Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By imparting his enthusiasm to his pupils , impressing them most earnestly with the importance of their calling , he sent them out into the world with a store of self-respect which greatly contributed to uphold their position , and gave them an impetus to endeavour to raise its standard , which was often crowned with the most happy success ’ . |
| 2 | He walked me slowly out to the garden gate — a kindly old man , more interested in his trees and his plans for the palace , his rowing and his cycling than in the ruder demands of his people for democracy and good government . |
| 3 | And Leicester to get the win that will keep them right up amongst the leading clubs . |
| 4 | The answer came suddenly , a slap in the face that made her wince : because , on the only occasion when Merrill had actually confronted him with her suspicions — had brought them right out into the open — she had n't given him a chance to explain . |
| 5 | If this happens , it is usually better to leave things for that year , and to take them right down after the next flowering . |
| 6 | And three more points takes them right back into the battle for the promotion play-off . |
| 7 | Putting his hands on her shoulders , he drew them slowly down over the full curves , feeling , weighing , drawing a fingertip across the tightening nipples . |
| 8 | I decided to wait until the sea took me somewhere safer on the north side of the island . |
| 9 | She said no more and as soon as they arrived at Broom House she said , ‘ No need to take me right up to the house — I can walk up the drive . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It put me right up in the mood again , I 'd forgotten about that sort of intensity . |
| 11 | And there was a lot of space between the hut and the door and the wind took me and flung me right up against the tank and I went down to the ground and crawled on me hands and knees . |
| 12 | Warhurst said : ‘ Ray rang me right out of the blue at 5pm on Thursday afternoon to say the deal was back on again and would I come to Blackburn . |
| 13 | So I did just ask him er just come to me right out of the blue when he was here one night . |
| 14 | If he 's married to my daughter that 'll kick-start me right back in the business , but if you wo n't play your part in all of this then I 'm just as happy to bring him down … ’ |
| 15 | The girl , the lean teenager with W-shaped folds in the vent of her shut armpits , she would suit me right down to the ground . |
| 16 | The Lord spoke to me right there in the church and said why do n't you go ? |
| 17 | A steward with grey hair and neat moustache waved me rather wearily into the cockpit where the pilot and co-pilot were carrying on a violently gestured argument which was to last all the way to Puerto Maldonaldo . |
| 18 | But if you turned round and said to them all right with the consent of the people and with the consent of the Planning Authority we will authorize a site , we would get on and provide it , and they would n't spend four hundred thousand pounds of the taxpayers money in doing it , and it does n't stop there because having spent the four hundred thousand pounds you 've then got to provide the wardening of the site and the constant maintenance , which is a drain . |
| 19 | 1 Peel the pears and rub them all over with the cut side of the lemon . |
| 20 | My charm wins them all over in the end . |
| 21 | Julius quickly sorted through them , tossing them carelessly on to the floor as he continued his fast but thorough search . |
| 22 | The other is that he heard me following , and staged the attack on himself , with the help of some accomplice unknown — for it could n't have been done alone , could it ? — to put himself in the clear , and immobilise me long enough for the other person to get away , and the body to be well downstream . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't think a horse has ever quickened for me so well from the final flight . ’ |
| 24 | I turned away , no longer able to face the eyes that looked at me so coldly in the gleam of the dashboard light . |
| 25 | The only sadness was that my parents , who had supported me so fully in the earlier days , were n't there to enjoy my success . ’ |
| 26 | It will see me all right for the day . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , really ? ’ says Freddie , bending his lips upwards on one side of his face into a suggestion of general benevolence , but moving them only sparingly for the purpose of articulation . |
| 28 | In business it is not uncommon for a seller ( X ) to sell large quantities of a commodity to a buyer ( Y Ltd. ) in the knowledge that Y Ltd. will be able to pay for them only out of the proceeds of re-selling them . |
| 29 | And he went on to tell me admiringly how in the Arab quarter the police-men walk in pairs . |
| 30 | Cut each cake into three equal portions horizontally , and sandwich them together again with the buttercream and jam . |