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

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1 Local folklore has it that in prehistoric times men drove wild cattle to their deaths over Combe Scar and ate them where they fell at the foot of the crag ( cattle bones are reputed to have been found there ) .
2 Notice that it is customary to indicate the parameters best varied to achieve balance by drawing an arrow through them where they appear in the double balance equations , as done here .
3 The Men came for me where I huddled in the marram grass and they took me back to the low cage .
4 They ate less and less , never venturing outside the villa , the physical aspect of their relationship consuming them both as Damian began to take her beyond her new-found sensuality , smashing barriers as he went , teaching her everything about her body and his until she thrilled to the power of knowing how to touch and kiss him to make him breathless with ecstasy , whispering incoherent , urgent words of encouragement to her until they both fell into their usual sleep of pleasurable exhaustion , completely united by the passion that raged just as highly between them now as it ever had from the very beginning .
5 Sure enough , Jo leaned over to the driver 's window and said something to someone before she ran up the steps to the house .
6 I have to I h I when I get to the office , I 'll h I 'll h I 'll have a look a bit closer .
7 I must admit when I when I came in the door there the first thing I noticed was the peat smell .
8 Cos I er , I when I went to the door in our and Bunny and er , it was n't it was an elder gentleman says , ah !
9 He drew her against him , linking her arm in his as they walked along the track .
10 Their clothes were an abrasive barrier between them , and her hands were as urgent as his as she peeled off the same black dress she seemed to have been wearing for the past century .
11 It had seemed to him that her eyes looked right into his as he stood in the darkened hall , staring into the room .
12 So do we phone them once we get to the hotel or do they contact us ?
13 Therefore we can not make syntactic sense of which until we get to the end of the sentence .
14 And when , after lunch , she came downstairs in her new outfit , bought from Selfridge 's last week with the money which J. D. O'Connor had paid her for her articles , and with her next two articles in her bag , ready to be handed in to the great man himself before she returned to the rectory to pick up Rose Bailey , whose time off did not begin until four-thirty , both Dr Neil and Matey thought that she looked enchanting .
15 A man who receives an electric shock does not ask himself whether he believes in the form of energy known as electricity .
16 Marry , so there have been diverse good plots devised and wise counsels cast already about reformation of that realm , but they say it is the fatal destiny of that land that no purposes whatsoever are meant for her good will prosper or take good effect , which whether it proceed from the very genius of the soil , or the influence of the stars , or that Almighty God hath not yet appointed the time of her reformation , or that He reserveth her in this unquiet state still , for some secret scourge which shall by her come unto England , it is hard to be known but yet much to be feared .
17 The lavish reception afforded to Fidel Castro himself when he went to the Soviet Union the following year is well known , and it was during this visit that he was guaranteed economic concessions , notably a rise in the price paid for Cuban sugar .
18 I see ( and Summerchild sees ) the young provincial historian becoming even more silent and preoccupied than Summerchild himself as they look at the worn carpets and unoccupied chairs .
19 " And now I suppose it 'll be my fault the heating has n't got better immediately , " he muttered to himself as he walked along the narrow passageway .
20 He said it aloud to himself as he trudged up the stairs .
21 Denis smiled to himself as he thought of the jingle going the rounds :
22 Sacked three times from the county football manager post , McEniff can be forgiven the odd pinch of himself as he takes in the widespread adulation accorded to him now everywhere he goes .
23 " We 'll get it right now though , " he said to himself as he ascended through the castle 's twisted interior , and the light faded and the cold grew more sharp , and he gathered his furs more closely around him .
24 Fred sighed to himself as he looked at the rest of the meat lying on the chopping block and at the pile of dough still to be rolled out .
25 It occurred to me that as I had met nobody as I walked through the gate and went upstairs , there was no need to encounter anyone now , going down , and I moved my chair from the window .
26 I 'm not that bad but Stuart can beat me if he gets in the cooking mood , .
27 ‘ No , Joe Steer was with me until we got to the corner of Bal Lane , then he cut through to the terraces . ’
28 Nothing happened to me until I got off the Moon .
29 It would be a dim prospect for them if we returned to the policies of the Labour party .
30 If you start with small frogs , make sure the fish are too small to eat them if they fall into the water .
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