Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he was sure the shop assistants would know what he wanted them for from the way he asked . |
| 2 | That 's what he bought them for in the first place . ’ |
| 3 | Not that syrupy old Whatsisname you told me about at the beginning … |
| 4 | I put three pounds to win on a horse in the two-fifty , and then five pounds to win on the ‘ dead cert ’ this fellow had told me about in the three-fifteen or three-twenty — something like that . ’ |
| 5 | By the way , I 've brought all my clothes downstairs , and I 've hung yours up in the cupboard in the bedroom . |
| 6 | Some novelist went up to a critic last night and thanked him for a review he wrote on a novel of his in about the year 1900 and congratulated him because he got it right . |
| 7 | Even the Dutch , who colonized the nation longer than any other Western power , were more interested in trading posts than in exploration , and vested their authority in the local chieftains who in turn vested theirs on down the line so that a great many Indonesians have still never seen a European . |
| 8 | she were , she were helping to make tea and , I do n't know how she , how it came , but she said granddad , I thought oh something 's coming now I says what ? , she said if I came to stay with you , she said after Richard 's you know sale , if I came to stay with you for at the weekend shall I have to go in that |
| 9 | British Rail have nothing to report and I 've no problems to tell you about on the local buses either . |
| 10 | ‘ Who were you with at the Lyric ? |
| 11 | ‘ Is that the wench I met you with in the High Street ? |
| 12 | She lives in Beith where she in on the committee of the Earl Haig Fund Charity . |
| 13 | In such matters it is the most obvious things which are the most important and which stare at you from under the nose without being perceived . |
| 14 | I 've been watching you from over the wall . |
| 15 | Weirdest of all is the studio , in which a Madame Tussaud 's waxwork stares out of the half-light at you from behind the control-room glass . |
| 16 | Well if they take you on on the basis that you do n't have to work Sundays , they ca n't change the regulations when you 're working . |
| 17 | It an add-in exists to solve your specific problem , we will undertake to find it for you to at the best price . |
| 18 | We have chosen to look at these through the medium of Palatine Ales , the company we introduced you to in the previous case . |
| 19 | But if i see you at towards the end of the And the packs are all labelled , it 's very |
| 20 | Duke of York 's , this is , and you re in the London Irish Rifles . ’ |
| 21 | Then — just linger over your coffee and liqueurs and watch the stars come out ( maybe you 'll catch a falling one ! ) — or if you re in the mood , follow your ears ( you 'll be hard pressed not to ! ) and make your way to one of the liveliest and most action-packed nightclubs this side of Manhattan — Sango 's Place ! |
| 22 | forcing them onto onto the onto the |
| 23 | It was partly about fairs but mainly about Theme Parks , which is what big business has made them into in the US and what they are becoming here . |
| 24 | I was listening to the end bit , I was saying what were we about at the end . |
| 25 | She called out to me from across the room . |
| 26 | A large blonde girl waved at me from across the room , spilling a large part of her drink down the back of another woman 's dress at the same time . |
| 27 | It 's starting to get dark — a small bright star twinkles cheekily at me from between the chimneys . |
| 28 | I opened the conservatory door to slip out to my bedroom the back way and noticed a pair of eyes peering at me from behind the rubber plant in the far corner , distorted by the old glass . |
| 29 | I thought about leaving a few of Simon 's visiting cards around , or suggesting they all get together and build a glider in the loft , but then I saw the frosty-eyed Matron in a blue uniform and matching hair rinse clocking me from behind the desk . |
| 30 | On the right hand side , you come out and on to the patio , you could get them from down the garden there . |