Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Prince Hal is never a roaring boy : he sits hunched or sprawled , with dark unwinking eyes : he hopes to be amused by his bully companions , but the eyes constantly muse beyond them into the time when he must steady himself for the crown . |
| 2 | We 'll be previewing the new speedway season , there 's a look at the greyhound news and a round up of all the local leagues , so stay with us for the next hour . |
| 3 | If you are successful there will be much work for you in the future . ’ |
| 4 | Johnson found little support among them for the reformist policies of the government of the day . |
| 5 | That makes me a bit peeved , you know : we can serve them , but not mingle with them on the other side . |
| 6 | The researchers meet the guests first , and generally look after them from the time they arrive to the time they leave . |
| 7 | I mostly just look at mine from the window ; I 've got to know the walnut tree over a whole year now . |
| 8 | Yes you normally pay for it in the following year . |
| 9 | They must therefore retain the property to which an infant is entitled till he attains full age , and meanwhile deal with it under the directions of the will or settlement or under the orders of the court . |
| 10 | People thus switch between them as the balance of advantage changes . |
| 11 | ‘ Just think of me as the Ghost of Cameron Yet to Come … ’ |
| 12 | And if I speak a bit plain … just think of me as the woman who gave up everything to save you girls from their worst dangers Dear sisters there is not one of us ladies … who wo n't tell you that we have learnt our most precious lessons of faith … and patience , and self-sacrifice and contentedness under trials from you . |
| 13 | ‘ People always talk to us about The Doors . |
| 14 | Pound 's disparagement of Milton , for instance , was , I am convinced , most salutary twenty and thirty years ago ; I still agree with him against the academic admirers of Milton ; though to me it seems that the situation has changed . |
| 15 | I always think of it as the engine-room of the house . |
| 16 | But surely there should have been more help for him at the beginning , when he first found out he carried the virus . |
| 17 | And it 's erm it 's so oppressive and we really worry about it with the children . |
| 18 | Oh , this , this is a very important book of course and one of the , one of the astonishing things is the way totally ignored and if you look through even people who write about psychoanalyses and the social sciences and there 's a lot of them , this book is hardly ever mentioned and I , I normally nowadays routinely look for it in the , in the references and index an and many books th that purport to talk about groups and sociology is never mentioned I think , and those that do do n't ever seem to understand what it says . |
| 19 | When little Nell enters the labourer 's hut , we supposedly look around it with the eyes of the child . |
| 20 | If anyone would like to share their story with other readers , whether it 's happy , sad , amusing or just a bit out of the ordinary , then please write to us at the usual address . |
| 21 | Put any combination of any soft fruits you like into the rumtopf and cover each layer with rum or brandy , so that the fruit is thoroughly soaked , and then forget about it until the winter . |
| 22 | Take Nosey and the spare horse , then wait for me at the crossroads . |
| 23 | ‘ Or at least look at it in the winter , ’ said Sophia . |
| 24 | Anyway you then look through it with the solution in and you 'll find that if , for example , you started off with it completely dark you 'll find it 's then grey cos the plane of light 's been rotated , now it 's where there was no light getting through now some of it is actually getting through , cos it 's been rotated . |
| 25 | ‘ Men sometimes whistle at me in the street and it does n't bother me a bit . |
| 26 | He would lead me through small flocks of goats , or to where the traffic was worst , and then briefly hide from me in the narrow alley-ways or the open shops . |
| 27 | But what could be worthier of my human intelligence than to discriminate between and interrelate the parts of a painting or musical composition with the concentration of a mathematician solving a problem , yet respond to them with the immediacy of a dog pricking up its ears ? |
| 28 | Christians , they complain , should refrain from criticism , and instead join with them for the good of each other and mankind in general . |
| 29 | ‘ They were on the look-out for a female DJ so everyone was very up for me from the word go . |