Example sentences of "and [vb base] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Rodie heard of what happened , she went up to Sam 's room and comforted him enough to bring him downstairs and sit with them on the terrace . |
| 2 | And then I used to get on to the dray and sit beside him on the box and then we 'd go as far as Road , which is quite a stretch and I used o walk back . |
| 3 | Rachel kneels behind me whispering in my ear , ‘ You never told me about Jancey ’ and I tell her she 's just the woman next door and Rachel says , ‘ Oh yeah ? ’ and I push her onto her back and sit astride her in the dark . |
| 4 | ( a ) Meetings and their conduct Whatever may have been agreed as to the taking of decisions by unanimous or majority vote , as much a matter of good management as of good faith is the need to ensure that all relevant information is given to all the partners before a vote is taken : the requisite majority of partners should not purport to take decisions and act on them behind the backs of the minority unless such has been expressly authorised or the need for immediate action precludes the convening of a partners ' meeting ; and even then there should be no delay before all partners are acquainted with the circumstances and invited to ratify any decision taken in their name . |
| 5 | The issue is even more complicated in the world of sound recording , because we can not pick up a record and listen to it in the same way that we can pick up a book and read it . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Ezek. 22.30 — ‘ I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before Me in the gap on behalf of the land so that I would not have to destroy it , but I found none . ’ |
| 8 | He would have had to drive to the farm , learn of Mungo 's destination from Alice , and trudge after him across the fields . |
| 9 | Listen for them on radio and television and look for them in the newspaper . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | All the same , if we turn the figures about and look at them from the point of view of the older generation themselves , we still find that in early modern England only 10 per cent of sixty-year-olds were living with their married children or grandchildren . |
| 12 | He saw his son sit up , lean forward and look at him with the wary expression that irritated him so much . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When parents relate to their children as if they were partners and look to them for the support and even sexual comfort that should come from other adults , the boundary surrounding and protecting childhood is broken . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | One Small Step is building a laboratory that will help keep many children from lives spent in a wheelchair … please help to make this possible for our kids and run for them in the next London Marathon . |
| 18 | One Small Step is building a laboratory that will help keep many children from lives spent in a wheelchair … please help to make this possible for our kids and run for them in the next London Marathon . |
| 19 | Sometimes she would stand in front of Sarah and stare at her in the most curious way , saying nothing . |
| 20 | They 're all being so ridiculously polite that you begin to consider the option of using ‘ fuck off ’ as your opening line to these people who nod and bow and smile at you despite the fact that they are merely passing by . |
| 21 | He put a hand to his cheek and saw Angie 's reflected image float up and drift towards him from the garden . |
| 22 | Hold it over you tightly and roll in it on the floor . |
| 23 | Both Mr Megrahi and Mr Fhima told me they would be happy to meet Scottish or American investigators and talk to them about the case . ’ |
| 24 | Greet the wise one , and talk to them of the fears that you wish to overcome . |
| 25 | For she would carry on with her chores and talk to them at the same time . |
| 26 | When snow many feet deep blankets the land and the lake is covered with ice , the beavers are able to swim out from their lodge beneath the ice , retrieve the green branches and feed on them throughout the winter . |
| 27 | Together these two essays are an attempt to construct the theoretical basis for an alternative to positivistic scholarships , an alternative that will deal with the specifically literary properties of texts , and deal with them with the same degree of objectivity and rigour as scholarship has traditionally claimed . |
| 28 | Seaweed presses beautifully , but needs a slightly different technique , so take it back to your hotel or villa and deal with it in the bathroom ! |
| 29 | I 'll have to spirit you away to my cave , and dispose of you on the white-slave market , just like wicked old Hasan . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |