Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The QDMs passed to you by the DF operator are now your track to the station . |
| 2 | Iron Josh beckoned him down , and Denis knelt beside him in the cart . |
| 3 | Ma peered at him over the top of the evening paper , Her eyes were shifty with guilt . |
| 4 | Hours of bending and stretching and twisting down on the prom in singlets and shorts while the wind whipped over us from the wintry sea . |
| 5 | Like one , all six typewriters stopped and six pairs of eyes gazed at him above the machines . |
| 6 | Bella peered at her through the dark . |
| 7 | Sun Microsystems Inc hopes to get one of its workstations on BBC1 's Tomorrow 's World science television programme in the UK tomorrow : Oklahoma State University 's Dr Marvin Stone has developed a hand-held device dubbed ‘ the thumper ’ which can measure the ripeness of a watermelon by delivering a blow to its skin and Sparcstations can put up a colour map indicating the ripeness of a field of watermelons from data downloaded to it from the thumper . |
| 8 | These images came to her from the metal engravings of the conquest of Libya which had appeared in the illustrated journals ; she did not remember the different countries of the Italian empire in question , for all of Africa — Libya , Somalia , Eritrea alike — beat out a rhythm of adventure and spoils and heroism . |
| 9 | When Pat came to me in the autumn of 1989 she was suffering from osteoarthritis of the neck and spine with accompanying raised blood pressure . |
| 10 | Her lips came towards him through the darkness , he felt the touch of her fingers at the most erotic points of his body . |
| 11 | He stabbed a man scrambling up the bulwarks beside him , and cheered as Hector 's galleys swept up to the shore and another horde of Macleans poured from them to the rescue of their clansmen . |
| 12 | Disappointed at the constable 's absence , since he and Richard had prepared a verbal message for their mother , Edward remarked on it to the servant , a stranger , who brought their supper . |
| 13 | Three or four cars wheezed past us on the dusty road . |
| 14 | When he threw open shutters to let in air and light , pictures sprang at her from the walls . |
| 15 | She followed , and Lucy waved at her in the mirror at every light . |
| 16 | Before she could utter the cry of alarm which rose in her throat his hand had closed over her mouth , and Paige 's startled eyes blinked at him over the top . |
| 17 | Grimma stared at her with the kind of expression reserved for people who turn out , against all expectation , to have interesting and secret histories . |
| 18 | Corbett stared past her at the timbered house . |
| 19 | ‘ I have n't any serious plans to marry him , if that 's what you 're asking , ’ she told him as levelly as she could , and had the hardest work in the world in hanging on to her temper when his glance flicked from her through the open door into her sitting-room . |
| 20 | As one wag said to me at the time , ‘ Only R is different ’ . |
| 21 | Yeah but you say to her that they 're always on about how s Shrimpy ca n't do anything for himself , and it 's between Emma , it 's not between it was al even Scott said to me at the beginning oh it 's not between me , it 's nothing to do with me , it 's between Emma and Scott . |
| 22 | Their conversation ceased as the eloquent tones of Michael Stein carried towards them on the public address system . |
| 23 | His eyes ran over her from the wild disorder of her pale hair to the agitated beating of the pulse in her throat and the smooth rounded thrust of her breasts , and he looked at her angrily . |
| 24 | Neil Spencer wrote about it in the New Musical Express beneath the headline ‘ Do n't Look Over Your Shoulder , But The Sex Pistols Are Coming . ’ |
| 25 | The voice could then be raised until the instrument responded to it above the level of the background noise . |
| 26 | That weekend is also memorable for something Dana said to me in the train on the way back to Salamanca : ‘ I knew you were gay as soon as I saw you that morning in the galleria . ’ |
| 27 | His mouth closed over hers with the passion and glory she knew would never die and she melted into his impassioned embrace with a heart that was free to be his at last . |
| 28 | Sometimes the dark arch of a crumbling doorway loomed past them in the gloom . |
| 29 | ‘ Andy Gould , ’ I say , because — apart from everything else — Andy stayed with me during the summer , round about the time the card with my writing on it went missing . |
| 30 | Simon 's big head and loose mouth loomed above him against the ridiculous English summer sky , which was the color of iron . |