Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 2 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 3 | He seizes him and disposes of him in the river like the previous three bodies , and finally gets his pay , the wife being all the more glad for having got rid of her repugnant husband . |
| 4 | The fly , which has settled on my forehead and reads to me from the Sixth Book of the Aeneid , is the same fly which buzzes round the head of Virgil in Mantua . |
| 5 | In this way we acclimatised them to the sights , sounds and smells around them in the barn . |
| 6 | The owner says he will sell at that price , but only if Fred collects the car and pays for it within the next 2 hours . |
| 7 | His son , Guillaume de Sescas , esquire ( douzet ) recognized that he was a liegeman and military tenant of Albret in July 1309 , holding land and tithes from him in the Bazadais , and owing him service , counsel and loyalty in perpetuity . |
| 8 | ‘ Stephen 's determined to open a hotel chain and listens to me about the same amount . ’ |
| 9 | Lamech takes two wives , and boasts to them of the murder he has committed , outdoing Cain . |
| 10 | Certainly my own identikit picture of the classic nasty old git a Tory faces is about 68 , wears a string vest and the trousers of an old suit , bears remnants of a tattoo on one shoulder and comes at you from the door of a council house with an unkempt garden in Mansfield , waving a stick and blaspheming mightily . |
| 11 | In the human home , the tame cat retains its infant vocalizations right through into adulthood and improves on them in the process . |