Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So for him the technology holds no fears and he is always looking for ways to make the stock market more accessible to the ordinary man or woman in the street . |
| 2 | And so for us the relationships |
| 3 | Instead I had to sit and watch him produce the belt , and although he seemed pleased enough with it the incident left me even more empty of joy than before . |
| 4 | They 'd swum and picnicked , and now they were lying in the shade of a drunkenly angled coconut palm , and all around them the sun glistened relentlessly on sapphire water and brilliant green vegetation . |
| 5 | All around them the shoulders of the hills were browned by the fading of the heather , dulled by the weakening sunshine , their expanses turned dusty-blank as though a great grinding had sifted down on them , decades of labour and hardship , and left them blinded . |
| 6 | All around them the world had come to life . |
| 7 | All around them the solemnity of other faces in mourning . |
| 8 | So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian . |
| 9 | All around me the bedlam continued but I was looking inward . |
| 10 | All around me the pandemonium continued . |
| 11 | All around me the waves looked grey , but far away at Ireland the sea glowed an ethereal soft green , for it ringed a fairy island . |
| 12 | All around us the signs are there … so vote Conservative on Thursday and the recovery will continue on Friday . |
| 13 | All around us the trees were heaving . |
| 14 | It has been both exhilarating and draining and we have to work tomorrow , so we put in our earplugs and pull our sleeping bags over our heads while all around us the talk goes on and on . |
| 15 | Thus for him the male has a lesser role , simply preparing the matter contributed by the female , so that it is ready to accept the soul . |
| 16 | If you look carefully at the illustration you should be able to see the command that started QBasic and just below it the message Hello World . |
| 17 | Shortly after leaving the Luzern steamer-quays , the lakeside lido can be seen on the northern shore , and just behind it the city 's camp site . |
| 18 | If I could take away with me the beginning of such an understanding it would be enough . |
| 19 | One of the points taken on behalf of S. was that the notice was invalid because as soon as he was charged the Director 's investigation came to an end , carrying away with it the power to call for information from third parties . |
| 20 | She knew why she had pulled away from him the night before — because she could n't allow herself to become remotely interested in him . |
| 21 | But his baptism , administered to him by another , sealing physically upon him the objectiveness of what Christ did for him on the cross , that was indeed a ground of assurance . |
| 22 | All men even if they are not so fortunate as to be scientists or artists have still within them the capability to transform their lives into ones of creativity . |
| 23 | Those photographs brought home to me the abomination of desolation that is Croatia now . |
| 24 | This touching but morbid In Memoriam served only to bring home to me the realisation of what now seemed inevitable . |
| 25 | Borne on the clean sea breeze this strange alien farmyard smell from bird droppings suddenly brought home to me the density of the bird population on shore which had yet to reveal itself . |
| 26 | Clearly the whereabouts of those bottles , and the number of them , had been one of the P'daytabird 's little secrets , for Warnie writes , ‘ Nothing brought home to me the finality of the old life as did the carrying out of those bottles and putting them into [ the ] car — to see the mysteries of that jealously guarded secret room emerge as plain matter of fact bottles , and the cellar stand revealed as an ordinary empty cupboard was an unpleasant feeling . ’ |
| 27 | The exercise brought home to me the need — and indeed the advantage — of establishing within the college a culture or ethos of total institutional responsibility for the quality of what we devise , offer and deliver . |
| 28 | Through the AC30 I found it possible to find some pretty convincing old Phantom sounds , ramming home to me the fact that if you can put up with the tuning hassles , a 12-string is still one of the best guitars to use for rhythm . |
| 29 | This brought home to me the fact that paying lots of money for an established defender ( central ) is a massive risk . |
| 30 | It did both , but this only drove home to her the grossness and subjectivity of her own temperament . |