Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fingers were long , unnaturally thin , the skin on them so clear it seemed he could see right through them to the bone itself . |
| 2 | He chatted on about them for the rest of the journey , as she had hoped he would , and she learnt that they could n't be better looked after . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't imagine you can take it out on me because things have not gone right for you at the party . |
| 4 | They were stars of the hard left , but we have heard little about them during the election struggle . |
| 5 | Mrs Denham refused his offer , and tucked the baby under one arm , and started to drag the blanket she had been sitting on after her into the house . |
| 6 | Wilcox waited impatiently for her at the bottom of the final staircase . |
| 7 | I did write it down for her in the list . |
| 8 | You wo n't find the answer written down for you in the bowl of a compass — I can tell you that . |
| 9 | Smart Drive going in , the new Smart Drive p p presumably it will put my mouse driv my new mouse driver in for me for the day when I want one ? |
| 10 | ‘ I was shocked when Scot Gemmill was brought in for me at the start of last season because it came out of the blue . |
| 11 | And I 'll volunteer suggested in for me in the paper as a criterion that it also ideally should in my opinion have a the potential for railway connection given the thrust of policy a decade two decades ahead of us . |
| 12 | I 'm actually going to go in for it in the Telegraph 's competition , so I may as well use the same team for our one if it gets going . |
| 13 | see Exod. 14 : 28 , ‘ And the waters returned , and covered the chariots , and the horsemen , even all the host of Pharaoh that went in after them into the sea ; there remained not so much as one of them ’ . |
| 14 | There was once in the olden days a giant who lived on Penhill who had all below him in the dale in his thrall . |
| 15 | And think better of me in the future ! ’ |
| 16 | Now he came into the dining-room where I was working and sat down opposite me at the table . |
| 17 | She sat down opposite him at the kitchen table and fixed him with the kind of look that usually preceded a full eighteen-round contest . |
| 18 | As he did this a Maltese feller started striding slowly but purposefully towards us from the back of the club . |
| 19 | Looking down below them from the top , they saw that a small crater with the remains of a dried-up lake in it was emitting sulphurous vapours from several points . |
| 20 | He 's come round to both our Joe and our Tamar and , heaven knows , he was bitter enough against them at the start . ’ |
| 21 | He trailed along behind her through the sand dunes , along the edge of the tidal salt marsh . |
| 22 | There are billions of galaxies much like it in the Universe . |
| 23 | She could cope well enough with him in the office where their point of contact was work , but occasional moments — like last Saturday , sitting in the sunshine in the garden of her flat , and today on the train — had shown her a glimpse of Luke the man , not simply Luke the employer . |
| 24 | ‘ No , I 'll keep her down with me for the night . ’ |
| 25 | His ship was turned into a minesweeper in the war , and he went down with her off the east coast . |
| 26 | He nodded , and reaching out for her hand , he led her through into the sitting-room and sat down with her on the settee opposite the picture . |
| 27 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 28 | He had pulled her down with him into the whirlpool of love , and now that she was submerged and drowning he had left her , escaping through the cloaking mist that hung over the water . |
| 29 | He looked up at her and smiled and she lay down with him on the grass in the sun . |
| 30 | Fergus had motioned him to sit down with him behind the hide , and to keep quiet . |