Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The noise is formidable , for the rocks clatter and bang away down a steel chute that dumps them back on the ground . |
| 2 | Should n't be surprised if it drives me straight into the arms of the recruiting officer . |
| 3 | And the boyfriend -when the mother kicks them out of the home — the boyfriend says , " Uh-oh , she 's out on the street now , and pregnant . " |
| 4 | He grips my arms and dumps me back on the pew . |
| 5 | An Elf war fleet led by Tyrion defeats the Norse in a huge sea battle and drives them away from the coast of Ulthuan . |
| 6 | In the hit movie Withnall and I , the two visit Riggindale and it drives them almost to the brink of distraction . |
| 7 | The child finds the same letters on the eight cubes and places them correctly in the tray underneath the card . |
| 8 | I turn away so I ca n't look at her , but she leans over and looks me straight in the face . |
| 9 | He looks me straight in the eyes as he takes his hand from my glass . |
| 10 | Kellard looks me briefly in the eye . |
| 11 | bows you down to the ground , bows you weeping |
| 12 | So that covers you up till the Monday |
| 13 | THE HONEST old hired hand who has seen it all looks you unwaveringly in the eye . |
| 14 | Naomi looks her straight in the eye , and demands , in a stage-whisper , ‘ Is it anything … to do with … sex ? ’ |
| 15 | But his victory at Stoke on Saturday has him back at the top of the list . |
| 16 | ‘ He seems to hold David Howell , who 's still owed three weeks ' money , particularly responsible and wants him out of the club . |
| 17 | He shouts her out into the street for a harlot . |
| 18 | ‘ Or drops her off at the beach house . ’ |
| 19 | Drops her off at the hospital . ’ |
| 20 | The lady accompanies him back to the Alps , to wait and worry as he and his partner , Hansi Kirchner , set off up the virgin North Face of Versücherin . |
| 21 | He unfolds it there as the antithesis between sin and grace . |
| 22 | The little girl holds the caterpillar , plies it carefully from the twig to which it had moulded itself . |
| 23 | Simpson raises his hands in the air , United have got Andy Melville and Steve Foster at the far post , Simpson still delays taking the kick , now it comes in , he knocks it in to the far post , looking for Paul , Paul heads it back over the top — and they 've scored . |
| 24 | Paul heads it back over the top — and they 've scored , Oxford United have scored , it 's Andy Melville that has put the ball into the net , into injury time . |
| 25 | We are standing in that kitchen where I 've shared her meals and laughter , and she finishes drying the glass and places it carefully on the table . |
| 26 | A great formula has been known to appear to a scientist ready-made in a dream as though he were a Siberian shaman , but unlike the shaman he accepts it not on the authority of the dream but because afterwards it satisfies his most stringent tests . |
| 27 | After a while he opens his case , takes out a glass vial and holds it up to the light . |
| 28 | For example , Mr X gives property to Mr Z who holds it absolutely for the infant unmarried son of Mr X. That is a transfer of an asset and a settlement for the purposes of ss663 and 664 ( although the Revenue may not apply ss663 where the income is not paid to the infant ) . |
| 29 | A teenage girl gets on the bus , then , as if she 's just remembered , takes out a comic story magazine and holds it out of the window . |
| 30 | Then he knocks it up off the Road to about nine inches for a 4 . |