Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] and [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before such people can act together , a kind of telepathic feeling has to flow through them and ripen to the point when they all know that they are ready to begin . |
| 2 | Ferns grew head-high on either side , and suddenly Mary started back with a cry as the ferns parted and something bounded through them and leapt across the path not two feet from her . |
| 3 | Alexandra stood between them and looked down the lane , sunk between high fields , and saw the church tower rising among leafless trees and the blue slate roofs that clustered round it . |
| 4 | It bounced and rolled between them and lay in the shadow of the chair . |
| 5 | If you allowed for the shape of two paper-backs , between them and jutting from the end was a two-inch pack of what could be paper money . |
| 6 | Kicking back the covers , I let my feet touch the carpet , put on the white and blue striped kaftan which my journalist daughter had made for me and walked to the window overlooking the central court . |
| 7 | Initially , older people were removed from the community supports which traditionally looked after them and subjected to the rigours of a ‘ work or starve ’ philosophy . |
| 8 | Ruth blazed , limping after him and struggling with the cool-box . |
| 9 | He turned his head slightly towards me and spoke in the direction of my tie . |
| 10 | By the time the flotilla had reached a latitude of 50°S , and had stopped again for rest and replenishment , the men were becoming restive once more : their plea now was ) — if the expedition wanted to reach the Spice Islands , why not turn east towards them and pass below the Cape of Good Hope , as usual ? |
| 11 | He rushed past me and went into the nearest building . |
| 12 | He went past me and bent over the dead man . |
| 13 | But there would be lights in the chapel , Isabel assured herself , peering ahead for a sign of them and flinching from the feel of the rough stone beneath her palm . |
| 14 | To be absolutely sure she followed one of them and came to the place where they curved round in front of a tree and retreated . |
| 15 | The arrangements which people make privately for various domestic services are well known and little questioned , although practitioners need to be aware of them and relate to the people concerned in planning packages of care . |
| 16 | Eventually they take a plastic sack they 've found on the beach , drape it round the pair of them and walk into the water , giggling . |
| 17 | The archaeologist ran in front of them and stood in the middle of the road . |
| 18 | ‘ And a gardener-handyman , ’ said Charlotte , her eyes following the vigorous heave and surge of the mole-brown water as it tore down past them and ripped at the curve of the bank , lipping half across the trodden right of way . |
| 19 | Stuart pointed just ahead of them but as he spoke , a little white Mini sped past them and slid into the place he had spotted . |
| 20 | She fetched antiseptic and some cotton wool , then bent towards him and dabbed at the place , a pose that brought their heads close together . |
| 21 | He waited a few moments until the footsteps were directly below him and peeked over the edge . |
| 22 | I moved towards her and sat on the bed and put an arm round her . |
| 23 | Her jaw dropped as the woman walked past her and stopped by the car . |
| 24 | Then , with a sound of disgust , Feargal pushed past her and went into the house . |
| 25 | Ace , holstering her gun , brushed past her and loped towards the doorway . |
| 26 | He had moved past her and stood at the foot of a soaring staircase , hands on his hips . |
| 27 | Maggie let go of her and called up the stairs . |
| 28 | She walked up a gravel drive crowded with large cars , past an old-fashioned wooden pavilion and two clay tennis courts , ignored the adult game going on in front of her and started around the boundary to the second and much smaller game in the far corner . |
| 29 | They took no notice of him and stood on the front step , talking in low voices . |
| 30 | He motioned an unwilling Adjutant and Sergeant out ahead of him and stood by the open door , frowning so deeply that Clarissa would have followed if Charity had n't risked leaving her defences and staked all on a final devastating attack . |