Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Morse and Lewis stood , rather warily , beside the car as Downes began to fiddle ( once more ) with a hearing-aid one which looked to them suspiciously like the model that had earlier given rise to such piercing oscillation . |
| 2 | Make the mix fairly dry and press it well down into the joints , filling them right to the top and finishing them flush . |
| 3 | The scheme certainly helped me right at the beginning when I was starting up as a criminal lawyer . |
| 4 | ‘ You will land me right in the shit if you do n't fill this up . |
| 5 | Why , once he looked me right in the face and sneered . |
| 6 | It was a bad one for me right from the start when I got involved in the spinning at the first corner . ’ |
| 7 | So when you eyeball someone and arrange to eyeball them over the C.B. you do not meet them somewhere like your house because you do n't want anyone who might be listening to turn up at your house so you meet them somewhere like the park or somewhere like that and then take them to your house if you wish . |
| 8 | Marie says it 's to keep the noise in , but I do n't reckon it works too well , cos you can hear them all over the house when they practise . |
| 9 | I would hang them all round the school and you 'd all get stuck to them and that would be the end of it . |
| 10 | Saturday , 13th : Arrived at Delhi airport over two hours late , at 06.30. met me personally at the barrier and eased me through the arrival formalities . |
| 11 | One of my bigger irritations is when I have an enormously tight schedule taking me all over the country and I get calls — sometimes on my mobile phone when I 'm stuck in the middle of a field somewhere — insisting that it 's vitally important I attend a meeting that has just been scheduled for three o'clock that afternoon in London , which could easily have been planned at least two weeks earlier . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've just been tellin' you how Mr Winterburn chased me all over the house when 'is fam'ly was at church one Sunday . |
| 13 | I respect that , I do n't expect her to follow me all over the place and be knitting until the show has finished . |
| 14 | While she is away feeding they take the strange kittens and rub them gently in the bedding that carries the female 's scent . |
| 15 | However , the evidence of the fireman who was on the footplate of the engine that was hauling the express disproved the allegations of the railway company , for he had seen them together on the train after it had arrived at Birmingham New Street Station around 2.30 when the children had waved at him . |
| 16 | Get a claim form from your council and return it to them together with the receipt or bill . |
| 17 | Add the softened butter and stir well , then place in a serving dish with the sauce and toss them together with the parsley and seasonings until all the ingredients are well mixed . |
| 18 | We all use them much of the time and could not do without them . |
| 19 | She shakes me gently by the hand and announces quietly , ‘ I 've just got out of the bath . ’ |
| 20 | That 's right yes I spoke to someone yesterday on the phone and they said to pop it in , since I lived so close . |
| 21 | And while we 're at the police station I suggest that you have a word with someone there about the fact that you seem to be attracting some unwelcome attention . |
| 22 | If you remember , Hawick said — and he 's not silly — that there was someone else on the scene when he first asked her out . |
| 23 | ‘ Drop in when you 're passing ’ , they say , but nothing but humiliation faces those who do , and see someone else at the desk that was once their 's and find everyone too busy to chat . |
| 24 | Joe Jordan , a spokesman for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists , says women should not allow doctors to carry out such examinations unless there is someone else in the room or close by — normally a nurse , relative or friend . |
| 25 | A member of the circle will babysit for you and , in exchange , you 'll babysit for someone else in the circle while your partner stays at home with your own children . |
| 26 | As soon as the chicks are mobile , she leads them away from the nest and down to the shore . |
| 27 | It has been found that taking them away from the contamination and giving them a healthy diet for a month can boost their damaged immune systems for up to 18 months . |
| 28 | Could you still touch them if you 've pulled them away from the mains and everything ? |
| 29 | So get them away from the mains and then what do you do ? |
| 30 | right cos then you 're taking them away from the fact that you want other quotes right , they 'll say to you oh we were n't thinking of doing it actually until the winter , right and then you can say to them well let me just say that by placing your order in now we can put your installation in hand , right , basically at today 's prices , right , on an extended delivery , right , and you can still qualify for a special offer , right |