Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's one like that except a lot smaller with little red berries that grow off it in the spring . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | We cry for it in the night , for this perfect union . |
4 | Young men leap past us from the roof above , splashing into the water to catch up with their canoes , beer bottles held aloft . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | It 's what they all say to me in the end . |
10 | When the little ones squeeze past me in the Superette I give their mops the chaste old tousle . |
11 | Will serving dishes , cutlery , table linen be kept in the kitchen or is there space for them near the dining table ? |
12 | Take Nosey and the spare horse , then wait for me at the crossroads . |
13 | After that , wait for me at the corner of the street . ’ |
14 | Wait for me in the office . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . ’ |
17 | ‘ If you wish to sit up talking with Claudine , however , or walk with her in the moonlight … ’ |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | We listen to them in the car . |
22 | He even had the amplitude to take a glass of port with Mr Joseph Robinson and talk as well as listen to him about the Battle of the Nile . |
23 | Just the same as you can accept the fact that somebody says to you that I can not really afford your windows , right , just the same as when you first speak to them on the phone , you can say oh sorry , sorry to bother you and put the phone down because it said you |
24 | You speak to me like the stepbrother speaks to all the family . |
25 | I speak to her on the phone almost every day and she 's really important to me . ’ |
26 | So when your managers speak to you at the beginning of a er of your Monday morning meeting to say Gerald how much business have you got landed for next week you can say with conviction , two , two definite cases . |
27 | sit near her on the bus-bench |
28 | ‘ I read about it at the time , but I heard none of the details . |
29 | I read about you in the evening paper . |
30 | Participants of the ladder league are also invited to enter the special k.o. competitions run for them throughout the year . |