Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says being a little forgiving I could praps forgive them a little for us on the 1952 test , the first , but I ca n't forgive them for what they did to these other lads on the later tests , they must have known something from Nagasaki , Hiroshima and Bikini atoll tests . |
| 2 | It was good enough for them in the old days , and it will be good enough for them again , especially with THE woman out of the way . |
| 3 | Von Stein had fallen to his knees , and stared dazedly about him at the ruined lab . |
| 4 | This unique Number 4850158 has been selected especially for you in the latest by invitation-only Hospital Plan Cash Match Prize Draw . |
| 5 | A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour . |
| 6 | On the other hand , what Alcuin has to say must be set beside the respect accorded Aelfwald 's memory at Hexham where the king was buried ( ASC D , s.a. 788 ) , which shows that the community at Hexham thought highly of him in the twelfth century and probably earlier . |
| 7 | Only the line of grim cages among whose bars whined the winter wind , and above them the great plane trees that bent across the sky , their leafless branches bending in the wind like twisted hands that came down towards him from the angry sky . |
| 8 | I know no touch of consanguinity — No kin , no love , no blood , no soul so near me As the sweet Troilus . |
| 9 | Down behind him in the straggly little valley , I notice that a few allotments do remain , after all . |
| 10 | They found him under the yew tree and after a rather stormy scene , during which Bigwig grew rough and impatient , he was bullied rather than persuaded into going down with them into the great burrow . |
| 11 | A thousand windows , some reflecting the dying light of the day , stared down with him at the trampled earth , the lines of washing-poles , the puddles . |
| 12 | Francie grinned , and joined in with her after the first few phrases . |
| 13 | Undaunted , the young Scot chased after the opposition in one shoe and came in with them to the final take-over . |
| 14 | On Saturdays as a special treat Granpa would allow me to go along with him to the early morning market in Covent Garden , where he would select the fruit and vegetables that we would later sell from his pitch , just opposite Mr Salmon 's and Dunkley 's , the fish and chippy that stood next to the baker 's . |
| 15 | " … given to the Miller of Conistone for going along with me onto the fell 1s . " |
| 16 | A neighbour suggested I go along with her to the local WI and , despite my reservations , I had a wonderful time . |
| 17 | Jasper sensed some of this and vowed not to go along with it in the sheeplike fashion of the others . |
| 18 | I 've played along with you for the past hour . |
| 19 | These are now part of planning history , but it is live history : the issues are still very much with us in the 1980s , and there is no guarantee that the current resolution of them will prove sufficiently resilient to withstand the unpredictable changes in the context within which they operate . |
| 20 | The figures are left in the orange colour of the clay , the background painted in round them in the shiny black : a purely decorative variation ; and it has been plausibly suggested that the strange ‘ negative ’ idea was inspired by the custom of washing the background of marble reliefs with a blue or red against which the mainly white figures were left standing out . |
| 21 | And even as its sound struck the cage about him , there was a crash and a judder and the sky was falling in upon him from the darkening night . |
| 22 | The great , distinguished people of the world do not know that these beggars can in the pride of their souls , look down on them as the unfortunate ones , who are left on the shore for their worldly uses , but whose life ever misses the touch of the lover 's arms . ’ |
| 23 | A square of amber light shone down on them from the open hatch . |
| 24 | The sun seared down on us through the thin air , and when we slowed and turned our own cloud of dust enveloped us . |
| 25 | look down on you in the middle class ! |
| 26 | I have got in my diary that I 'm coming down to you on the twenty third of December ? |
| 27 | In London he sat beside Johnson in their various venues ; now he rode beside him in the post-chaise taking them up through eastern Scotland ; next he would canter along beside him to the Western Isles . |
| 28 | And , ’ he went on before she could interrupt , ‘ you ca n't deny you were all over me from the very beginning . |
| 29 | And if you despair of ever getting the baby 's pushchair anywhere near clean , or perhaps those muddy football and rugby boots , just spend five minutes or so on them with the Steamatic . |
| 30 | So are gilts , especially if you nip in to them before the next — perhaps imminent — interest rate cut . |