Example sentences of "[adj] and [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I speak through this and it bounces of the dish to the other one . |
| 2 | A lot of time and thought has been given to this and it looks like the best way of dealing with it is … because … . |
| 3 | In fact , she was very old ; she was twenty-four years old and she worked in the mill and earned eight shillings a week . |
| 4 | The hareems , including ours , started to arrive about 9.30 and we drifted into the women 's majlis dressed in our best . |
| 5 | She was pretty and popular and she lived for the moment . |
| 6 | If you come out of our , out of a swimming pool and you 're wet and you stand on the side and you 're beginning to get cold , what 's your body reaction , what do you do ? |
| 7 | Tim was taller and broader and he leaned towards the old man like a creature caught in the instant of springing on its quarry . |
| 8 | the , yeah , twenty I mean , well that one goes different and they started at the same edge , ah two twenty twos oh |
| 9 | The Abbey was founded by David I in 1178 and he granted to the Canons the right to establish their own Burgh of Canongate between the Abbey and the royal burgh of Edinburgh . |
| 10 | The method is simple and it relies on the duck 's instinct to try to chase away a threatening fox . |
| 11 | I know but you but you see if it came to be something big and serious and it went into the newspaper he would . |
| 12 | ‘ I finished early and I called at the library for you . |
| 13 | alright and if you look at the diagram on page thirteen and you look at the little arrow diagram you 'll see that it gives it quite nice and clearly there is that alright ? |
| 14 | They were rumoured to wait until dark and them to cross into the white suburb and steal wallets from trousers draped across bedroom chairs while their white owners slept . |
| 15 | Thereafter the relationship became steadily more strained and he left during the 1978 season . |
| 16 | The horse was led back to its stable and I walked to the far end of the house , where there was a lawn of coarse-bladed grass , brown with the heat , some exotic-looking flowers in a stony border , and cushioned garden chairs standing bright in the dappled shade of what looked like a cherry tree . |
| 17 | The journey itself was pretty tiring , taking 21 hours in total and we arrived at the hotel at 5am . |
| 18 | Another species , however , has only about twenty young but provides them with more yolk each and they remain within the sac until they become froglets . |
| 19 | like that and they go round the windows . |
| 20 | Very few people at all would ever ever ever ever say that and we look at the , when we look at the , the erm format you 'll find called it a sadist because chains on him from because on him so that we . |
| 21 | I started on farm work and then er we left that and we started with the County Council . |
| 22 | And , and obviously it was ridiculous , every second word I was having to look up and then I 'd get all that and it moves onto the next one . |
| 23 | And Stefan , try to write up the Luxembourg so that the emphasis is on that and it detracts from the fact that we 're resurrecting those three tired old numbers we 've so often done before . |
| 24 | I 've not had the experience perhaps of teaching so many dyslexic children to be able to comment on this , but certainly when I was making the videotape at Brickwall School and I asked the headmaster about that and he pointed to the fact that they certainly have a very wide intake , a complete social mix , and Professor Miles at Bangor University says that in his experience of dealing with dyslexic children they come from all walks of life , and it 's really quite inaccurate — I suppose there 's a sense in which , if we 've got to use these phrases , that middle class people have always been very concerned about the education of their children and so they may be the parents who will ask questions about their children 's lack of development , but I think it 's only , you know , more significant in middle class terms because of that . |
| 25 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 26 | His industry was prodigious and he left to the Museum a volume of files , indexes , and notebooks filled with accurate and methodically arranged taxonomic work , together with his exceptionally fine library of works on Polyzoa and whales . |
| 27 | His output is prodigious and it springs from the unbending control he exercises over every aspect of his life . |
| 28 | Sunday dawned dry and we gathered in the church again for morning prayer ; followed by breakfast . |
| 29 | Stiff Little Fingers was my life when I was younger and I jumped at the idea of being able to do a few gigs without spending months away from home and having to worry about recording a new album as soon as we finished . |
| 30 | Nils shoved her hard and she fell into the deep satin embrace of a sofa . |