Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A had no proprietary interest in the farm but had transmitted earlier offers for it to the bank who were trustees of it . |
| 2 | What 's the midwife 's job when she cares for you after the birth ? |
| 3 | • Your complexion deserves make-up which not only improves its appearance but also cares for it throughout the day , so RoC 's foundations are designed to do just that . |
| 4 | Just to be told what 's going on , what 's in the packet , what the future holds for us in the food game . |
| 5 | She sincerely believes that her grandmother looks after her in the spirit world . |
| 6 | It has been said that the surety 's obligation is simply that of paying money and , of course , in a sense that is true if one looks only at the remedy which the landlord has against him in the event of default by the tenant . |
| 7 | God lives in you by the power of his spirit and he will guide you into truth , life and peace . |
| 8 | That 's all that matters to me at the moment . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ This is my favourite place , ’ Jeremy shouts to her above the music , ‘ fantastic girls here , really alive and witty . |
| 10 | It looks to me on the plan , |
| 11 | At the exalted level of Olympic competition that might be true , although I find it hard to attribute the concept of ‘ needing ’ to Carl Lewis , who , and no doubt I am being unfair , always looks to me like the lead actor in a Disney film entitled The Fastest Kid on Earth . |
| 12 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 13 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 14 | However , the individualistic approach of modern Darwinism which looks at it from the point of view of the reproductive success of individual genes , is n't like the older group selectionistic thinking was , prejudiced in favour of any group . |
| 15 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In two modern cases , however , it has been held that so long as the donor has done all he needs to do , the beneficial interest passes from him to the donee . |
| 19 | ‘ What happens to them in the wood ? ’ |
| 20 | Everything nice happens to me in the autumn . |
| 21 | So nothing that happens to you in the course of your life can possibly change your genes , because they 've already been copied . |
| 22 | If one accepts such a theory , then it gives a reason to all that happens to us during the course of our lives . |
| 23 | I got , do n't know if they stop doing it altogether now , I really do n't know what erm , you see , I 've got an old one , but it says on it on the voucher it 's not trans none transferable . |
| 24 | She lied to her father on the day of her escape when Lancelot says to her of the escape — Act 2 , Scene 5 , line 39–41 : |
| 25 | It deals with pains like appendicitis , coley cystitis , which is inflammation of the gall bladder — about nine different diseases — and it merely says to you at the end of the operation based on the last five or six hundred patients I 've seen , the probability of this patient having appendicitis is ninety per cent , the probability of something else being ten per cent . |
| 26 | In my experience the smart rejoinder to a put down usually occurs to me on the bus on the way home , but at least some of my guests were quick thinking enough to exact their revenge … |
| 27 | Thus when carnal and financial imagery in the tale finally merge in the puns taille and taillynge at the very end , it is an emblem of how much deeper the " " bretherhede " " and " " cosynage " " runs that the monk and the merchant imagine exists between them in the form of play , or as a polite figure of speech , and how concrete it is . |
| 28 | Now write as much as you can about Auntie the sort of person she was , what members of her family thought of her , what her niece realises about her at the end . |
| 29 | A field which wishes to attempt to ensure that some offers are made in combination with one or more other fields sees to it at the beginning of the cycle that ‘ reserved offers ’ are set aside . |
| 30 | 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 . |