Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [adv] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child finds the same letters on the eight cubes and places them correctly in the tray underneath the card . |
| 2 | I turn away so I ca n't look at her , but she leans over and looks me straight in the face . |
| 3 | Kellard looks me briefly in the eye . |
| 4 | THE HONEST old hired hand who has seen it all looks you unwaveringly in the eye . |
| 5 | Naomi looks her straight in the eye , and demands , in a stage-whisper , ‘ Is it anything … to do with … sex ? ’ |
| 6 | Love is a strange force like gravity that holds us together in the transcendent and will suffer no parting . |
| 7 | The larger Diocesan pilgrimage joins us later in the week . |
| 8 | She comes back across the room , punches me playfully in the chest , then flops on to the sofa . |
| 9 | He brandishes it wildly in the air , telling everyone they are safe now . |
| 10 | What happens if , as you move in close to grab his arm , he suddenly kicks you hard in the groin , and then stabs you as you double over in agony ? |
| 11 | But no doubt we can return to these matters if the honourable gentleman raises them further in the course of the debate . |
| 12 | Though there appears to be no evidence to support Husameddin " s assertion that Molla Fenari actually went in company with Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey , the fact that the former dedicated his commentary on the to the latter and praises him fulsomely in the preface suggests a close connection between the two and is a further indication that it was during Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey 's rule ( 1402–19 , 1421–3 ) that Molla Fenari 's sojourn in Karaman occurred . |
| 13 | ( He resumes pacing , then , spinning on his heels to avoid the wall , he veers round , stares you straight in the face , hands flared , fingers spread frozen in time and space , chin tucked in on itself like a gossiping neighbour , takes another deep breath through the nose , opens his mouth , swivels his eyes to left and right and walks clean out of the room . |
| 14 | I am greatly touched that she thinks of me and remembers me even in the state of forgetfulness of human affairs in which she now finds herself . |
| 15 | For all its dream-like episodes it locates you firmly in the village of Macondo in the jungles of Colombia through a century of dramatic development . |
| 16 | He waited until the surface of the water in the bath became quite still , like a pool , like a swimming pool before the very first swimmer enters it early in the morning , and then with one quick move climbed in and lay right under the water with his eyes closed . |
| 17 | All this contrasts sharply with the flimsy world of divination , of Madame Sosostris , which lands us unsurprisingly in the heart of London as we hear how all this ‘ fiddle ’ will always be found ‘ When there is distress of nations and perplexity/ Whether on the shores of Asia , or in the Edgware Road ’ . |
| 18 | With scissoring movements of her legs and mandibles , she converts the pellet into a long glistening strip of clay and lays it carefully in a ring . |
| 19 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 20 | In an entire lunch-hour , those same members may produce only half a dozen verbal transactions between them , yet a multitude of non-verbal signals binds them together in a group . |
| 21 | But Leonskaja 's big technique serves her well in the Scherzo and finale , which come over with more spontaneity , and , in the finale , there is a pleasing warmth in the lyrical second melody at 1′20″ . |
| 22 | That , you know , th that puts it more in the context , does n't it . |
| 23 | And the third servant says Well no if I if I go out and buy something something might go wrong and I 'll lose the talent , and so he hides it away in the drawer . |
| 24 | You go into a café where the sight and smell of freshly baked Danish pastries hits you squarely in the face as you walk through the door . |
| 25 | " That makes it easier in a way , but I do n't know if it 's your job or ours . " |
| 26 | But it is not only through his healings and exorcisms that Jesus shows himself as the bearer of the Spirit : he claims it explicitly in the controversy with the scribes about Beelzebub ( apparently another name for Satan , conceived of as ‘ lord of the house ’ ) . |