Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 And I 've still nothing to report to you on the buses or trains .
2 And I 've nothing to report to you on the buses or trains .
3 British rail tell us that the Scotland to Brighton train which is due to call at Oxford at 5.35 is running 2 hours late this evening , but I have nothing to report to you from the buses .
4 British Rail tell us their services are running to schedule this evening and I 've nothing to report to you from the bus services in the area .
5 There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking .
6 Why did you let me read about it in the papers ?
7 A friend of the Websters ' son ( who was in the Middle East ) took to visiting the house rather often , and one evening he asked me to go with him to the cinema in Bletchley .
8 Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated .
9 A man I 'd met only twice , a bit of a loner , invited me to go with him to the West Indies .
10 ‘ You want me to work for you after the way you 've treated me ?
11 The Americans forged ahead not only because they could deploy greater resources , but also because they were more ruthless in seeking out key German experts during the chaos of the German surrender , and in persuading them to work for them in the United States .
12 Everyone deferred to him in the casting of lots , and after he had tossed his white counter into the bowl which was placed in the centre of the chamber there was a wild scramble for precedence .
13 At their recent meeting Nether Wyresdale Parish Council asked me to write to you about the following :
14 Peter called to him : ‘ Lord if it is you , tell me to come to you over the water . ’
15 He was rather taken aback but said he would report to head office and let me know about it in the New Year .
16 In any proceeding in which no pre-trial review has been fixed , the district judge may nonetheless give notice to the parties requiring them to appear before him on the day named in the notice , so that the question of giving directions may be considered ( Ord 17 , rr 10 and 11(4) ) .
17 I asked for it at the suggestion of my cousin Sarah , who was slightly older than me and whom I greatly admired .
18 Then I asked of him concerning the suffering .
19 So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write .
20 I read about it in the paper today
21 Or the poster I produced for you of the doves of peace made with human hands .
22 Afterwards I sit with him in the room at the back , the late afternoon light still coming in through the windows .
23 You were on a raised platform and I passed before you in the parade . "
24 I rode with them in the cab ( we tossed the oneliners back and forth ) — to our destination .
25 I build to it during the lost-in-the-wood speech and then it starts a bit uncertainly and then they really get it and it hits the show like a trumpet solo .
26 Thoughts about how the spectacles would appear to me if I moved towards them leftwards must be related in the correct way to thoughts about how they would look if I moved above them to the right ; thoughts about their being artefacts must be related to thoughts about their not existing before a certain time or not coming into existence in the kitchen as the kettle boils .
27 I peered at them round the end of the house .
28 ‘ You are a good officer , Merymose , ’ he said at last , ‘ and although I disagree with you about the capability of our Medjays , I respect your judgment .
29 I suggest to them at the beginning of each session that they will learn about a different existence from any they may already have experienced .
30 I am told by my Mother that I was a charming baby ; I used to he in the middle of the bed , kick my legs into the air and coo all day long .
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