Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It seemed that all the intelligence had gone to Constance , leaving her brothers with only wariness and guile to see them through the vicissitudes of life , although , Scarlet had to admit , they could be surprisingly kind . |
| 32 | Frequently , all that they will have to guide them through the recommendations of officials will be their own political common sense ; this may well be adequate for a strong minister , but others may find it hard to change the bureaucracy 's course . |
| 33 | The result was a peerage granted by William and Mary in 1689 , when he had helped them through the troubles surrounding the deposition of James II . |
| 34 | Sieve them through the mouli having first strained off surplus liquid which would make the fool watery . |
| 35 | As the leaves grow , train them through the bars for a lovely effect . |
| 36 | The books draw on the experiences of Christians in Guatemala , whose faith has strengthened and supported them through the hardships and challenges of recent years . |
| 37 | Dulé was to slip into the sea , then , binding the container of burning pitch to his head with a deep cushioning of reeds in between to prevent him getting burned , he would swim to the ship , gouge a hole in the hull with his knife and , taking dry tinder from a companion swimming alongside him , light spills from the fire and pass them through the walls of the ship , then slip back under the cover of the mangroves and lie in wait for the panic . |
| 38 | Yet God still speaks by his Spirit to throw fresh light on his word so that we might see its relevance to the contemporary world , and he speaks to his servants to guide them through the perplexities of life . |
| 39 | She took two pills from a bottle by the bed on which she had thrown herself and crushed them between the pages of Mansfield Park . |
| 40 | ‘ I 'll press them and keep them between the pages of a book , to remind me of you . ’ |
| 41 | Drain the raisins and scatter them between the slices . |
| 42 | The usual sausages and spuds had been brought to them between the shows . |
| 43 | Weather permitting , the big helicopters will place them between the flows and the town . |
| 44 | ‘ And in a building that stood ten or twelve paces from the place where they were beheaded , one after the other like sheep ’ , wrote a Spanish historian , ‘ was Pedrarias , watching them between the canes which formed the walls of his house … ‘ |
| 45 | They would n't recognize it if it hit them between the eyes , of its use . |
| 46 | She 'd pull them off the stalks . |
| 47 | I mean last week the choppers werny even gettin in to pick them off the Rigs what with the gales and that so basically I 've just got to expect him when I see him . |
| 48 | He says charity shops should be allowed to sell second hand toys as they 've always done and the legislation which took them off the shelves was wrongly framed and should be scrapped . |
| 49 | Unlike the back-to-backs and the tenements built for the poor in the nineteenth century , which treated the poor like prostitutes — they 'll always be with us , but at least keep them off the streets — their function was to take the streetwise communities off the streets and clean up the gregarious clamour of the slum-dwellers . |
| 50 | ‘ They wanted to see them off the streets . ’ |
| 51 | He says that that it 's a good way of introducing youngsters to trials riding , as well as keeping them off the streets . |
| 52 | Now a police truant squad is out to take them off the streets . |
| 53 | ‘ They have to be tougher than the average kid , I do n't like losers , but once they 're into boxing it takes them off the streets , away from the drugs and alcohol , ’ said Lol , 57 . |
| 54 | ah look after your children , keep them off the streets blah , blah , blah |
| 55 | Keeps them off the streets does n't it ? |
| 56 | ‘ Keep them off the boats ! ’ cried the doctor . |
| 57 | Well maybe they 've not been so they give them so long and then they cross them off the books do n't they ? |
| 58 | He described a life so different from my own that I could not have imagined it — ‘ She loved me for the dangers I had passed , and I loved her , that she did pity them . ’ |
| 59 | ‘ God forgive me for the thoughts I just thought . ’ |
| 60 | After a chase on foot of over three miles he had finally run out of puff and offered to fight me for the goods . |