Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [coord] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was for nothing but to counter the parallel sky , and I found it mystical in its impracticality . |
| 2 | Incidentally , much of the success of direct mail lies in the fact that , apart from bills , most of the population get no mail at all and people are delighted to get a letter that expresses interest in them , concern about them and opens the door for further contact and involvement . |
| 3 | I turn over and pretend I 'm still asleep but she pulls the duvet off me and switches the lights on . |
| 4 | I would have loved to have swung the sodding bag and hit him straight in the balls but the old tight-fist snatched it off me and threw the gold on to the hall floor so he could watch his courtiers scramble . |
| 5 | It was nothing for him to take the ball off them and stick the knife in it to burst it . ’ |
| 6 | An annual employee profile is issued to each employee showing the information held about him/her and giving the employee the opportunity to make known any inaccuracies . |
| 7 | Toby had n't had time to try the ‘ exclusive ’ story on the dirty mac brigade and they clustered about me and shouted the usual obvious questions . |
| 8 | MAN-MADE membranes that allow some charged molecules ( ions ) to pass through them but prevent the passage of others are important components of many medical and technological systems . |
| 9 | So I think for the time being , if you allow us , we will find out which tables we want and then we will fund raise for them and get the money for them , okay . |
| 10 | The Soviets fed some disinformation back to us about the meetings with ‘ Nikolai ’ , hinting that Mills was working for them and using the meetings to pass information across . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ See , ’ the girl said proudly , ‘ these flowers made of gems , I created the pattern for them and designed the slippers in such a way that the amethysts would be shown to the best advantage . ’ |
| 12 | The Girls were most impressed when Mary bought a Daimler and employed a chauffeur so they in turn bought a car between them and shared the running costs . |
| 13 | They stripped the bed between them and carried the sheets downstairs . |
| 14 | Only Rodrigo now stood between them and prevented the whole of Moslem Spain from reverting to independent Moorish rule . |
| 15 | We needed to find a balance between them and help the regions to help themselves . ’ |
| 16 | The four students and the staff work out the running of the household between them and share the responsibilities . |
| 17 | However , to elucidate the differences between them and to indicate the potential for increased co-operation and co-ordination it is useful to define these terms which are often used imprecisely and interchangeably . |
| 18 | When he had recovered , he picked up a pencil and ruler , drew two straight lines , wrote ‘ Beech' in between them and handed the pencil to Willie . |
| 19 | For Green , the flexibility of the proposal allowed for the meeting of local demand by either or both organisations , it encouraged further co-operative endeavour between them and facilitated the WEA role over the establishment of a county federation of students as an organisational framework to help overcome the perennial difficulty of isolated university extension centres . |
| 20 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
| 21 | The next question is : If Jesus died for me and paid the ‘ price of sin ’ , to whom was the penalty paid ? |
| 22 | Harriet waited until the door had closed after her and flicked the button , feeling oddly apprehensive . |
| 23 | Closed it after him and pushed the bolt . |
| 24 | Then she flew after him and snatched the box away . |
| 25 | Once the Bosnians have had medical checks , they 'll be able to look after themselves and have the chance to send messages to the relatives they 've left behind . |
| 26 | Some of the men climbed in after us and put the cover down on the back , so no one could see us . |
| 27 | Much of the exercise was done in front of a mirror so that he could see for himself and correct the sag on the right side where his ribs had been removed . |
| 28 | All the different interest groups have suddenly been allowed to come out into the open and in some cases it is a question of each for himself and damn the rest . ’ |
| 29 | Then he hailed another for himself and gave the driver the address of the Montrose . |
| 30 | The spectators could therefore still feel themselves as one with the chorus performing immediately below them and ignore the " reality " of the real world all around . |