Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The QDMs passed to you by the DF operator are now your track to the station . |
| 2 | Iron Josh beckoned him down , and Denis knelt beside him in the cart . |
| 3 | Ma peered at him over the top of the evening paper , Her eyes were shifty with guilt . |
| 4 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 5 | She slid across the bed , making room for Johnny to sit beside her on the mattress . |
| 6 | Max Gate , the house Hardy designed for himself on the edge of town , is stranded behind a new roundabout and it is difficult now to imagine him setting out from there to ride along the lanes with Kipling or H. G. Wells . |
| 7 | Bella peered at her through the dark . |
| 8 | When Pat came to me in the autumn of 1989 she was suffering from osteoarthritis of the neck and spine with accompanying raised blood pressure . |
| 9 | She lied to her father on the day of her escape when Lancelot says to her of the escape — Act 2 , Scene 5 , line 39–41 : |
| 10 | I mean you get Sweet Fanny Adams done with them on the run up to Christmas anyway , E.l.S . |
| 11 | He stabbed a man scrambling up the bulwarks beside him , and cheered as Hector 's galleys swept up to the shore and another horde of Macleans poured from them to the rescue of their clansmen . |
| 12 | The latter readily agreed , inviting Corbett to walk with him in the silent , shadowy cloisters , taking advantage of the first soft breezes of early summer . |
| 13 | Disappointed at the constable 's absence , since he and Richard had prepared a verbal message for their mother , Edward remarked on it to the servant , a stranger , who brought their supper . |
| 14 | And it was then that she saw Christie Goldsborough coming towards her along the path , his spectacular , fur-lined driving-cape swinging loose around his shoulders , his feet encased in the finest quality leather , his carriage — a shiny , high-perch sporting phaeton — waiting for him just there , in the road beyond the church wall , whenever he had a mind to take the reins in his gloved hands and go dashing off to drink champagne and eat bride-cake at Frizingley Hall . |
| 15 | What time is Lucy coming to you by the way Terry ? |
| 16 | She followed , and Lucy waved at her in the mirror at every light . |
| 17 | Lucy stared at herself in the mirror . |
| 18 | Grimma stared at her with the kind of expression reserved for people who turn out , against all expectation , to have interesting and secret histories . |
| 19 | Corbett stared past her at the timbered house . |
| 20 | Yeah but you say to her that they 're always on about how s Shrimpy ca n't do anything for himself , and it 's between Emma , it 's not between it was al even Scott said to me at the beginning oh it 's not between me , it 's nothing to do with me , it 's between Emma and Scott . |
| 21 | Their conversation ceased as the eloquent tones of Michael Stein carried towards them on the public address system . |
| 22 | Neil Spencer wrote about it in the New Musical Express beneath the headline ‘ Do n't Look Over Your Shoulder , But The Sex Pistols Are Coming . ’ |
| 23 | That weekend is also memorable for something Dana said to me in the train on the way back to Salamanca : ‘ I knew you were gay as soon as I saw you that morning in the galleria . ’ |
| 24 | He glanced in to find Nadine Cunningham smiling at him from the driver 's seat . |
| 25 | ‘ Andy Gould , ’ I say , because — apart from everything else — Andy stayed with me during the summer , round about the time the card with my writing on it went missing . |
| 26 | Deceiving him gave her a fierce pleasure and , as they strolled along by the waterline , with Ben splashing beside them through the shallows , she kept her hatred burning red-hot with a litany of her grievances , chanted over and over inside her head : ‘ He only pretended to like you ; he could n't care less about you ; he thinks you 're thick . |
| 27 | Odysseus met with them in the wine-dark sea of the Mediterranean and called them Cyclops , Scylla and Charybdis . |
| 28 | He heard Fergus colliding with something in the room . |
| 29 | I could see I could see Li er Charlie and Pete looking at me from the other side of the room , Charlie smiled and I just did I just went like that , you know ? |
| 30 | Since it was the golden-fleeced ram the king really wanted , he was not at all pleased when Marko came before him on the seventh day with a jug of sweet wine and a cluster of grapes in his handkerchief . |