Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That makes me a bit peeved , you know : we can serve them , but not mingle with them on the other side . |
| 2 | I build to it during the lost-in-the-wood speech and then it starts a bit uncertainly and then they really get it and it hits the show like a trumpet solo . |
| 3 | Martha shook her head , feeling tiredness descend on her like the low cloud on the mountains , muffling all her emotions . |
| 4 | Johnson found little support among them for the reformist policies of the government of the day . |
| 5 | But then — if we are taking our time and stay to look at the town as a whole , walk around it in the cool and quiet of the evening when the shops are shut , and the traffic has gone home , and we can really see its contours and its bone-structure — other questions begin to arise in the mind , which even the best of guide-books does not answer . |
| 6 | When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often . |
| 7 | During the summer months hordes of visitors regularly congregate there to eat and drink at their leisure on the paved terrace between the mellow sandstone walls of the inn itself and the river 's edge , where many sit on the low stone parapet and look below them through the clear , greenish water at the mottled dark-brown and silvery backs of the carp that rise to the surface to snap up the crisps and the crusts thrown down to them . |
| 8 | I look upon him as the authentic voice of the Labour party , and I want him to be heard . |
| 9 | It is quite usual to seek translation in tables of regnal years such as those printed in the more common reference books without , perhaps , recognising the historical significance of the system or the traps which lie within it for the unwary . |
| 10 | Although this involves the use of rather advanced techniques compared with the running of simple transfers and dubs , many enthusiasts believe that this type of editing is essential to the making of ‘ real ’ movies , and look on it as the key creative element in their video activities . |
| 11 | Then , picking up a rifle that had been give to me by the French Commandos , I joined the others , lining up in the darkness at the edge of the wood preparing to move off . |
| 12 | Look at him with the bloody roll in the window ! |
| 13 | He saw his son sit up , lean forward and look at him with the wary expression that irritated him so much . |
| 14 | 1989 , The Year Of The Microscope ( to Jan ) Largest ever collection of working microscopes on public display ; the public are invited to bring along their own specimens and look at them through the different microscopes . |
| 15 | The problems of crofting may be insoluble in terms of practical politics , but , if we look at them in the right way , we may find that they themselves are a resource . |
| 16 | I look around me at the massed ranks of Lowestoftians , their vacant faces bearing mute witness to the devastation the town has wrought on their limbic systems . |
| 17 | well you drive through it on the main road and it goes both sides of the road |
| 18 | You get to it from the cliff-top . ’ |
| 19 | I notice I refer to him in the past tense . |
| 20 | It is the students who refer to it as the black magic course . |
| 21 | ‘ Experts refer to it as the post-modernistic simulacrum , although I believe Knudsen himself thinks of it as fantasy realism , ’ he returned blandly . |
| 22 | He would lead me through small flocks of goats , or to where the traffic was worst , and then briefly hide from me in the narrow alley-ways or the open shops . |
| 23 | Yes you normally pay for it in the following year . |
| 24 | I 'll have to spirit you away to my cave , and dispose of you on the white-slave market , just like wicked old Hasan . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Of course we rejoice with you , we rejoice with you to the full . |
| 26 | We talk to him about the inner turmoil he had been feeling during his long drought and about his high hopes for the future . |
| 27 | I looked towards the chateau entrance and saw Queen Poison , dreadful as an army in battle array , sweep towards me across the lowered drawbridge , arms extended as if she wished to clasp me to her deceitful bosom . |
| 28 | Films like dreams come and go and are soon forgotten , yet King Kong , which I must have seen in 1933 , or early 1934 , with its scenes of adventure in a fabled land , was the one to overwhelm my mind and stay with me to the present day . |
| 29 | I do n't need to erm elaborate much more Okay , the give it , give it a mechanical structure , well that does n't necessarily apply to some of the things that we 've done but it does to other parts and if you 're gon na discuss somebody 's model , think about it in the real world . |
| 30 | I think of them as the sea-bird equivalent of a peregrine or other member of the falcon family . |