Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's the tail rotors that do the damage — and I 'd hate to spend my afternoon scraping you off the roof . ’ |
| 2 | And er I never remember er my parents painting anything in the house at all . |
| 3 | ‘ In the end , however , Torpedo stole the game from us despite my players running themselves into the ground . |
| 4 | I mean I did n't take a lot with me , I mean I took too much as it was and my arm carrying it across the Underground . |
| 5 | I have the impression that the novels of Phyllis Bottome are now little read , though I remember my mother borrowing them from the local library in Barnsley in the 1930s , and speaking of them with respect . |
| 6 | At last they were all free and she pushed the material impatiently aside , her fingers losing themselves in the gloriously thick mat of dark curling hair on his powerful chest . |
| 7 | The hands Maria had raised to Luke 's shoulders strayed eagerly to the back of his neck and up into the thickness of his dark hair , her fingers pressing themselves to the perfect shaping of his skull as she sought and claimed a deeper kiss , drawing him far into the warm moist depths of her mouth . |
| 8 | She laughed caustically , her eyes meeting his in the mirror of the pool , challenging him . |
| 9 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 10 | It had ended when he knocked her to the ground and slammed out of the room , hearing her laughter following him down the corridor . |
| 11 | This prevented her parents taking her from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend where she has been living . |
| 12 | They had always done their best to help Eva switch off during her breaks taking her to the Great Barrier Reef , Tropical Tablelands , coast , islands — wherever they could manage . |
| 13 | She remembered her friend saying something on the phone : ‘ It gets a bit rough ’ … something like that . |
| 14 | Amidst the noise of children shouting , women calling across the alley , and dogs barking , Sarah seemed to hear her father condemning her for the way she had behaved these last months , and her misery grew . |
| 15 | Two squads of Fists in full battle armour crowded the fore of the compartment , standing rigidly , gripping their boltguns and chainswords , the magnetics of their boots locking them to the cleated deck . |
| 16 | His grip tightened , his fingers burying themselves in the knot of hair at her nape . |
| 17 | Whereupon I fell about in my chair at this with an effective simulacrum of sycophancy , then matadored the old charm around in front of him for a few minutes , and before you could say fundador Walt was on his knees begging me for the coup de grâce . |
| 18 | Then he lay down on her , his weight sinking her in the bed as if in sand . |
| 19 | He picked the largest , his spear taking it through the gut . |
| 20 | This is the one where Paul recalls his parents telling him during the war not to worry during air raids , ‘ because it 's unlikely the bomb will ever have your name written on it , son ’ . |
| 21 | Taking her arm , he drew her to her feet , his body shielding her from the rest of the room . |
| 22 | One was a middle-aged man , rather corpulent , who sent a message into the depths behind his recess which finally produced an abashed female servant : and one was a spare man in young middle age who had his wife helping him in the shop . |
| 23 | For instance , yesterday he saw a funeral in a barge , fascinating — six women wrapped in coats in the boat , which the men were dragging along the canal through the heath , and the clergyman in his three-cornered hat and his breeches trailing them on the other side . |
| 24 | Surely any minute she would wake up and find Marc lying beside her , his arms holding her in the loving way of barely twelve hours ago ? |
| 25 | Even when you avert your eyes from his daily economic blunders , you 'll always find another sad aspect of his premiership slapping you in the face . |
| 26 | Fritzy , bleerk with Ministry , breaks his hand hitting someone in the same brawl . |
| 27 | no oh yes I should think he 's learnt his lesson putting it on the |
| 28 | Bob was wondering whether you got his letter thanking you for the book . |
| 29 | Adam sat on the bank among the bulrushes and the great , pale , leathery hosta leaves and looked at the house with its canopy of roses and honeysuckle , the martins ' nest under the eaves , the long terrace with Zeus in his various avatars and his loves disporting themselves along the flint wall . |
| 30 | The milky-eyed man was back on his feet , the zeal of his speech fetching him off the ground in little hops and leaps . |