Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sailing along quite the thing and we were right down I du n no how far , if we were right in the middle of them or just on the edge of them , but we were not far from them . |
| 2 | In the quality of their enthusiasm there is nothing to choose between them or indeed in the sums of money they are anxious to spend . |
| 3 | He said : ’ That 's not fair our motivation is done by ourselves and not by the manager . |
| 4 | She told me that just across the road there lived what she described as a mantenuta , a kept woman , whose lover visited her every day : she could be seen waiting for him behind the semi-closed shutters . |
| 5 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |
| 6 | Of the two archers the younger was tall and fair with a ruddy complexion , the other was of medium height and stalwart build , his hair grizzled at the temples , his eyes grey , his mouth well set above a firm chin , and his expression one of habitual good-humour , as though of a man at peace with himself if not with the world . |
| 7 | He went into her giant bathroom to take his mind off things and stood there awhile between her mirrors , thinking not particularly of how he looked himself but mostly of the inflections that she had caught from Fred , and also of how it must feel to be this negligently perfect child , who had obviously never in her life spent herself combating a flaw . |
| 8 | He had a second book , started at the outset of the Falklands War , which though still in the form of a diary , was more of a journal . |
| 9 | She stamped past me and on down the corridor . |
| 10 | The music came clearly out of the room , and flowed round me and out through the colonnade into the light . |
| 11 | Tremayne glanced briefly across at me and back to the road . |
| 12 | In fact it seemed to siphon autonomy and information away from me and back to the people at the top . |
| 13 | The second came when Bennett and Carter both went for the ball , which bounced off the pair of them and again into the net . |
| 14 | The latter — that is , those living with spouses and with younger people — are most likely to obtain support from those living with them and little from the state . |
| 15 | Lord Oliver described the relationship in the following way : ‘ … the purpose for which the auditors ’ certificate is made and published is that of providing those entitled to receive the report with information to enable them to exercise in conjunction [ with others ] those powers which their respective proprietary interests confer on them and not for the purposes of individual speculation with a view to profit . ’ |
| 16 | But , why did the Dock Commission decide to make it compulsory for the men to be employed by them and not by the firm ? |
| 17 | She stared away from them and up beyond the cage towards the grey sky , and Creggan saw in her eyes a longing and a hope that he sensed had been with her all her long life , and was with her even now when he saw she was so near death . |
| 18 | With fewer defence contracts around , American aircraft manufacturers such as Rockwell and McDonnell Douglas have been pressing Boeing to redirect subcontracting work towards them and away from the Japanese . |
| 19 | I bent down and turned him until I had my hands under his arms , his back towards me , and I floated him along in the water to the steps and there strained to pull him up them and out onto the grass . |
| 20 | The serjeant rubbed his chin and looked at them and then at the friar , sucking in air noisily through his blackened teeth . |
| 21 | But even here the story does not end , for after fifteen or twenty years , the urge to breed and migrate once again comes upon them and down to the river mouths they proceed , slithering over wet meadows by night until they reach the greater river , lying up by day in damp holes , enough water remaining in their gills to enable them to breath . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've read most of them and am of the opinion they do the author a disservice . |
| 23 | I turned the switch and I regret to inform you that out of the loudspeaker came a lot of old Irishmen singing maudlin songs . |
| 24 | However , she felt that this manifested itself nor only in the kinds of statements made and questions posed in interviews but also in day-to-day work in the school . |
| 25 | Make a mental note of the things you find are most important to you and also of the things you habitually do that could perhaps go without too much hardship because they are not an essential part of your well-being and happiness . |
| 26 | Keep visualizing the circle of air as it moves through you and round to the diaphragm . |
| 27 | Okay , what I 'm going to do now is I 'm going to split you in , into groups , I want to split you into two groups , we could have up to you , and the dividing line will be you and then at the back there . |
| 28 | Now the presidency and his executive branch became a political directorate , which increasingly aggregated political power within itself and away from the legislature . |
| 29 | But a causal circumstance , as specified earlier ( p.46 ) , most certainly does not include all of the causal history of itself and hence of the effect . |
| 30 | However , the latest amendments to the Building Regulations require much higher standards of insulation than ever before and have also belatedly recognised the problems that over-insulation can cause as far as condensation is concerned — both inside the house itself and also within the building 's structure . |