Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told me that the previous year she had confided to an American friend in Rome that the two people who most fascinated her in the world were Albert Schweitzer and Herbert von Karajan ; and a year later she was sitting in an empty hall with Walter Legge , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , and Herbert von Karajan listening to a private recital on the organ by Albert Schweitzer . |
| 2 | Why , she wondered , when she had effectively let him off the hook ? |
| 3 | He threw off the blanket , picked up the limp girl and gently placed her on the mat in front of the blazing fire . |
| 4 | ‘ I have only seen her at the funeral . |
| 5 | His present celebrity is a fairly recent phenomenon , and he insists that it has not really affected him , although he acknowledges that his appearances on television shows and in magazine profiles have somewhat robbed him of the anonymity which still clings to his ‘ invisible ’ friend , Cartier-Bresson . |
| 6 | We 've argued for years about meals on wheel service that there should be seven day a week service throughout this authority , we 've only got it in the City , we want it throughout the authority . |
| 7 | It was a thoroughly tested number as Tiller had not only shown it at the Palace but his La Scala Girls had also performed it at the Winter Gardens Pavilion , Blackpool , the previous year . |
| 8 | At journey 's end she folded over the top of the bag and thoughtfully replaced it behind the netting on the back of the seat in front . |
| 9 | The mess steward came in with Woolley 's piano-accordion and gently laid it on the table . |
| 10 | Or probably , since you ca n't trust anybody any more , you 'd better put it through the letter box . ’ |
| 11 | But then you thought you 'd better put it in the fridge ? |
| 12 | ‘ I still ca n't work out how they got away with it because I 'd only left it outside the tent for a few moments before it vanished . |
| 13 | Somebody had obviously left it in the cubicle . |
| 14 | Eliot had apparently declined it on the plea that it was Lent . |
| 15 | She had rarely seen him outside the context of the family . |
| 16 | I have just heard it on the news . ’ |
| 17 | I assumed he 'd just picked you for the resemblance . ’ |
| 18 | We have already considered it in the context of stress and frustration ( ie. conflict between the individual and his environment ) and role theory ( ie. inter-personal conflict within the individual ) . |
| 19 | She was gabbling , her voice breathy and barely under control , because she 'd raised her eyes to his face only to find the expression there more disturbing than the casual masculine pose he 'd adopted , and which had already reminded her of the night she 'd spent in his bed . |
| 20 | Well he 's probably just caught him on the back of on the back of the calf but er I thought it was as you say I thought it was a nice sharp incisive tackle . |
| 21 | He 'd already stabbed me in the heart several times before that with other ladies , but at least this time , there was a lady that I liked immensely . |
| 22 | Perhaps all those years wasted mooning over Jake had somehow robbed her of the ability to give her love to someone more deserving . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've only just made it before the final melt . ’ |
| 24 | Allison , who took over Rovers four games ago after the sacking of Dennis Rofe , has already hauled them off the bottom of the table and claims they are going to be a force to be reckoned with . |
| 25 | ‘ Bailey 's already briefed him on the telephone but he wo n't know you 're in charge of the operation until he gets here . |
| 26 | ‘ I have already got it from the beat constable that she was n't there at four o'clock . ’ |
| 27 | but he 'd just told me about the housing with the car and everything . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's all very well , but Chamberlain 's only just told us on the wireless that the war 's begun . ’ |
| 29 | I 've only just got it in the washing machine . |
| 30 | She might have just had it off the hook yesterday . |