Example sentences of "the [adj] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Carnival , 1925 , when I was 10 , Sam had first bought us large ice-creams and had decided , before going into the circus , to take the three of us to the menageries ( at an extra cost of two pence , if I remember right ) . |
| 2 | Perhaps if you wish to add questions , it might be helpful if you could circulate them amongst the 4 of us before the 26th . |
| 3 | Anthony Quinn 's Mexican/Irish temper got the better of him on the day he married Katherine De Mille , daughter of the director Cecil B De Mille . |
| 4 | They both took lookout positions on opposite sides of the roof , and although Charlie could still hear the sound of the battle , he was quite unable to make out who was getting the better of it on the other side of the forest . |
| 5 | Hopefully it will do the same for me in the Welsh mountains , and enable me to walk onto specific grid bearings and find some ancient markers . |
| 6 | She said , ‘ You know , they say you 've done the dirty on us in the Council . ’ |
| 7 | I can hear the two of them on the narrow stair outside , Summerchild placing his feet with ostentatious care on each step , bending his head rather further than is strictly necessary under the low ceiling , while Serafin demonstrates his effortless familiarity with such picturesque difficulties . |
| 8 | The dream that had brought the two of them to the other side of the globe was wedging a distance between them . |
| 9 | ‘ We did a tour with Mitch and we also did a tour with Buddy Miles , but we 've never had the two of them in the same room together . |
| 10 | Anyhow , there was not space for the two of them in the attic for ever . |
| 11 | The dislocation happened and he saw this stout , handsomely dressed man , almost gasping m front of a pale-eyed , pale-faced clergyman , the two of them in the consecrated atmosphere of a church which could trace back its foundation on that spot through about thirteen hundred years . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't see what I did different , ’ he said , facing front to inspect the two of them in the mirror and then turning round to have a look from the side . |
| 13 | Cassie left the two of them in the sitting room and hurried into the kitchen to prepare the coffee . |
| 14 | Something she said , perhaps Matey 's name , the lack of privacy for the two of them in the small house , although they had both kept their voices low , stopped him . |
| 15 | So Leith left the two of them in the kitchen and found a few tidying-up jobs to do in the dining-room . |
| 16 | I put the two of them in the cage , they went in the cage and they , oh and they get on alright together . |
| 17 | Of course I 'll get the restaurant to cater , but I want it to be intimate — just the two of us on the balcony . |
| 18 | Things have not been quite the same between the two of us since the business with the vacuum cleaner in the cellar . |
| 19 | Then I skipped the part she says yes and goes and gets her things and all and pictured the two of us in the coach again . |
| 20 | Oh the two of us in the tree ? |
| 21 | It was an evening of blissful happiness for Jack 's brother , a return to boyhood , those beloved ‘ Malvern days when it was just the two of us against the P'daytabird ’ . |
| 22 | In any case , why should it want the two of you in the same orbit ? ’ |
| 23 | I said if yo if you think you know that you might be able to build a relationship I said then er you know , tell her so I said and do n't try and run the both of them at the same time I said |
| 24 | 4 Make a rough diagram of your design and determine whether it is appropriate to the size of the site , e.g. a herb border on the grand scale will not be successful in an area 3 x 3 metres ( 10 x 10 ft ) ; in other words the proportions of the design should be such that there is room to make the most of them in the area concerned . |