Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , keel-haul me fer a Spanisher , ’ Susan exclaimed , ‘ ye 're as scurvy a shipment o ’ cut-throats as any that e'er sailed the Main . |
| 2 | Lucy drove , deft competent hands guiding them through the suburbs , Jay lit cigarettes for them both , a secret kiss at the tip of each one ; houses blurred past beyond Lucy 's profile . |
| 3 | A local man had been bullied into guiding them through the treacherous , quaking waste . |
| 4 | Secondly , assistance and information is offered to these firms , guiding them through the planning and development process , and offering advice on a range of issues from education and housing to estate agents and government grants . |
| 5 | As a child , I thought about this a good deal and my father would often invite me to feel the holes in his head — taking my fingers in his hand and guiding them to the slight depressions under his vaselined hair . |
| 6 | I have met women who epitomize the ‘ good mother ’ ; they genuinely love and care for their children and give them a great deal of attention , playing with them and guiding them in a way that most of us feel we can never emulate . |
| 7 | Her brother Jeff was guiding them alongside the jetty now . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , this view was not shared by those who , through no fault of their own , had been charged with the task of guiding me through the mists of ignorance to the sunny uplands of clarity and understanding . |
| 9 | Thou hast been ‘ the cloud ’ before me from the day that I left the flesh-pots of Egypt , and was led through the way of the wilderness — the cloud that hast been guiding me to a land flowing with milk and honey — the milk of innocence , the honey of friendship ! |
| 10 | Hang on a minute — there 's another me in the dream … standing outside in the star-studded night . |
| 11 | Listening to this I on the whole thought that in a real sense he never really quite answered them , on the other hand he made every single person look silly . |
| 12 | Most libraries have wall charts guiding you to the shelf groupings for the major Dewey divisions . |
| 13 | Intervention may be of a befriending nature , offering the person the opportunity to confide , and talk through his emotions , and gently guiding him towards a reassessment of his new position in life without the person he mourns . |
| 14 | When Luke moved her back towards one of the couches , she complied mindlessly , letting him pull her down with him and turning in towards him as he drew her across him , supporting her with one arm while his free hand curved round her , instinct or experience guiding him to the concealed zip of her simple dress . |
| 15 | Joshua 's father , Moishe , the community 's Rabbi , cherished his grandson and would have devoted what was left of his life to guiding him through the intricacies ' of Talmud and Gemara to the Rabbinate if Jacob had shown any vocation . |
| 16 | He can do this by guiding her with a strongly held forearm or firm hand clasp as she sustains a pose . |
| 17 | He took her arm , guiding her across the broad landing towards another door . |
| 18 | He touched her sleeve , guiding her through the doorway . |
| 19 | ‘ Sit down , ’ he repeated , guiding her to a chair . |
| 20 | His arms held her closely , guiding her to the rhythm of the music . |
| 21 | ‘ Come over here and meet the children , Rachel , ’ he said , guiding her to the group . |
| 22 | I say , ‘ Want to try again ? ’ and I rabbit-punch him in the throat . |
| 23 | ‘ Do n't talk rot , ’ said Meredith and , taking him by the arm , frog-marched him along the corridor . |
| 24 | Lewis was tired , and Waqar off-glided him for two and straight-drove him to the pavilion boundary . |
| 25 | The Mail began bingo as an answer to the bingo weapons of the Daily Star and the Sun in their circulation war and they dignified it with the name ‘ Casino ’ , but a heap of dung by any other name still smells the same . |
| 26 | ‘ Er — Jim 's just got to OK it with the boss , ’ he said uncertainly . |
| 27 | I prod it with a fork and brown it on the fire before introducing it to the thick slice of toast . |
| 28 | As to British naval power , the slave trade militated against rather than enhanced it through the high mortality of sailors engaged in it . |
| 29 | But eventually the arguments all boil down to the fact that it is more economic to harvest the rainforest sustainably than clear-fell it in the idiotic way we have been doing until now , and that this is of immense benefit to us , the human species , because of the maintenance of that genetic diversity which will cure all sorts of dreadful diseases in the future . |
| 30 | Mike and I saw a a very young child being washed at a tube well , those guiding us round the site were very impressed by this , the child was rather perplexed and surprised as normally it was taken down to the river to be washed . |