Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Test for it with a screwdriver . |
| 2 | It 's one like that except a lot smaller with little red berries that grow off it in the spring . |
| 3 | Put any combination of any soft fruits you like into the rumtopf and cover each layer with rum or brandy , so that the fruit is thoroughly soaked , and then forget about it until the winter . |
| 4 | We cry for it in the night , for this perfect union . |
| 5 | Young men leap past us from the roof above , splashing into the water to catch up with their canoes , beer bottles held aloft . |
| 6 | A brilliant officer with more than twenty commendations , he had grown to believe he was omnipotent ; and when Mathews refused to tell him the names of his accomplices , saying it was more than his life was worth , Drury , obsessed with clearing up another case , offered him a deal : make a statement that three men whose names I will give you were your accomplices , testify against them in the witness-box , and in return no charges will be brought against you , and we 'll come to an arrangement about the reward money offered by the Post Office . |
| 7 | While each of the principal lacunae is developing , a tracheal branch and a nerve grow into it from the base of the wing , the lacunae apparently offering the paths of least resistance . |
| 8 | or part of it at leapt , should be united with this parish under one Kirk session , they associate with them as a member of Session . " |
| 9 | ‘ You are a good officer , Merymose , ’ he said at last , ‘ and although I disagree with you about the capability of our Medjays , I respect your judgment . |
| 10 | I suggest to them at the beginning of each session that they will learn about a different existence from any they may already have experienced . |
| 11 | How long do they think the countryside will remain clean after they descend on it like a swarm of locusts with their cars , motorbikes and stereos ? |
| 12 | It 's what they all say to me in the end . |
| 13 | I don I should also say that following a very recent decision er in our submission that 's probably right , that my Lord as I say , I say to you with no joy , this really is desperate and er one can not have , in our submission , in the minds of the jury by inadmissible evidence , the suggestion that yes we have been harbouring this man two days before . |
| 14 | When the little ones squeeze past me in the Superette I give their mops the chaste old tousle . |
| 15 | His head was throbbing and his body was a bruise radiating from a single abscess of pain that cut through him at every step . |
| 16 | Will serving dishes , cutlery , table linen be kept in the kitchen or is there space for them near the dining table ? |
| 17 | Take Nosey and the spare horse , then wait for me at the crossroads . |
| 18 | After that , wait for me at the corner of the street . ’ |
| 19 | He was for going on at once , but I would stay ; so he said he would return to Mullinavat and wait for me in a bar there . |
| 20 | Wait for me in the office . |
| 21 | So the black-backed gulls wait for them in the air in front of the cliffs , wheeling and circling on the up-draught created as the wind , blowing in from the sea , is deflected upwards . |
| 22 | Assignment is a relation in the technical sense , but as it is a unary relation , many readers may feel more at ease if we speak of it as a property ( the two ways of speaking are of course completely inter-convertible ) . |
| 23 | Do n't wither on the sterile sidewalks of Paris , he exhorted , ‘ come and paint with me on the heath , in the potato field , come and walk with me behind the plough and the shepherd , come and sit with me , looking into the fire — let the storm that blows across the heath blow through you . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ If you wish to sit up talking with Claudine , however , or walk with her in the moonlight … ’ |
| 25 | Ice floes circulate with it across the Pole from eastern Siberia toward Ellesmere Island , Greenland , and out into the north Atlantic Ocean , mostly along the east Greenland coast . |
| 26 | Erm so that 's a a whole of responses to this , I think we need to be far more clear in our opposition to this , I think it 's a very dangerous situation it 's one that 's happening across the country , we 're not the only sufferers and I think consortia have been very dangerous things from the beginning , and are leading inextricably to the merger that we we put before us as a proposal tonight , and I think we really should be quite strenuous in our position to it . |
| 27 | And I would rush to the window and look down and see you turning the corner to cross the square below , or walk round it to the hotel door . |
| 28 | You walk to it along the foot of the gorge , through tunnels at one point , and then climb about twelve pitches that are never harder than HVS . |
| 29 | Now calm down , and listen to me for a minute . |
| 30 | ‘ No , Nicolo , you listen to me for a change . |