Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chirk , trying to retain a hint of character despite the volume of traffic that passes through it on the A5 , came and went , then , across the River Ceiriog and out of Wales into England . |
| 2 | Take a blank sheet of paper and write down everything that occurs to you about the word(s) you have chosen , giving yourself about ten minutes . |
| 3 | So nothing that happens to you in the course of your life can possibly change your genes , because they 've already been copied . |
| 4 | The rare gases take very little part in life 's processes ; and we need not discuss water vapour at too great length , even though many desert animals and plants , and some epiphytes ( plants that grow on the surface of other plants ) derive much or most of their water from water that floats to them on the air . |
| 5 | The draft is still officially secret , but church sources said that leaks about it in the Italian press were generally correct . |
| 6 | The wasted life and the wasted love that comes to me in the night and makes me cry out in pain . ’ |
| 7 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 8 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 9 | He seizes him and disposes of him in the river like the previous three bodies , and finally gets his pay , the wife being all the more glad for having got rid of her repugnant husband . |
| 10 | The fly , which has settled on my forehead and reads to me from the Sixth Book of the Aeneid , is the same fly which buzzes round the head of Virgil in Mantua . |
| 11 | In this way we acclimatised them to the sights , sounds and smells around them in the barn . |
| 12 | The owner says he will sell at that price , but only if Fred collects the car and pays for it within the next 2 hours . |
| 13 | His son , Guillaume de Sescas , esquire ( douzet ) recognized that he was a liegeman and military tenant of Albret in July 1309 , holding land and tithes from him in the Bazadais , and owing him service , counsel and loyalty in perpetuity . |
| 14 | ‘ Stephen 's determined to open a hotel chain and listens to me about the same amount . ’ |
| 15 | Lamech takes two wives , and boasts to them of the murder he has committed , outdoing Cain . |
| 16 | Certainly my own identikit picture of the classic nasty old git a Tory faces is about 68 , wears a string vest and the trousers of an old suit , bears remnants of a tattoo on one shoulder and comes at you from the door of a council house with an unkempt garden in Mansfield , waving a stick and blaspheming mightily . |
| 17 | In the human home , the tame cat retains its infant vocalizations right through into adulthood and improves on them in the process . |