Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I 've been drinking tea with a Sherpa friend of mine in the village of Kundy and there 'll be a clatter up the stairs caused by a dozen people saying ‘ We understand Hillary 's here ’ , as if that gives them the right to charge in and take over . ’ |
| 2 | Those who had known Michael Holly at his home in the south-east of England , or had shared office and canteen space with him at the factory on the Kent fringes of London , might not now have recognized their man . |
| 3 | He watched his dejected figure walk past him into the cottage and , after allowing a few minutes to elapse , followed him in and discovered him sitting at the table in the living room , his bag of apples and sandwich lying untouched . |
| 4 | Fast-paced action adventure with you at the centre of some staggering cinematic effects . |
| 5 | Had Canada won against the Swedes , Australia would then have had a home tie against them with the chance to recoup some of their financial losses in Cyprus , coupled with the incentive of knowing that further success would probably earn them a home match with the United States in the semi-finals . |
| 6 | Lacking any financial acumen , he ran into difficulties with the Inland Revenue which filed a bankruptcy petition against him for the unpaid tax on his ring earnings : the order was for over £17 000 . |
| 7 | This , however , was denied by Kravchuk on March 19 , and at the Kiev summit he denied Yeltsin 's claims of a telephone conversation between them over the issue on March 16 . |
| 8 | The stainless steel hip-flask is perfect for taking a little home comfort with you into the great outdoors . |
| 9 | Later , he showed her around and told her in detail the things that needed doing to the house , and she imagined her father here , sliding down the banisters or across the ballroom floor , and she felt a sentimental attachment to the place creep over her like the muffling fog . |
| 10 | This prompted him to contact a business acquaintance of his in the Shetlands who kindly offered to enquire about DZ642 . |
| 11 | Yesterday , The Scotsman revealed that the proposal has prompted an extraordinary court action against it by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh , Norman Irons , and the Sheriff Principal of Lothian and Borders , Gordon Nicholson . |
| 12 | Then she pulled the biscuit tin towards her across the table , yanked off the lid . |
| 13 | In addition , Iraq viewed Kuwait as having gradually eaten away patches of Iraqi territory in the border area between them over the years and also as draining reserves from part of Iraq 's South Rumailah oilfield which straddled the frontier . |
| 14 | ‘ Or maybe you 'd prefer to be invigorated by another stalemate argument with me on the subject . ’ |
| 15 | Beruna glared as he walked past to join Okawi , her hands full of seal blubber , a bone knife beside her on the sand . |
| 16 | Some forty former pupils attended a farewell lunch for her over the gaudy weekend . |
| 17 | ( If anyone wants to see prescience in its purest form , they might read quotations from Woodcock 's writing in my obituary article about him in the Dictionary of National Biography . ) |
| 18 | A fast moving , rapid action arcade adventure with you as the jet-pack propelled hero on your way to meet one of the most fiendish Insects known to man . |
| 19 | And I oh I fought hard I never wanted a baby to be born in the wok house cos the word workhouse to me in the old it was a terrible name . |
| 20 | THE Queen is so delighted with a bronze statuette of her at the Trooping the Colour by amateur sculptor Bob White , of Leeds , that she has asked to keep it . |
| 21 | Yours sincerely , ( Prof. ) Richard von Krafft-Ebing girl is obviously fairly intelligent , and so will find it hard to find a man worthy of her among the servant classes ; and how will she meet anyone else ? |
| 22 | It seemed that he came to associate his love affair with me with the one Meaulnes had with Valentine — and Meaulnes 's resultant guilt and loss of purity . |
| 23 | it was , I just caught the tail end of it on the news , on the |
| 24 | Mistakenly , he had agreed to let Brompton-Smiley travel with him in the Rolls and discuss the matter of some urgency he had been whining about for the last two days . |
| 25 | Erm she 's doing numeracy power with them at the moment before she gets on to the because I believe she 's got to sort out some programs for as yet . |
| 26 | He sat up immediately on his cot , feeling a surge of pleasurable anticipation course through him at the prospect of one more day stalking the great game animals of southern Asia through the beautiful tropical forest where he now felt almost at home . |
| 27 | Luke rolled her back on the bed , their mouths still hungrily joined together , and she could feel his hand search behind her for the zip of her dress . |
| 28 | As he began to speak a young boy ran straight through a plate glass window behind us at the back of the church . |
| 29 | Soon she saw a little glass box near her on the floor . |
| 30 | There was a gallery here on the west side of the house and there is an oil painting of it in the house . |