Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Independent 's raising prices , Rupert Murdoch 's cutting them at the Sun and the Times . |
| 2 | Jean was pulling him by the hand towards the dance . |
| 3 | First er but I 've been tol I 'm sorry I 'm I have n't realized Scott was joining us on the line . |
| 4 | Sue was beckoning her from the till . |
| 5 | Yeah , I think he did er , Rumpole was put him in the big time really . |
| 6 | He felt as if Simon were lifting him by the collar and dangling him so that his feet were off the earth and his toes straining to reach something . |
| 7 | ‘ Mr Foggerty 's taking us to the baths after school , he said . ’ |
| 8 | The Royal Bank of Scotland is suing him in the High Court to recover the money , which includes a £500,000 overdraft . |
| 9 | As Estella was leading me along the dark passages , she stopped suddenly and put her face close to mine . |
| 10 | Maggie was taking a plane to London that night and Sheila and Mona were driving her to the airport . |
| 11 | Yeah i well he 's just distressed cos I think Gill 's phoning him in the morning and she said she 'd give him a lift to the hospital . |
| 12 | I think Alwin and Pat use an auditor cos as you know he 's in business and I 've got a feeling that Alwin was asking me about the auditors the other day , so whether there 's would be , whoever he is , would be er willing to do it , I do n't know . |
| 13 | Nigel Cramer was phrasing it by the book . |
| 14 | But Michele was urging her down the steps , and the gondolier had reached up to assist her into the gently rocking craft . |
| 15 | I do n't know how much Oliver 's told you about the Shakespeare School , but take it from me that place is tacky : how it got its registered status I shudder to think . |
| 16 | In English , Miss J. was telling us about the Blessed Damozel . |
| 17 | Agnese was leading them through the front door into a cool tiled hallway , strewn with locally woven rugs and sweet with the delicate scent of freesias . |
| 18 | Souness is fixing me with the glare he reserves for the enemy , the look that countless midfield players must have known to their terror , a look that threatens to rupture my Achilles tendon , if I hover on a question too long . |
| 19 | GERRY JOHNSON is driving me along the winding roads of south-western Virginia . |
| 20 | But by then , Nicolo was hurrying her down the steps , out of the building , and into a black Mercedes limousine . |
| 21 | Len was thumping him on the arm now with his fist . |
| 22 | ‘ Lieutenant Lapointe is escorting me to the opera on Wednesday , ’ she announced defiantly . |
| 23 | The Wantage white horses swim club are off to the Palace tomorrow … that 's the Crystal one … world number one Mark Foster is coaching them for the day … |
| 24 | Everyone is being extra nice to me and , best of all , Pa is taking me to the yard tomorrow . |
| 25 | As the novelist E. M. Forster was to put it in the Indian summer of the bourgeoisie : ‘ In came the dividends , up went the lofty thoughts . ’ |
| 26 | Alison 's taking her in the van . |
| 27 | To the extant that Professor Preston is warning us of the dangers of oversimplification and bad herme-neutics then we do well to listen to him . |
| 28 | Eachuinn Odhar was awaiting them among the crowd in the hall . |
| 29 | By May 1987 McFarlane was describing them to the Baltimore Sun as ‘ incompetent Coca-Cola bottlers and clerks ’ . |
| 30 | Fabia got out , then found that before she could say a word , Ven was escorting her inside the hotel and waiting with her while she collected her room key . |