Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank goodness I had my knickers on at the time ! |
| 2 | I let the money slip through my fingers on to the floor . |
| 3 | I took my skis back to the shop next morning , realising that perhaps the marginal snowbridges and crevasses of the Argentiere glacier were not an ideal nursery . |
| 4 | But when I pack my skis back into the hall cupboard behind the vacuum cleaner , I want my hills unsullied by pylons and snow fences . |
| 5 | I daresay you were right , I should n't have brushed my teeth out of the tap . ’ |
| 6 | I dumped the carrier with my groceries down beside the road , and set off across the moor . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll be the first to pull my kids out of the school if this curriculum is introduced , ’ says Anna Saez , parent association head of the Elmhurst public school . |
| 8 | I used to tap dance , high kick , do splits , pull my legs up at the back of my head . |
| 9 | I was thinking , oh yeah I 'll just chop my legs off at the knee shall I ? |
| 10 | ‘ I got my legs out of the way and curled up in a ball on the driver 's seat . |
| 11 | I sat alone in a compartment , coming to terms with the fact that I was free at last and if I wanted to put my feet up on the opposite seat or take off my tie , no one in uniform had the right to bustle in and call me Airwoman in that well-known disapproving voice . |
| 12 | I swung my feet up on the desk and lay back in the chair . |
| 13 | ‘ Thank you for bringing my feet down to the ground . |
| 14 | I drew my feet out of the water . |
| 15 | I thought of nothing other than dragging my feet out of the mud encasing them . |
| 16 | I became an expert at putting my rollers on in the dark and listening to the Top Twenty under the sheets . |
| 17 | ‘ I just this minute took my cakes out of the oven . |
| 18 | Seaweed and my parents back from the dead and objects come alive and sort of leer at me and sometimes I joyfully feel as if I 'm going to sink to the bottom of the ocean forever , but I wake up and then I do n't know what 's real . |
| 19 | I estimated that perhaps fifteen minutes ' fishing would salve my honour , and not expecting to catch anything , I let the wind flag my flies out over the water . |
| 20 | When he realised that the trousers hovered round his calves and that the shirt did n't do up it was too late ; I had put on my newer , better-fitting shirt , bloused my trousers on to the tops of my boots and was putting on his beret as he stood there looking like a circus tramp . |
| 21 | ‘ That I 'm able to offer specially designed , hand-painted tiling lifts my kitchens out of the ordinary and helps me to market them . |
| 22 | ‘ I first started writing songs when I was about 14 , because I knew that the first song I 'd put down would be so crap I thought I 'd get all my ideas out of the way first , and then I 'd start getting all artistic , ’ explains Tony . |
| 23 | " Will you meet me , Tom ? " she was saying as she bent over him , " when I 'll have my scones out for the tea . " |
| 24 | I went upstairs and put my suitcase on the bed and took my things out of the drawers . |
| 25 | Malleson carried my things down to the other block under his greatcoat and I followed him down the path about twenty yards behind . |
| 26 | I put my things down on the big table and sat down , shrugging . |
| 27 | ‘ If I had spoken to anyone properly about how I felt after Hungerford , ’ he says , ‘ I 'm sure I would not have turned my problems over to the bottle . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I am always sending my producers off to the BBC music library , telling them to seek a breadth of listening : let's be adventurous , dangerous and interesting . ’ |
| 29 | I shoved my dreams back into the bag — no time to zip it up — and went after him . |
| 30 | I turned from my contemplation of the inclement evening and eased my buttocks on to the warm radiator beneath the window . |