Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the ones who are , who have seen it all before , and done it from last year , because they had to split a smaller section of them up into the first year . |
| 2 | They do it in and up the road in Peterborough they 've got about thirty eight community centre and the labour run council there is handing every one , every one of them over to the local communities . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm a good fighter , I 've had 18 wins in 18 fights , and knocked seven of them out in the first round . |
| 4 | ‘ I just needed to see you ! ’ she said with a brittle smile , walking past him on to the hot beach , feeling the tears burn her eyes . |
| 5 | The headland looming ahead of us out of the growing daylight would be the one immediately to the west of the cottage . |
| 6 | Coming from eighty throats , it swept with them down from the wooded foothills and made them sound like a flock of scavenging birds disturbed from their carcass . |
| 7 | She had taken her last look at this obscure outpost of the Soviet Union and now stood with her back to the low sun . |
| 8 | She made a frantic leap to shake them off , as they lifted her back and front nearside feet over the rope and positioned her with her back to the revving Mercedes again . |
| 9 | She changed seats with Hugo so that she sat with her back to the other diners . |
| 10 | Mrs Hollidaye , supping porridge with her back to the flaming range and her face towards the window exclaimed , ‘ Why do look , Dorothy ! |
| 11 | ‘ Okay , ’ she walked with him down to the first landing . |
| 12 | And when supper was ready he bade his knights take their seats , and he took the leper by the hand , and seated him next himself , and ate with him out of the same dish . |
| 13 | Pale roads snaked from them down to the newer tourist settlements by the sea . |
| 14 | She turned away from him back into the big sitting-room , wondering how she was to bear this fresh indignity without giving her innermost secret away . |
| 15 | Coun Williams added local disabled groups were consulted during the planning stage of the scheme and would benefit from it along with the elderly and parents with pushchairs . |
| 16 | Graft and corruption goes o throughout Italy , but it 's the extent of it and who was involved in it up to the Prime Minister that was the problem , but no I have no problems , John I know you 're trying to get on . |
| 17 | But if your item weighs a half a kilo , we 'll round it up to the first kilo so that 's any valid for fifteen pounds . |
| 18 | It can hardly be of great value to them out on the open ocean where they spend the bulk of their time , except perhaps to detect the stench of a floating carcass on which they might feed . |
| 19 | Lyall , who piloted Town to the Second Division Championship in only his second season , said : ‘ Ipswich came to me out of the blue and brought me back into management . |
| 20 | Some might call it jealousy I suppose , but it was once my joy to lie between Ma and Pa and listen to the stories of Noah and Jonah which Pa read to me out of the True Book . |
| 21 | It had loomed over him out of the spectral mist , more horrible by far than the ghoul brats he and Cleo had encountered in the forest . |
| 22 | As it crossed its own lines , a plane suddenly dived on it out of the early morning sun . |
| 23 | ‘ I know , dear — there is a farm next door to us back on the dear old homestead and Daddy does usually describe himself as a farmer — but I meant that we capitalist parasites would be taking the place of the oxen , not the horny-handed salt-of-the-earth types cracking the whip over them . ’ |
| 24 | Everything about it up to the last page where Strauss wrote IN MEMORIAM ! and we hear the ‘ Eroica ’ theme for the last time . |
| 25 | In the summer of ‘ 86 there was something called the Harmonic Convergence , which was supposed to usher in the Age of Aquarius — people who were going on about it back in the 60s jumped the gun by about 20 years . |
| 26 | A heavy swell came at them out of the thick darkness . |
| 27 | There was a frightened gasp and the ghost rose , too , staring at him out of the two hollows that were its eyes . |