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 ) . |