Example sentences of "[indef pn] [be] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Someone was watching them from the top of the stairs . |
2 | I must have dropped off to sleep ; next thing , someone was prodding me in the ribs with a rifle butt , and a voice was saying , ‘ Come on , Piper . |
3 | Someone was shaking him by the shoulder as the band played ‘ God Save the King ’ and everyone else in the cinema stood to attention . |
4 | He reminds them of the confidential nature of the case : nobody is to discuss it outside the room . |
5 | Indeed one might argue that talk of Jesus as our ‘ brother ’ , emphasizing his humanity , makes Jesus more intrusively male than if one were casting him in the role of the cosmic Christ . |
6 | No one is fighting her for the task of serving school dinners to the juniors . |
7 | Something is pushing them to the side of their own lives . ’ |
8 | But still the horses would n't budge : they were fixed as if something was holding them to the road . |
9 | We get people on the programme singing and dancing so badly it 's painful , but they come back the next week and tell us that everyone 's stopping them in the streets to congratulate them , not slag them off . ’ |
10 | The way I approach anything is to do it to the best of my ability , whatever . |