Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] and [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I had sucked my third of a pint of milk dry I picked up my books and returned to the lecture theatre . |
| 2 | I went down on my knees and edged towards the hole . |
| 3 | I tried to plead and argue but was only beaten for my pains and thrown down the steps back into my cell ; the dungeon door , grating shut , was locked securely behind us . |
| 4 | For a quiet life , I should now head straight to the welcoming arms and biscuit tin of Ms Topaz , to be lectured on the error of my ways and dispatched to the new homogenised spook pool for retraining . |
| 5 | We sat down , I on the arm-chair , he on the floor at my feet : He held one of my hands and played with the fingers . |
| 6 | ‘ Then he drew my face , my clothes and put on the colour . |
| 7 | In the end , Honor gritted her teeth and tapped on the door . |
| 8 | Thus by the mid-thirties the boundaries of the WEA 's sector of provision were becoming somewhat ragged margins as the other two better-funded and organised providers developed their policies and encroached into the territory of earlier voluntary endeavour . |
| 9 | At independence , the new governments had looked around for ways of publicizing their activities and seized upon the means to do so . |
| 10 | She screwed a pair of gold hoops into her earlobes , moistened her lips and pasted on the impersonal smile that had served her so well during her months on the catwalk . |
| 11 | Ruth lowered her eyes and clutched at the banister of the stairs . |
| 12 | She ran down the track as if the hounds of death were at her heels and struggled with the door of the jeep , snatched at the steering-wheel , fumbled with the ignition . |
| 13 | She rocked back on her heels and clutched at the bureau for support . |
| 14 | When she did this , Ariel hugged her knees and rocked on the ground beside her , singing to herself charms against the spells of Sycorax : her antidote to the old woman 's venom , her hopes for a different life far away from the ferocious spirit of her crooked mother . |
| 15 | Grace Bird , who had the smallest part in the play , that of Maud Mockridge the lady novelist , had still not memorised her lines and read from the script . |
| 16 | The pile of dazed teachers jumped to their feet and chased after the Bookman . |
| 17 | The punctured door was carried from its hinges and borne into the room . |
| 18 | In the epicentre of the maelstrom , with the moon at her feet and crowned with the stars was Maggie , surprisingly unmoved . |
| 19 | She rose gracefully to her feet and made for the front door , with Melissa following . |
| 20 | But even as she flung out a hand to save herself she was whisked off her feet and pulled into the secure haven of fitzAlan 's arms . |
| 21 | There were heated exchanges inside the GNA on April 22 , and a number of opposition deputies submitted their resignations and called for the GNA 's dissolution . |
| 22 | We join a wild circle-dance at the feet of the giggling teenaged bride , who — perched on a chair-is hoisted high on the shoulders of her guests and paraded through the crowd . |
| 23 | A day or two later she was to receive another surprise so far as animals were concerned when the ginger kitten , more adventurous than his brothers , found his way into the cabin where the Dalmatian was suckling her pups and joined in the free feast . |
| 24 | Following the creation of the National Heritage Memorial Fund , several outstanding houses have been saved with their contents and handed to the National Trust . |
| 25 | This latter option appears to have some attraction for Fforde , for in his conclusion he seems to agree with the Thatcherite premise that pre-1979 Conservatives , by accommodating themselves to collectivist reforms rather than reversing them , abandoned their principles and surrendered to the so-called ‘ ratchet ’ effect of creeping socialism . |
| 26 | Anna had also been arrested in her nightclothes and taken to the station . |
| 27 | These ‘ Zubatov unions ’ , so-called in honour of the police chief who sponsored them , tended to escape the control of their sponsors and contributed to the explosion of protest which shook the regime during 1905 . |
| 28 | He had never forgotten the outraged eloquence of the frustrated lady as she had hitched up her pants and departed towards the town . |
| 29 | The piggies blushed even pinker than usual as they were hoisted onto the shoulders of their friends and carried round the room . |
| 30 | Originally , in early Republican Rome , imperium meant that power exercised over individuals by officers of the state and that power was specific in its limits and granted by the people . |