Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fingers were long , unnaturally thin , the skin on them so clear it seemed he could see right through them to the bone itself . |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't imagine you can take it out on me because things have not gone right for you at the party . |
| 3 | They were stars of the hard left , but we have heard little about them during the election struggle . |
| 4 | Wilcox waited impatiently for her at the bottom of the final staircase . |
| 5 | There was once in the olden days a giant who lived on Penhill who had all below him in the dale in his thrall . |
| 6 | And think better of me in the future ! ’ |
| 7 | As he did this a Maltese feller started striding slowly but purposefully towards us from the back of the club . |
| 8 | He 's come round to both our Joe and our Tamar and , heaven knows , he was bitter enough against them at the start . ’ |
| 9 | There are billions of galaxies much like it in the Universe . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And he started to cry , there , alone with her in the cemetery , next to those he had loved the most and missed the most . |
| 13 | He looked thoughtfully from her to the dresser . |
| 14 | she 's obviously in it for the bet . |
| 15 | I 'm only in it for the fund-raising ! |
| 16 | Kim 's only in it for the money . |
| 17 | ‘ I agree , but then he was only in it for the money . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Nobody said much to me after the service . |
| 21 | You know especially to me at the moment . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | I can never be grateful enough to them for the sacrifice they made to keep me at school , when even ten shillings a week would have relieved the pressure on the food bill . |
| 24 | She had enticed them in like an old witch , Val said , by talking volubly to them in the garden about the quietness of the place , giving them each a small , gold , furry apricot from the espaliered trees along the curving brick wall . |
| 25 | It 's a rare person who can ignore a letter sent personally to him over the signature of Clint Eastwood or Charlton Heston , saying ‘ I need your help ’ . |
| 26 | So if you 're going or When my daughter had a driving test I was massaging neroli all over her in the hope that she would calm down . |
| 27 | ‘ Great brutes , liable to trample all over you at the drop of a hat . ’ |
| 28 | They had n't got no kids , yelling and nagging at you the minute you get in , crawling all over you in the night because they 're cutting their bloody teeth . |
| 29 | ‘ They 're all over us in the air , and we ca n't stop them on the ground . |
| 30 | Ellie stood on a chair at the sink to wash up , while Patsy waited patiently beside her on the floor , taking the plates carefully from her and drying them . |