Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this guise , the computer 's role was to deliver machine-readable information that would supplement that normally found by students in printed form or received by them in the shape of lectures and seminars . |
| 2 | The United States ' Constitution includes the clause ( in the Tenth Amendment ) that ‘ The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution , nor prohibited by it to the States , are reserved to the States respectively , or to the people ’ . |
| 3 | The face loomed up out of the darkness and leered at her through the rain-soaked glass . |
| 4 | ‘ Serendipitous , eh ? ’ he said , and leered at me through the artificial gloom , his rubber lips curling up . |
| 5 | And of course , Bullitt had directly observed the man and interacted with him during the critical time at , at the Versailles conference . |
| 6 | Only I would have probably braked , changed down ended up in second and crept past it on the inside and then speeded up again . |
| 7 | He constructed his own refined version of the newly-invented telescope and peered through it from the top of St Mark 's tower in Venice . |
| 8 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |
| 9 | As the two women were saying their goodbyes he came to the end of his task , switched off the motor-mower and headed with it towards the narrow gate at the side of the house . |
| 10 | A Briton known to leaders of a charity based in Northampton discovered them and fled with them to the relative safety of Split . |
| 11 | Mother and daughter were glad of each other 's company then , while the electric storm boomed and crashed around them in the black night , as if aiming for this one exposed place . |
| 12 | Then she jumped up from the bed before he could grab her again and darted past him to the window . |
| 13 | As relief spread to pure pleasure she waved and came towards him across the yard like a young girl . |
| 14 | Now he drained it and squinted at her through the glass . |
| 15 | Having reached the most distant onlookers , a young couple pushing up-and-down a baby in a pram , the girl drew tight the neck of the bag and strolled with it to the stage . |
| 16 | Rather than spend too long on developing a perfect composition , I settled for a core arrangement of objects that looked good together and added to it as the drawing and colouring progressed . |
| 17 | The secret language , the underground stream that forced through her like a river , that rose and danced inside her like the pulling jet of a fountain , that wetted her face and hands like fine spray , that joined her back to what she had lost , to something she had once intimately known , that she could hardly believe would always be there as it was now , which waited for her and called her by her name . |
| 18 | After about five minutes a middle-aged woman appeared in the doorway and , seeing Lucy , stopped and frowned at her over the top of her glasses . |
| 19 | The woman smiled and nodded at me through the noise that made a surrounding silence . |
| 20 | She was delighted to see me , as it meant she would not have to go on her own , and she stood over me while , complaining bitterly , I changed into my jacket and returned with her to the revels . |
| 21 | He stood up and walked beside her to the edge of the wood where his horse was tethered . |
| 22 | Penry sighed , picked her up , and walked with her to the door . |
| 23 | Alan showed me another way out of the bar , so we avoided Young Trotsky , and walked with me to the van . |
| 24 | The Doctor stepped back , watched her for a moment , and walked round her to the console at which Britta was working . |
| 25 | He spread it out , and glanced from it to the screen . |
| 26 | Cautiously he mounted the remaining stairs , recognised the figure for what it was and stepped over it to the wheelhouse . |
| 27 | If I think the short-term one first , that 's perhaps the most obvious one , in the sense that most is written and talked about it at the moment , erm namely the cutbacks on expenditure in education . |
| 28 | Gav — who probably epitomised thick-skulledness , though admittedly would not be amongst one 's first fifteen when it came to offering proof of heavy traffic within the central nervous system — opened one bleary eye and focused on me with the same accuracy one has grown to expect from security forces aiming baton rounds at protesters ' legs . |
| 29 | He seemed a little tense , and looked past me at the bedroom door ; and I was reminded of that first day . |
| 30 | She flashed the note around , proudly though covertly , and looked for him at the bus stop , but she could not look for him without some misgiving . |