Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | I asked about you down at the corner , the shop there . |
2 | And , gulping the sweet air , I gazed about me gratefully at the clean green land where I worked and made my living . |
3 | Men , as he tried to pull himself to his feet , something big and heavy and square cannoned into him out of the dark and plunged off after the wizard . |
4 | But just at that moment Cedric was obviously working something else off because the familiar pungency rose from him even above the billowings from the pipe . |
5 | He moved in her slowly to the rhythm of the distant sea . |
6 | He peered at him suspiciously through the gloom . |
7 | She woke in the early dawn and peered around her blearily through the heavy mist that filled the wood . |
8 | Even as he did get his bearings a great tree swirled towards him out of the night and a rook he never saw rose up in alarm , cawing darkly away into the storm . |
9 | A large sign swooped towards them out of the night , its message glowing luminously in the beam of the headlights . |
10 | As he came towards her out of the darkness the inevitable shock of physical awareness swept over her , sharpened now by the experience they had just shared . |
11 | And when supper was ready he bade his knights take their seats , and he took the leper by the hand , and seated him next himself , and ate with him out of the same dish . |
12 | Although comedy came to him easily in the sense that he seems to have made the class laugh at will from a tender age , it is , like everything else , something that he works at and it annoys him when others fail to do so . |
13 | The cough and splutter of an aircraft engine came to her clearly on the still evening air . |
14 | Guy 's voice , tight with frustration at his own helplessness , came to her out of the darkness . |
15 | Lyall , who piloted Town to the Second Division Championship in only his second season , said : ‘ Ipswich came to me out of the blue and brought me back into management . |
16 | But no cries came to them there on the terrace , the darkness lit by the moon , the bright stars spread like a net across a sky that never lost its blueness , the scented tapers burning between the statuary of the amorous god . |
17 | ‘ It came to us out of the blue . |
18 | If we assumed that Wetherby came across him unexpectedly on the premises , and turned away to give the alarm , how does that fit with the cheese and the bloodstains ? |
19 | The throaty rumble of twin diesel motors muttered at them out of the darkness . |
20 | Every ten minutes or so a larger swell came at them out of the darkness . |
21 | A heavy swell came at them out of the thick darkness . |
22 | What else was there to do ? she thought miserably as she squelched behind him up to the bathroom . |
23 | About his wife she had no reservations : tough and vital , the life force flowed through her even as the cancer — which she would acknowledge to no one , and certainly not to her husband — extended its grip on her . |
24 | Longing flamed in her again at the smell and feel of it . |
25 | So when he turned to her casually in the car , and suggested that they call in at his house for some tea before they parted , Folly found herself leaping on the suggestion with almost indecent haste . |
26 | Yes , we heard of it even on the same day . |
27 | Ehm , I walked past her twice at the airport . |
28 | As one father walked with me recently by the lake where his seventeen-year-old son deliberately drowned himself , he spoke of being ‘ a man of affliction ’ . |
29 | ‘ Okay , ’ she walked with him down to the first landing . |
30 | I prayed to him furiously in the van when I thought I was going to die ( that 's a proof against , I can hear G.P. saying ) . |