Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The fingers were long , unnaturally thin , the skin on them so clear it seemed he could see right through them to the bone itself .
2 He chatted on about them for the rest of the journey , as she had hoped he would , and she learnt that they could n't be better looked after .
3 ‘ Do n't imagine you can take it out on me because things have not gone right for you at the party .
4 They were stars of the hard left , but we have heard little about them during the election struggle .
5 He says being a little forgiving I could praps forgive them a little for us on the 1952 test , the first , but I ca n't forgive them for what they did to these other lads on the later tests , they must have known something from Nagasaki , Hiroshima and Bikini atoll tests .
6 Mrs Denham refused his offer , and tucked the baby under one arm , and started to drag the blanket she had been sitting on after her into the house .
7 It was good enough for them in the old days , and it will be good enough for them again , especially with THE woman out of the way .
8 No collection of his own papers survives , nor is there much about him in the letters of others .
9 Von Stein had fallen to his knees , and stared dazedly about him at the ruined lab .
10 Wilcox waited impatiently for her at the bottom of the final staircase .
11 I did write it down for her in the list .
12 You wo n't find the answer written down for you in the bowl of a compass — I can tell you that .
13 Smart Drive going in , the new Smart Drive p p presumably it will put my mouse driv my new mouse driver in for me for the day when I want one ?
14 ‘ I was shocked when Scot Gemmill was brought in for me at the start of last season because it came out of the blue .
15 And I 'll volunteer suggested in for me in the paper as a criterion that it also ideally should in my opinion have a the potential for railway connection given the thrust of policy a decade two decades ahead of us .
16 I 'm actually going to go in for it in the Telegraph 's competition , so I may as well use the same team for our one if it gets going .
17 This unique Number 4850158 has been selected especially for you in the latest by invitation-only Hospital Plan Cash Match Prize Draw .
18 see Exod. 14 : 28 , ‘ And the waters returned , and covered the chariots , and the horsemen , even all the host of Pharaoh that went in after them into the sea ; there remained not so much as one of them ’ .
19 A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour .
20 There was once in the olden days a giant who lived on Penhill who had all below him in the dale in his thrall .
21 And think better of me in the future ! ’
22 Now he came into the dining-room where I was working and sat down opposite me at the table .
23 She sat down opposite him at the kitchen table and fixed him with the kind of look that usually preceded a full eighteen-round contest .
24 On the other hand , what Alcuin has to say must be set beside the respect accorded Aelfwald 's memory at Hexham where the king was buried ( ASC D , s.a. 788 ) , which shows that the community at Hexham thought highly of him in the twelfth century and probably earlier .
25 As he did this a Maltese feller started striding slowly but purposefully towards us from the back of the club .
26 Only the line of grim cages among whose bars whined the winter wind , and above them the great plane trees that bent across the sky , their leafless branches bending in the wind like twisted hands that came down towards him from the angry sky .
27 Looking down below them from the top , they saw that a small crater with the remains of a dried-up lake in it was emitting sulphurous vapours from several points .
28 He 's come round to both our Joe and our Tamar and , heaven knows , he was bitter enough against them at the start . ’
29 I know no touch of consanguinity — No kin , no love , no blood , no soul so near me As the sweet Troilus .
30 He trailed along behind her through the sand dunes , along the edge of the tidal salt marsh .
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