7 | Seb opened the door to find Melody standing outside in the darkness . |
| 8 | I caught Michael sitting unashamedly on the bench again . |
| 9 | Seeing no sign of him and deciding it would be a bit theatrical to go peering under the furniture , she swung back to find Leo lounging easily in the doorway , one shoulder against the door-frame , arms folded across his chest . |
| 10 | His words made Tallis look sadly towards the mortuary house , a last shiver of loss making her huddle into her furs . |
| 11 | It was then that he noticed Whitlock standing discreetly in the background . |
| 12 | The fire finally doused with water , a young doctor across the hall was called and he advised Dustin to go immediately to the hospital . |
| 13 | With a sharp pang of defeat , he noticed Benny dive headlong through the weakened window , ending up in the water below with a huge splash . |
| 14 | I have n't noticed Reg writing much for the past few minutes , though . |
| 15 | as if in slow motion she had seen Benny travel backwards through the air , landing heavily on his back among the rubbish that littered the end of the garden . |
| 16 | Aggressive French patrols had prevented Sharpe getting close to the road a second time , but he had ridden near enough to see the dust clouds drifting away from the boots , hooves and wheels of an army on the march . |
| 17 | She decided this on Monday afternoon , having seen Anna digging manfully in the vegetable garden she had made behind the Rectory . |
| 18 | He advised Eden to stay away from the House of Commons and to make some non-political speeches in the country on subjects such as ‘ England ’ . |
| 19 | But this caused Aboyeur to veer away from the rails and collide with Craganour , carrying him out towards the centre of the course and interfering with the finishing runs of Nimbus — who had been far enough back at Tattenham Corner for his jockey to have seen the suffragette incident — and Great Sport , both coming up the stands side . |
| 20 | As you 'd guess , most of ‘ Mexican R'n'B ’ was recorded live ( although Edgar did have to double on guitar when regular guitarist Ged Lynn went AWOL in the middle of recording ) . |
| 21 | She had seen Guy fight before at the river crossing , but then he had been quick and efficient . |
| 22 | A glance at Luke obviously caused Florian to think better of the quip she could see hovering on his lips . |
| 23 | Last night I opened my eyes when it was dark and feeling a sudden want of air opened the window when to my astonishment I was in time to see Oreste carried past in the arms of an angel and I wept and called out to him but there was no reply and soon they were gone up to the heavens and lost sight of . |
| 24 | This in turn encouraged Samsonov to drive farther to the west than originally intended , before turning northward , in the hope of encircling even greater numbers of Germans . |
| 25 | She guessed Ben lived mostly in the kitchen , cooking neatly and painstakingly for himself . |
| 26 | ‘ Lines Written at Shurton Bars ’ shows Coleridge progressing rapidly from the bland natural description contained in poems such as the one he had written in May ‘ while climbing the left ascent of Brockley Coomb ’ , and opens the way to the ‘ Conversation Poems ’ of the following three years , where feelings of friendship and love — for Charles Lamb , the Wordsworths , his infant son Hartley — stand in close and creative relationship with luminous descriptions of nature . |
| 27 | Hopefully if the money is there to enable the works to be built , then we 'll see Venice safeguarded well into the next century . |
| 28 | Corbett allowed Ranulf to slouch sleepily in the saddle and waited for Dame Agatha to draw alongside him . |
| 29 | Easier to imagine Sisyphus looking forward to the cigarette which will make his lungs heave under the effort of work and which , when he has finished it and tossed away the butt , will add to the rubbish below . |
| 30 | But good work by Thorneycroft allowed Baldwin to get away on the left and , though Liley kicked a third penalty goal for the Tigers , Northampton 's challenge continues . |