Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By imparting his enthusiasm to his pupils , impressing them most earnestly with the importance of their calling , he sent them out into the world with a store of self-respect which greatly contributed to uphold their position , and gave them an impetus to endeavour to raise its standard , which was often crowned with the most happy success ’ . |
| 2 | But if the line manager if in theory the line manager is taking feedback from them on immediately after the course and then going back to them after three months or six months . |
| 3 | I decided to wait until the sea took me somewhere safer on the north side of the island . |
| 4 | The Lord spoke to me right there in the church and said why do n't you go ? |
| 5 | A steward with grey hair and neat moustache waved me rather wearily into the cockpit where the pilot and co-pilot were carrying on a violently gestured argument which was to last all the way to Puerto Maldonaldo . |
| 6 | But if you turned round and said to them all right with the consent of the people and with the consent of the Planning Authority we will authorize a site , we would get on and provide it , and they would n't spend four hundred thousand pounds of the taxpayers money in doing it , and it does n't stop there because having spent the four hundred thousand pounds you 've then got to provide the wardening of the site and the constant maintenance , which is a drain . |
| 7 | Sarah collected some mugs from a cupboard and set them down close to the coffee maker ; she looked impatiently at the level of coffee in the jug , as if the slowness of the process was a familiar annoyance . |
| 8 | I turned away , no longer able to face the eyes that looked at me so coldly in the gleam of the dashboard light . |
| 9 | It will see me all right for the day . |
| 10 | We have said nothing so far about the Joseph story , and we have no space here to go into any detail . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , really ? ’ says Freddie , bending his lips upwards on one side of his face into a suggestion of general benevolence , but moving them only sparingly for the purpose of articulation . |
| 12 | ‘ So you want me in just for the plaster and to give your student laddies additional geriatric experience ? |
| 13 | ‘ Unless you change back to Mr Hyde overnight and lump me in again with the rest of the female sex you 're running away from . ’ |
| 14 | Cut each cake into three equal portions horizontally , and sandwich them together again with the buttercream and jam . |
| 15 | He jerked him to his feet , and separating the thin wrists he held , twisted them together again behind the boy 's back , and so thrust him painfully before him along the passageway to the staircase . |
| 16 | He sat me down roughly on the sofa and Mum said she was going to find out what I was on about . |
| 17 | You tell Cartier to send someone right away down the track looking for a rope or some such , eh ? |
| 18 | ‘ Was I all right in the house ? ’ he asked . |
| 19 | In National Mutual General Insurance Association Ltd. v. Jones ( 1988 H.L. ) the issue was whether the sections could operate to defeat the title of someone much earlier in the chain of events than C. Thieves had stolen a car and sold it to A who sold it to C ( a car dealer ) who sold it to D ( another car dealer ) who sold it to Jones . |
| 20 | Direct discrimination involves treating someone less favourably on the grounds of their sex or marital status ( the 1975 Act ) or colour , race , ethnic or national origins or nationality ( the 1976 Act ) . |
| 21 | In common with so much of this history of respectable fears , we find ourselves once more in the realm of feeling rather than fact , for although Baden-Powell never tired of claiming that Scouting could reach the Hooligans , on the available evidence it would seem that the movement 's major recruiting base was among middle-class and lower middle-class youths , rather than among slum youth . |
| 22 | She could not imagine any English capitalist taking kindly to the idea that someone out there in the jungle was ‘ looking after ’ him . |
| 23 | I had arranged myself ( while she arranged the flowers I 'd brought ) with my back nearly to the light . |
| 24 | Having on hand someone as fast about the field as Back , so quick on to man and ball , could well prove an invaluable option . |
| 25 | I , I certainly certainly from the chair I would agree . |
| 26 | ‘ We saw police taking them away early in the morning , ’ said a next door neighbour . |
| 27 | Since DTS started , God has been teaching me not only through the lectures , but through my time alone with Him and also through living in close quarters with people ! |
| 28 | Boy did not throw these letters away ; he kept them all , and indeed read them not only on the day that they arrived but again and again during the week before the arrival of the next one , but he did not keep these letters in his box , and he did not reply to them either . |
| 29 | When they get to know their customers , they recognize them easily anywhere in the world . |
| 30 | England twice beat them easily enough in the World Cup ( by 138 runs and eight wickets ) , but in the opening match of that competition , Pakistan only succeeded in defending 267 against them by 15 runs . |