Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did you let me read about it in the papers ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I asked for it at the suggestion of my cousin Sarah , who was slightly older than me and whom I greatly admired . |
| 4 | Then I asked of him concerning the suffering . |
| 5 | So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write . |
| 6 | I read about it in the paper today |
| 7 | Or the poster I produced for you of the doves of peace made with human hands . |
| 8 | You were on a raised platform and I passed before you in the parade . " |
| 9 | I rode with them in the cab ( we tossed the oneliners back and forth ) — to our destination . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I peered at them round the end of the house . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Yes , I have n't brought the modular things I mentioned to you on the phone the other day but I think it would be very useful to sit down and look at structuring that |
| 14 | I stopped beside him as the other three went on ahead . |
| 15 | I came over it below the farmhouse and hugged the side wall like I 've seen them do in the movies until I could peer round into the farmyard . |
| 16 | With distant astonishment at her own efficiency , she heard her voice saying very clearly and reasonably : ‘ I do beg your pardon , but I came to you as the nearest house . |
| 17 | I did n't know and I hid from them in the semantics lab when they came to shrink me , and I sold myself to someone who did n't know how to do it . |
| 18 | Then I forgot about it as the carrots boiled over . |
| 19 | Seve finished second to Johnny Miller and after that I caddied for him until the end of 1979 . |
| 20 | I skipped after her down the street . |
| 21 | I rushed with him into the buildings and found what I expected and dreaded ; a small calf kicking at its stomach , getting up and down , occasionally rolling on its straw bed . |
| 22 | One of them came to see me , and as I walked towards him across the table , he put on his glasses . |
| 23 | I walked towards him on the stony track |
| 24 | I belonged to them in the sense that when I was interested in something I tried to understand it as far as possible and , of course , even tried to make use of it . |
| 25 | As I indicated to you on the phone on Friday , I believe it is appropriate that I formally review the position of the sale of your company following receipt of the indicative offers . |
| 26 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 27 | As to the other , I heard about you from the other side as well , did n't I ? |
| 28 | Well she she told me that your M E type symptoms had got a lot worse and I said that 's we had at That 's what I chatted with her about the other day but |
| 29 | I flew with her into the bush , to land on a tiny crushed-pumice airstrip laid along a mountain ridge . |
| 30 | I warned against it at the time , telling investors not to touch it with a bargepole . |