Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] [prep] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty minutes later , she was still trying to forget the way he had looked at her before slamming the door behind him . |
| 2 | The tabloids turned on them for selling the idea of drugs to schoolchildren and having too much sex . |
| 3 | She had told him lies about where Bella 's money was hidden , pretended to be fascinated when he had lied to her about spending the day with his father : ‘ We played golf together , then he took me for a ride in the new car . |
| 4 | It is not unusual to see management prepare one business plan and profit projections for the benefit of the company 's owners , to be used by them in determining the price at which they will be prepared to sell ; and another more optimistic plan and projections for themselves . |
| 5 | If you try to make life complicated for yourself by using the wrong tool or handling it in an inappropriate fashion then the result is solely your responsibility . |
| 6 | There were other , more delicate feelings which Annie realised had been awoken inside her by meeting the handsome young man . |
| 7 | And what a trick Fate had played on him by putting the very qualities he had wanted to see in that son in a daughter . |
| 8 | This poem foreshadows the method of the later , greater poetry of The Waste Land in trying to hold the most primitive and most developed in one by letting the former show through the latter and the development of one out of the other be seen . |
| 9 | As I have not heard from you since sending the Information memorandum on the above group . |
| 10 | It was the first he time had spoken to her since leaving the harbour . |
| 11 | She had n't spoken to him since leaving the harbour . |
| 12 | First , it distanced the riots from the social , economic , political , and other grievances which had been linked to them by locating the cause outside the ‘ social problems ’ of inner-city dwellers and in the ‘ simple greed ’ of the drug barons to accumulate ‘ loot ’ . |
| 13 | The same sentiment appears in Lagunas Nitrate Company v Lagunas Syndicate , where it is suggested , somewhat eccentrically , that effect might be given to it by allowing the directors to plead the defence of volenti non fit iniuria . |
| 14 | It was held that the agreement was void and that effect could not be given to it by rejecting the general restraint which appeared in it and limiting the agreement for the purposes of the action to carrying on the business of a tailor . |
| 15 | Basler 's N96BF was built for the US Navy as R4D-5 ( C-47A-25DK equivalent ) BuNo 17223 and served with them until joining the French naval air arm — Aeronavale — in early 1964 . |
| 16 | Frances Bradburn is loving every bit of the attention bestowed on her after winning the region 's Mum of the Year Award . |
| 17 | You will be responsible for all fees and expenses incurred by you in reviewing the Information and investigating the affairs of the Company and neither KPMG Peat Marwick , the Company nor the Vendors shall have any liability therefor . |
| 18 | Clearly , orthodox ministerial responsibility could not be extended to them without undermining the arm 's length principle . |
| 19 | They are all so remarkably tame , that any number of shots may be fired among them without causing the slightest alarm to any but those that are actually wounded . ’ |