Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this period she herds stray animals to her seashore cave , where she feeds them during the cold months . |
| 2 | As a single woman living with her uncle , the negligent landlord Mr Brooke , Dorothea has good reason to concern herself with cottages , although she intends them for the estate of the obliging Sir James , having presumably abandoned her uncle as a hopeless case . |
| 3 | But I 'm sure that once she joins you in the pool she will find it easy enough to slip into the flow of things . |
| 4 | He 's mad on polo so he takes me to the Hurlingham Club to watch him play . |
| 5 | He worries that the children would be upset when they saw it , so he rubs it off the wall . |
| 6 | Committees are a waste of time , so he deletes them from the diary . |
| 7 | His room key and tag feel bulky in his pocket so he leaves them on the table with his newspaper before visiting the well assorted buffet table . |
| 8 | No you ca n't throw it you have to like jump on it like that and you go weee and it , and if , and if someone gets you on the hips you have to throw it to everybody . |
| 9 | If somebody bonks you on the |
| 10 | Many of them just lie there helplessly until somebody manhandles them over the side of the boat . |
| 11 | ‘ She 'll cast a spell on you if she sees you in the wood , ’ Kay warned . |
| 12 | The customer always matters and is never a nuisance — even if she interrupts you in the middle of doing something else . |
| 13 | Especially not if she puts them by the bed . ’ |
| 14 | Furthermore , if anybody catches you in the club showers , your lover is very likely to end up being blackballed ( if you 'll forgive the phrase ) . |
| 15 | a shop-assistant has possession of money paid to him by a customer until he puts it in the till . |
| 16 | ‘ Give us a couple o' bob an' I 'll come up the stairs an' carry the bloody fing dawn , even if it kills me in the process . |
| 17 | If it sells it to the Third World , it destroys local economies . |
| 18 | If it wakes him in the night , he gets angry , I 've heard him , not the actual words , just the voice low and terrible . |
| 19 | And what 's the point of a journey that seems very pleasant if it gets you to the wrong place ! |
| 20 | But it will prove to be a necessary and worthwhile one if it leads us in the direction of a less doctrinaire and therefore more properly educational form of antiracism . |
| 21 | If he refers it to the Court of Appeal , Courtney may well spend a proper period in jail . |
| 22 | If he treats her from the beginning like a woman , elderly perhaps , but still entitled to every courtesy and consideration and some of his undivided attention , and if she treats him with affection and interest , voicing her pride in his achievements , and turning to him for advice on various matters , their relationship is usually off to a good start . |
| 23 | Mr Gergen will best serve his new boss if he reminds him of the strengths of one of his old ones . |
| 24 | Except in a case to which Ord 11 , r 4(2) applies , the plaintiff is entitled to have the accepted sum paid out to him without any order of the court , if he accepts it within the time limited by the rule ( Ord 11 , r 4(1) ) . |
| 25 | It 'll be interesting to see if he makes it into the team . |
| 26 | I think it 's unfair to anybody to show up with a tape recorder and ask them on the spot cos it puts them on the spot . |
| 27 | It will also handle both little and big endian byte ordering so as to be able to run personal computer operating systems such as Windows NT as well as Unix , although the company denied that it had any plans to support NT on it — the capability is simply there if anyone wants it in the future , the company said . |
| 28 | I see no cause for alarm unless it does it during the day , or shows signs of sickness . |
| 29 | Unless he lays it behind the garage . |
| 30 | ‘ We need him as president because it takes him off the streets , ’ said his close pal , David Leopoulis . |