Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So are gilts , especially if you nip in to them before the next — perhaps imminent — interest rate cut . |
| 2 | Now hear this : I will take provisions only if you take me to Elaine and provide both of us with the things I ask for . ’ |
| 3 | Like a mugger you leap out at me from the dark , and my rights as a woman are violated by your obscene masculinity ! |
| 4 | The pair looked like every motorist 's bad news — the guys who leap out at you at the lights and demand money for wiping a dirty rag over your windscreen . |
| 5 | While going through the worst of the tantrum season , keep in mind that most children grow out of them by the time they 're three — this thought will help you to cope when you just feel like hiding ! |
| 6 | Remember what I did there I got three themes and for each one I got three subthemes so that what you put over to them to the audience are those three themes . |
| 7 | I measure sixty paces along the wall and then walk away from it to the nearest tree . |
| 8 | ‘ When strangers walk up to you in the street and scream abuse , it hurts , ’ he said . |
| 9 | They catch up with you in the end . |
| 10 | Dozens of people with rucksacks glare back at them from the platform as they wait for their substandard ‘ Sprinter ’ to turn up ; wet , cold and miserable perhaps , but at least secure in the knowledge that they will eventually travel through the same scenery without parting with their life savings . |
| 11 | I , I 've bought you back the whip and I 'm just about to start the other one , so hang on to it at the moment , cos I do n't like too many books around that I 've borrowed , I 've got two . |
| 12 | The great , distinguished people of the world do not know that these beggars can in the pride of their souls , look down on them as the unfortunate ones , who are left on the shore for their worldly uses , but whose life ever misses the touch of the lover 's arms . ’ |
| 13 | look down on you in the middle class ! |
| 14 | Singly and in groups , these aristocratic figures look down on us from the walls of the Crousel-Robelin-Bama gallery , proud survivors of a vanishing world . |
| 15 | International art , culture and politics , as immortalised by Pino Settanni , look down on us from the walls of the Hadrian Thomas gallery until 28 June . |
| 16 | Both made from remnants of terylene bought by Madeleine at a sale in Le Havre and run up by her on the black and gold sewing-machine you had to pedal like a toy car . |
| 17 | Armed with FARMERS WEEKLY information ( read out to him over the telephone ) I was able instantly to negotiate a return to quarterly charging with my branch manager and a reduction of ½%; in the cost of my borrowing over base rate . |
| 18 | Watch out for him in the second series of The Young Ones when it 's next repeated , making a brief guest appearance as an exploding peasant . |
| 19 | Watch out for it on the ski slopes — if red is the choice , at least you 'll see it coming ! |
| 20 | Edith Wiens has a tight vibrato , not at all like the vibrato of French sopranos and which rather spoils her second soprano solo , but the others make up for it with the highly unusual duo for first soprano and bass , accompanied by harp and organ ( an arresting combination ) , or with the utterly ravishing trio for first soprano , tenor and bass , with its elaborate harp accompaniment . |
| 21 | You know especially to me at the moment . |
| 22 | The Tirajana apartments are ideal for those wishing to enjoy the nightlife and then get away from it at the end of the day . |
| 23 | Only after that will he turn the remaining details of his zombi control over to us for the final phase on the island . |
| 24 | ‘ We have therefore suspended the Winchester Group as an appointed representative of the Norwich Union to take effect immediately and to continue until such time as they hear further from us to the contrary . |
| 25 | Like Chance Wayne when you watch that scene in the film , he made you just want to wake up with him in the room , wake up with him in the bed beside you . |
| 26 | Melanie did not know how Finn washed , when he washed , if he ever washed ; but Francie would sometimes fill an oval tin bath from kettles and saucepans boiled on the stove and sit impassively in it in the kitchen behind a locked door . |
| 27 | But you may get to keep the other assets from the marriage , or pay less to her over the years . |
| 28 | People rush up to me in the street , and ask to touch me . |
| 29 | A neighbour suggested I go along with her to the local WI and , despite my reservations , I had a wonderful time . |
| 30 | Towards the end of ‘ Stately As a Galleon ’ I get cramp in both feet and they curl up under me like the last Empress 's fingernails and stay cramped through waltzing finale , curtain calls and notes from director , friends and husband . |