Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hours of bending and stretching and twisting down on the prom in singlets and shorts while the wind whipped over us from the wintry sea . |
| 2 | ‘ I have n't any serious plans to marry him , if that 's what you 're asking , ’ she told him as levelly as she could , and had the hardest work in the world in hanging on to her temper when his glance flicked from her through the open door into her sitting-room . |
| 3 | As one wag said to me at the time , ‘ Only R is different ’ . |
| 4 | The voice could then be raised until the instrument responded to it above the level of the background noise . |
| 5 | His mouth closed over hers with the passion and glory she knew would never die and she melted into his impassioned embrace with a heart that was free to be his at last . |
| 6 | Sometimes the dark arch of a crumbling doorway loomed past them in the gloom . |
| 7 | Simon 's big head and loose mouth loomed above him against the ridiculous English summer sky , which was the color of iron . |
| 8 | A wild , violent delight that had intolerable hunger as its other side spasmed through her as the deep , slow throb low down in her slender body became a pounding , yearning ache that must be soothed , or she thought she would die . |
| 9 | To miss out on the opportunity afforded to us by the Chancellor of the Exchequer is to deny those in the greatest housing need the opportunity to get decent low cost housing . |
| 10 | At the same time , the sound of distant gunfire , explosions and shouting came to him on the night breeze , somewhere off his right and muffled by the intervening trees . |
| 11 | The sun crept towards me over the red tiles . |
| 12 | She closed her eyes as the memory rushed back vividly into her mind again , and a feeling of panic rose through her at the thought that a fierce spark of that madness might be living on within her as she approached the middle of her life . |
| 13 | Agassi 's coach came to me with the rackets . |
| 14 | She was not surprised when the girl turned to her with the dark remark , ‘ I wish he had n't come in just then . ’ |
| 15 | The boy walked beside him from the Post Office to Lipton 's , talking about the secret that was safe between them , pursuing him into the shop itself . |
| 16 | A fist flew towards him on the screen , filled it as it made apparent impact and then vanished away . |
| 17 | The scene lay before me like the field of a medieval tourney : banners and bunting and ladies in jewel-bright colours . |
| 18 | The carvings swung , and up there an owl of wood stared at her among the leaves . |
| 19 | A shudder ran through him at the touch of her fingers and he drew her closer , crushing her against the powerful length of his body so that she could feel his heart thundering against her breast . |
| 20 | A shudder ran through her at the thought of meeting Luke Calder again and she turned away , making a great performance of picking up her handbag . |
| 21 | Loneliness stole across him at the strangest times . |
| 22 | For the first , and last time a guard travelled with us in the box . |
| 23 | Her question remained with me throughout the rest of the journey . |
| 24 | ’ Her husband gazed at her across the body . |
| 25 | The lack of attention devoted to it by the British Government and , in particular , by the British press , in terms of the discussions at Maastricht , is symptomatic of our isolationist approach not only to Europe , but to the development of regional policy . |
| 26 | Her body bounced between them in the light gravity . |
| 27 | Lightness and truth came to her with the wind 's speed . |
| 28 | A picture came to her of the shaggy wanderers huddling together in the bus shelter at the top of the road where she had been born and bred . |
| 29 | ‘ Only one thing of importance happened to me in the Argentine . |
| 30 | But now , a week after Easter , his failure stared at him from the empty pews . |