Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [indef pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't want to appear awkward , ’ said Lili that evening , ‘ but she looks like something the cat dragged in . ’ |
| 2 | Just just scrappy old blue looks like something the art college has knocked up . |
| 3 | Speed and mcalllister would hang around outside the Cov penalty area and snatch onto anything the Cov tried to clear . |
| 4 | Place three cups on a table , one upwards and two downwards , and say to everyone the game is to turn over two cups at once so that cups the right way up are turned upside down and vice versa . |
| 5 | But the comrades were prepared for everything the class enemy could throw at them . |
| 6 | It did n't smell like something the colonel would use , so she guessed it was Leo 's , and for some silly reason that made her feel vulnerable , as though she 'd lost her identity . |
| 7 | ‘ She goes round looking like something the cat dragged in . ’ |
| 8 | The rest of the group hardly moved as if absorbed in everything the coroner said or did . |
| 9 | This year the IRA has killed two people in Belfast compared to none the previous year . |
| 10 | You look like something the cat brought in . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You look like something the cat 's dragged in . ’ |
| 12 | You look like somethin' the goat would n't rut with … ‘ |
| 13 | It requires government to speak with one voice , to act in a principled and coherent manner to ward all its citizens , to extend to everyone the substantive standards of justice or fairness it uses for some . |
| 14 | His successors of whatever party will not be bound by anything the Noble Earl may say this afternoon , it is inconceivable that a Home Secretary in five or ten years time , also what Lord say in February nineteen ninety four , I really must n't do whatever er I thought of doing in er that given the fact that the Noble Earl Lord gave certain assurances , he will do whatever he considers on that occasion to be right |
| 15 | And the Serbs do not want to share with anyone the territory they win . |
| 16 | He 's forgotten to mention , by some slip of the memory , the one fact about the pits which is known to everyone the impurity of the air breathed by the pitmen ! |
| 17 | Never in her entire life had she spoken to anyone the way she had just spoken to Nathan Bryce . |
| 18 | This curious conclusion set at nought the work on distribution done by Brown , Humboldt , Darwin and Wallace , and by the botanists Joseph Hooker of Kew and Asa Gray of Harvard ; they had found all sorts of curious patterns , of which it seemed possible to make sense in terms of migrations , barriers and ice ages . |
| 19 | So the teacher of a blind child , while allowing all along in the child 's education for the difficulties he encounters , still prefers to emphasise to everyone the sameness of the child ( his skills and achievements ) . |
| 20 | Quality is the most important factor since your brickwork will be exposed to everything the elements can throw at it . |
| 21 | Isolated in this small square well in the deck , they were exposed to anything the elements cared to throw at them . |
| 22 | Now , on top of everything else , she looked like something the cat had dragged in , and she had n't even brought a change of clothes with her , having planned to return to the Sheffield hotel to collect her luggage and settle her bill at a time when the actors would be at the theatre . |
| 23 | It was that big show trial everybody charged with everything the Bologna train station bombing Moro 's murder you remember it … |
| 24 | Because catalogues are typically run by someone the mother knows , they can also link a mother to the networks beyond her home ( Cohen , 1991a ) . |
| 25 | If the pain which he had whenever he had anything the matter with his finger had always been a throbbing pain , and the pain caused by anything the matter with any other part of his body had never been a throbbing pain , then now , on experiencing a throbbing pain , he would naturally associate it with his finger . |
| 26 | In return , MIPS promised to pay for everything the ACE loyalists , largely the die-hards in the old Unix SVR4-loving Apache Group , needed for an independent software vendor recruitment drive : all the machines , all the binaries , all the technical support . |
| 27 | If a carer moves into a rented house to care for someone the right to succeed to the tenancy on the death of the tenant is lost ( Schedule 6 para 3 ) unless the care has lasted at least 5 years ( formerly 6 months was the qualifying period ) . |
| 28 | HCI CLUB HOLIDAYS Hotels , Villages & Apartments in the Mediterranean & Canaries SPECIAL OFFERS SEE CLUB PAGES FOR DETAILS HOLIDAYS THAT THINK ABOUT EVERYBODY The Club Holiday Division of HORIZON |
| 29 | I also suggested that he go and live in San Francisco for six months , where he might see for himself and in practice the ideal which Jesus Christ was talking about , which is far removed from anything the Church of England ever practises in this country . |
| 30 | His Majesty appealed to him as a Statesman and as one who had been a Minister of the Crown to place before everything the present dangerous situation of the country , Sir Herbert replied that he and his party were just as patriotic as the Conservatives : the country would be in far greater danger from Tariffs — price of food stuffs would rise , there would be strikes and outbreaks all over the country . |