Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told me that the previous year she had confided to an American friend in Rome that the two people who most fascinated her in the world were Albert Schweitzer and Herbert von Karajan ; and a year later she was sitting in an empty hall with Walter Legge , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , and Herbert von Karajan listening to a private recital on the organ by Albert Schweitzer . |
| 2 | Why , she wondered , when she had effectively let him off the hook ? |
| 3 | He threw off the blanket , picked up the limp girl and gently placed her on the mat in front of the blazing fire . |
| 4 | ‘ I have only seen her at the funeral . |
| 5 | His present celebrity is a fairly recent phenomenon , and he insists that it has not really affected him , although he acknowledges that his appearances on television shows and in magazine profiles have somewhat robbed him of the anonymity which still clings to his ‘ invisible ’ friend , Cartier-Bresson . |
| 6 | We 've argued for years about meals on wheel service that there should be seven day a week service throughout this authority , we 've only got it in the City , we want it throughout the authority . |
| 7 | It was a thoroughly tested number as Tiller had not only shown it at the Palace but his La Scala Girls had also performed it at the Winter Gardens Pavilion , Blackpool , the previous year . |
| 8 | At journey 's end she folded over the top of the bag and thoughtfully replaced it behind the netting on the back of the seat in front . |
| 9 | The mess steward came in with Woolley 's piano-accordion and gently laid it on the table . |
| 10 | Or probably , since you ca n't trust anybody any more , you 'd better put it through the letter box . ’ |
| 11 | But then you thought you 'd better put it in the fridge ? |
| 12 | ‘ I still ca n't work out how they got away with it because I 'd only left it outside the tent for a few moments before it vanished . |
| 13 | Somebody had obviously left it in the cubicle . |
| 14 | Eliot had apparently declined it on the plea that it was Lent . |
| 15 | She had rarely seen him outside the context of the family . |
| 16 | Hurley had not forgiven him for the loss of Syrian George , and he was still under heavy pressure from Washington to show results , but in general Coleman made sure they got along for the sake of his back-channel reports to MC/10 Control . |
| 17 | The bonus is combined with your normal pension payment for the first week in December , so if you have not received it by the end of that month ask at your local Social Security office . |
| 18 | His mother had not joined them for the meal , bowing in this regard to the T'ang 's wishes . |
| 19 | Paul had not recognized him in the porter 's uniform . |
| 20 | I have just heard it on the news . ’ |
| 21 | Although she had not realised it at the time , looking back she could see that her life at Mrs White 's had been quite lonely . |
| 22 | I would gladly have accepted the post of manager even if I had not won it in the club raffle . |
| 23 | That old bugger Grunte had not included him in the invitation to dine at some poncy joint called La Noblesse , the smartest part of the Hospitality Inn . |
| 24 | I assumed he 'd just picked you for the resemblance . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Then since you accept what I say , madam — ’ interposed the cardinal with a sense of timing that suggested the protector had not nominated him for the task solely on account of his venerability ‘ — might I urge you to give the prince into my custody ! ’ |
| 26 | We have already considered it in the context of stress and frustration ( ie. conflict between the individual and his environment ) and role theory ( ie. inter-personal conflict within the individual ) . |
| 27 | She was gabbling , her voice breathy and barely under control , because she 'd raised her eyes to his face only to find the expression there more disturbing than the casual masculine pose he 'd adopted , and which had already reminded her of the night she 'd spent in his bed . |
| 28 | Well he 's probably just caught him on the back of on the back of the calf but er I thought it was as you say I thought it was a nice sharp incisive tackle . |
| 29 | I wanted to tell her this was n't quite true , that I had had no choice , but her grey , tired look stopped me : it would hurt her too much , I thought , to feel I had not trusted her with the truth in the beginning . |
| 30 | ‘ I have not stabbed you in the back , dammit ! |