Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pron] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wife used to wait for somebody coming in the shop to buy something and then she 'd go out and get a a bit of meat and we 'd have a dinner , and er we had seven months of that before I was eventually more or less forced to go back . |
| 2 | The place I got , I used to hate going to bed — it was so damp , I had to listen to it dripping off the curtains . |
| 3 | Modern Parasitology is an uneven book and needs a standard text to go with it according to the editor , T. E. G. Cox . |
| 4 | Those two had a photo to watch for you coming off the plane — which means you must have been followed to Helsinki Airport . |
| 5 | And now to think of him listening to the rhapsody of such another youngster as this Merbury , besotted as they all were on their paragon , Hotspur ! |
| 6 | For any given latitude the Pole star has effectively a constant altitude and the other stars Appear to revolve around it owing to the Earth 's diurnal rotation . |