Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The person ‘ goosed ’ then chases round and tries to catch the runner before he or she gets back to the space where the goosed person was sitting . |
| 2 | Either the individual can not get to sleep in the first place or he wakes frequently during the night . |
| 3 | But that , it does n't say after the SAT , the written comment can be made er , where we send er D and I reports home at the moment , i.e. er , just after half term in the second term . |
| 4 | And she goes up to the two blokes and she grabs them by the balls and goes mm not bad , nice butt , you know ? |
| 5 | And she goes out into the street and she pulls her skirt up . |
| 6 | James pushes Sandra and she falls over onto the cake that Sharon has just baked in cookery . |
| 7 | And she gets up in the night and sits by the telephone in the hall in the dark . |
| 8 | Aunt Elena is a concert pianist , and she plays all over the country and in Europe , too . |
| 9 | And she comes back to the Counts of Lusignan to foretell deaths — she is a kind of Dame Blanche , or Fata Bianca . |
| 10 | And she was coming back along towards and she comes all along the dual carriageway and this car in front of her |
| 11 | But then I 've got ta meet Emma and she stands up at the top . |
| 12 | And they comes up to the edge of the box and they 're growling and barking . |
| 13 | He does , he likes to get in the bedroom and , and he fiddles on with the erm |
| 14 | And he smiles afresh at the thought of what that particular victory meant to everyone who witnessed it . |
| 15 | Yet the practising Christian remains as ignorant as his predecessors of centuries ago ; and he subscribes essentially to the same simplistic accounts he heard when he himself was a child . |
| 16 | Beckett remarks in Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in progress , that Joyce 's work is ‘ not about something : it is that something itself ( Beckett 1929 and 1972 : 14 ) , and he goes on in the central part of his oeuvre , the trilogy Molloy , Malone Dies , The Unnamable ( 1950 — 2 ) , to create a kind of autonomy of his own — — as the Unnamable remarks , ‘ it all boils down to a question of words … all words , there 's nothing else ’ ( 1959 and 1979 : 308 ) . |
| 17 | And he clips them in and he goes all over the cars . |
| 18 | So he cries and he goes back to the beach . |
| 19 | It is necessary to preserve this style and he does so despite the modernity of some of the movements . |
| 20 | When he has not seen the man he has hoped to see , his long spine slackens and he falls back upon the red vinyl of the booth with his eyes closed and his foot shaking in a livid tic . |
| 21 | 's bank in Catford was just one of 's targets , we do not know exactly how he managed to penetrate their security , but he was undoubtedly helped by the fact that his main business is debt collecting , and he numbers most of the big banks among his clients . |
| 22 | We are delighted to welcome Mark and his team to Rentokil , and he looks forward to the many leads which will no doubt be forthcoming . |
| 23 | But Kevin still has his Dad 's bag — and credit card — and he checks in at the ritzy Plaza Hotel before embarking on an hilarious , hair-raising adventure when he runs into the same villains — Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern — who he fought off when he was Home Alone . |
| 24 | The air has become all silent , all female , and he steps in with the breeze of the outer world on him like a blast of cold nitrogen . |
| 25 | Sadism had always been of theoretical interest to Freud , and he suggests in Beyond the Pleasure Principle that it derives its energy from the death instincts . |
| 26 | He wheels the kind of u-turn he 's been longing to do since he saw it on Hill Street Blues and he roars up to the entrance . |
| 27 | They usually give him a 20 pence piece and he heads straight for the bar to buy his favourite ready-salted snack . |
| 28 | For every year at midwinter the sun grows weak and pale , and he sinks down into the marshes to spend the long winter night there , and Mokosh , the old witch , his foster-mother , nurses him until he is strong again , with herbs and spells and incantations . |
| 29 | Hynes catches adroitly the flavour of poetry and politics in a period when even poetry found it impossible to be politically neutral , and he writes perceptively of the underlying links between such disparate writers as , for example , Isherwood and Greene . |
| 30 | so one council 's got a bit of paper and it ties up with the other one when you come here but if you do n't , if you have n't paid before you could n't tell them you were leaving |