Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They both know it 'll be all right between them in a bit .
2 The fingers were long , unnaturally thin , the skin on them so clear it seemed he could see right through them to the bone itself .
3 Once you had been through the three years what did you find had developed most for you as an actor ?
4 ‘ Do n't imagine you can take it out on me because things have not gone right for you at the party .
5 They were stars of the hard left , but we have heard little about them during the election struggle .
6 ‘ When I bought this house and insisted she move in with me she took the path of least resistance and agreed , although even then if I 'd had the wits to see them all the signs were there that although she relished my role as provider she cared very little for me as a person . ’
7 Silverstein called Douglas , who had already read the script , and to Silverstein 's tremendous relief , Kirk said that the part was n't big enough for him as a star , and not small enough for a cameo .
8 ‘ I loved it and the house works brilliantly for us as a family . ’
9 Wilcox waited impatiently for her at the bottom of the final staircase .
10 Oliver , being left to himself in the undertaker 's shop , set the lamp down on a workman 's bench , and gazed timidly about him with a feeling of awe and dread , which many people a good deal older than he will be at no loss to understand .
11 There was once in the olden days a giant who lived on Penhill who had all below him in the dale in his thrall .
12 And think better of me in the future ! ’
13 As he did this a Maltese feller started striding slowly but purposefully towards us from the back of the club .
14 He 's come round to both our Joe and our Tamar and , heaven knows , he was bitter enough against them at the start . ’
15 There are billions of galaxies much like it in the Universe .
16 She could cope well enough with him in the office where their point of contact was work , but occasional moments — like last Saturday , sitting in the sunshine in the garden of her flat , and today on the train — had shown her a glimpse of Luke the man , not simply Luke the employer .
17 Thank you very much , Sir Leonard for that , in th in the beginning of your address you posed the question , what does a company like I B M have to do with a community and then proceeded to answer your question , I think in a most , er , comprehensive way , and I I speak as someone who lives in a county , Hampshire , where I B M has a strong er , base , and I know from personal experience as a volunteer in that county , how much we value the contacts that we have with I B M and the way in which we work together with them in the way that you have described .
18 And he started to cry , there , alone with her in the cemetery , next to those he had loved the most and missed the most .
19 He looked thoughtfully from her to the dresser .
20 she 's obviously in it for the bet .
21 It just falls all over , all round me like a firework going off and floating down the sky .
22 I was only in it for a lark . ’
23 I 'm only in it for the fund-raising !
24 Kim 's only in it for the money .
25 ‘ I agree , but then he was only in it for the money .
26 This completes the picture of the perfect rock'n'roll group ; a tidal wave of Jack Daniels coolness , that carried all before it at the Stadium .
27 Harvey spent a lot of time in the office and apart from asking me if I 'd spoken to Dawlish — a suggestion which I impassively denied — he did n't say much to me until the morning of the third day , which was a Tuesday .
28 Nobody said much to me after the service .
29 You know especially to me at the moment .
30 It would not disturb you , would it , if I had to bear our child in this hole , among this dirt — I have hardly been able to keep clean over the time we 've lived here , with only a jug of cold water — and the unbearable food , and hardly enough light to see by when I have to read your script aloud to you in the evening , and then give you your pleasure in the bed every night with that woman listening through the wall ?
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