Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had barely finished congratulating ourselves and going round with the good news when Mrs Maddock 's little boy from the post office ran to tell us it had been torn down . |
| 2 | He held both her hands in his and looked down at the pale blur of her face . |
| 3 | With a final effort that she felt in every nerve of her body , she jerked her hand from his and turned away to the fire . |
| 4 | Nothing that went on in the town was a secret for long . |
| 5 | Well , I must admit there 's a bit of me that thrives slightly on the exam syndrome — something that gets the adrenalin flowing rather like ‘ first nights ’ . |
| 6 | First , do we really accept that a man in the act of undressing suddenly decides halfway through that he will hang himself and goes up to the garret without his boots on to carry out the terrible act ? |
| 7 | As he passed Jenny 's door he paused momentarily , but shook his head at himself and went on down the stairs . |
| 8 | Jim must have felt like accelerating to the point of wheelspin but restrained himself and drove sedately to the Hungarian post . |
| 9 | But Nicola 's husband recovered himself and padded over from the settee to switch off the television . |
| 10 | And , with that , Sergeant gathered himself and leaped right into the reeds . |
| 11 | Vigo did n't press him but poured a glass of Manzanilla for himself and sat down by the window . |
| 12 | The idea , according to one report , was for the capital 's defenders to surrender their arms to the UN , for the Serbs to keep theirs but to pull back from the city , and for the UN to create a ‘ security belt ’ between . |
| 13 | Instead Fera Pessima exhibits a quite different feeling of steady harmonic movement , which when considered together with the work 's wealth of comparatively strict imitation certainly suggests and essay in an altogether more ‘ up-to-date ’ manner , even if the date itself eludes inquiry . |
| 14 | You 're not allowed to work on it and er that 's about it really , our programme , we 've decided to er start the pipe at the first position away from the tank construction and we 've , we 've set out , we employed a concrete layer and to lay out the pipes while we 're doing nothing and continue on with the so that while this gang is actually laying there 's only er six people in total . |
| 15 | Then I could measure the speed of the wind inside me and know where on the scale I was in general located . |
| 16 | He swivelled his chair away from me and stared out of the window . |
| 17 | He would n't tell me and went straight into the bathroom there and it was ages before he came out . |
| 18 | He stopped a little way away from me and fell down on the grass and hid his face in his arms . |
| 19 | I just stay there , squatting down and the woman gives me a funny look and tugs the little girl 's hand and they walk round me and go off down the road . |
| 20 | I will leave them behind me and go only with the clothes on my back , and then I have two miles and a half and a byway to the town , and bring pretty well dressed I may come to some harm almost as bad as what I ran away from , and then , perhaps , it will be reported I have stolen something , and to carry a bad name to my dear parents … |
| 21 | I started to run up , straight up the hill , erm lucky the monster was running straight at me and sticking out of the crowd and he tripped over and after the end |
| 22 | He rolls off me and passes out on the pillow , the smell of his drunkenness lingering like something live . |
| 23 | What would I have done , I would have asked her to er get out of the bed , walk towards me and come out into the hall way where she could have been looked after by one of the other officers , and al allow me to get on with my main task in hand . |
| 24 | He pushed past me and ran out of the house . |
| 25 | She , Bambi , Nell and the Youngs made their way past me without looking at me and continued on along the corridor beside the kitchen , going to inspect the revised quarters which I knew were in the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's . |
| 26 | ‘ Yeah , well , ’ Andy says , coming to stand near me and look out over the water . |
| 27 | They left me and moved on to the little Jewish family . |
| 28 | I feared that without him I would batten down the hatches of the physical part of me and crawl back inside the shell which I had built around myself in the three years before he blew through my life . |
| 29 | She had let the lines go when the first brutal snap had straightened the nylon , and stood glancing back at me and staring up into the sky as I fought to control the power in the skies above us . |
| 30 | He clipped me and spun off into the wall and broke his neck . ’ |