Example sentences of "[adv] of [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was , it appears , neither rapacious nor peremptory , no ‘ for kicks ’ , no ‘ wham bam , thank you , mam ! ’ — he tried to make sure both of them enjoyed the time ; and he was fun . |
| 2 | It begins with John Helm of Yorkshire TV introducing the speakers : Helm : Right , gentlemen , we have n't won a championship title since 1967 , but both of you know the rules — three falls or one submission and any knockdown and the one still standing retires to a neutral corner . |
| 3 | By what I can gather they must have lived in Durham for a time , 'cos when she was saying her prayers she brought in a Mrs Melburn , a parson 's wife , who was kind to them after the father died or whatever , an' from what I made out of her jabbering the woman and the mother have written to each other . |
| 4 | Cars began to draw up amid the rubble and whole families , 60 or 70 people in all , climbed out of them to view the silent barricade . |
| 5 | Out of it came the British Aircraft Corporation ( an amalgamation of Vickers and English Electric ) with the design contract , and Bristol-Siddeley with the responsibility for the development of the Olympus engine . |
| 6 | The man who got out of it left the headlights full on and the engine running . |
| 7 | It was the most delicate shade of creamy blue and out of it floated the masts and superstructures of fishing boats , riding silently at anchor . |
| 8 | but he used , instead of him buying the wood or getting me to give him the money for the wood , he cannibalized the fucking wardrobes and used the sides and the |
| 9 | Ahead of him stretched the future , and this time , instead of a summer landscape full of lush green fields , it suddenly took on a closed and wintry air . |
| 10 | As the camera pans left with this tennis player it is aimed slightly ahead of him to balance the shot by allowing ‘ walking room ’ . |
| 11 | Ahead of them lay the Nile , bathed in mist , like a white sea ; behind them lay the dark desert , like a petrified purple ocean . |
| 12 | They had reached the end of the ferry jetties and ahead of them lay the tightly-knit bulk of the town , its few colours beige , dun , ochre , brown and white — flattened by the sunlight . |
| 13 | Ahead of her glittered the tracks of Frere 's previous solitary excursion . |
| 14 | Ahead of us towered the great octagonal bastions of Shah Jehan 's Lahore Gate , an impregnable wall of solid sandstone overlaid by some restrained detailing : blind arcades of cusped arches , a delicate jharokha , and a pair of carved lotus flowers floating on the sandstone spandrels of the great horseshoe arch . |
| 15 | Today we all have access to the speed , warmth and comfort of cars , buses , trains and planes , if that is we have the money , if there is a service running when we want it to where we want to go and if there is n't already so much traffic ahead of us choking the roads , polluting the atmosphere that we wished we stayed at home . |