Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something with the consistency of cement began to splatter from Peters ' ripped torso , but still he clung on to it in the renewed savagery of his hunger . |
| 2 | You see , we 'd got such confidence that she told me that when he died , she said , ‘ He died in his bed here ’ , that we were in , you see ; and she said , ‘ I then closed his eyes and I laid down with him till the morning so that nobody should be disturbed . ’ |
| 3 | Crowds of spectators were thronging the sides of the narrow road which led down from it into the village and , after Vitor had hurriedly found a parking place , they joined them . |
| 4 | A couple of anachronisms fighting it out here while real life moved in on them from the east almost unnoticed . |
| 5 | The message seeped through to her via the depth of his kisses , the gentle strength in the fingers that ruffled her hair before kneading their way down her spine — and his arousal , which betrayed his hunger to make love . |
| 6 | Western attention was mostly directed towards the Kurds , who rose up against him at the same time , but the greater threat to Saddam and the heavier loss of life was Shiite , Not Kurdish . |
| 7 | Is not it true that some documents that the Public Accounts Committee receives are not published , such as the memorandum that the National Audit Office drew up for me on the accountability of United Nations agencies ? |
| 8 | The tanks and troops were still crossing the river as the Officer I had accompanied drew up beside me with the jeep . |
| 9 | A man caught up with her on the pavement and for a moment she stared at him blankly . |
| 10 | He caught up with her on the far side of the teahouse , in an area that was roped off for the staff 's use only . |
| 11 | ‘ I mean , ’ Magrit said apologetically , ‘ that we caught up with her at the ice-cliffs just beyond the perimeter . |
| 12 | Halfway down we caught up with them outside the Trift Hotel and sat together in the sunshine on the veranda looking up at the peaks , eating spaghetti and drinking beer . |
| 13 | She caught up with him beside the telephone . |
| 14 | Morton caught up with him at the crossroads . |
| 15 | Charles caught up with him in the Green Room . |
| 16 | I swam hard and caught up with him round the corner of the old castle . |
| 17 | Our main memory is of trying to keep the inside of the windscreen free of ice ( no heater ) while queues of traffic built up beside us on the long haul up Shap Fell . |
| 18 | Everyone stopped and looked around and one or two voices shouted back to him along the valley . |
| 19 | Luch , returning from taking Marion some soup , drifted aside out of his way , and pattered back behind him to the shieling to find out what was happening . |
| 20 | A wee grey woman wearing a headscarf peered out at me from the end of the bus queue . |
| 21 | We only found out about it in the British press when we arrived in Wales . |
| 22 | She eventually got through to her in the early evening . |
| 23 | ah well , we , we did er , that house we did in , in er Kingsley , well the other side of Kingsley by Northwich for er , he 's the managing director of Tarmac for the North West Division and there he bought this house at Kingsley and er we added on to it on the kitchen was a complete wing that we built , a single storey and the roof spars had to show we had to put imitation |
| 24 | Only the line of grim cages among whose bars whined the winter wind , and above them the great plane trees that bent across the sky , their leafless branches bending in the wind like twisted hands that came down towards him from the angry sky . |
| 25 | Undaunted , the young Scot chased after the opposition in one shoe and came in with them to the final take-over . |
| 26 | His Dad came in with them into the entrance lobby . |
| 27 | Erm what , what was the feeling that came over to you from the tenants ' group at the time ? |
| 28 | A GARAGE owner lost £4,000 takings after he drove off with it on the bonnet of his jeep . |
| 29 | I got on the bus at the terminus at the bottom of Avondale Buildings and rode it back and forth to the other end of the line , sitting on the top deck , not knowing where I was or what I was doing , until the conductor came up to me at the other terminus , after my fifth trip , and asked : ‘ You all right , mate ? ’ |
| 30 | I HAVE several times told the story of the lady who came up to me at the end of one of my lectures on the relationship between science and music and said , ‘ It 's all very well doing all these scientific tests on musical instruments but can you explain the tingle in the spine that some music produces ? ’ |