Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because these will be resent as we know that have individual needs in individual ways and they often rub off one against the other if they live in closeness as we all do . |
| 2 | It does not do any harm to have a look and see what firms say about themselves in the various directories , including The Legal 500 , The Chambers Directory of Solicitors and Barristers and The Law Society Directory . |
| 3 | It 's one like that except a lot smaller with little red berries that grow off it in the spring . |
| 4 | Put any combination of any soft fruits you like into the rumtopf and cover each layer with rum or brandy , so that the fruit is thoroughly soaked , and then forget about it until the winter . |
| 5 | We cry for it in the night , for this perfect union . |
| 6 | Young men leap past us from the roof above , splashing into the water to catch up with their canoes , beer bottles held aloft . |
| 7 | We lead more private lives today than ever before , a defence perhaps against the masses who press against us in the tubes , in the office , at school . |
| 8 | A brilliant officer with more than twenty commendations , he had grown to believe he was omnipotent ; and when Mathews refused to tell him the names of his accomplices , saying it was more than his life was worth , Drury , obsessed with clearing up another case , offered him a deal : make a statement that three men whose names I will give you were your accomplices , testify against them in the witness-box , and in return no charges will be brought against you , and we 'll come to an arrangement about the reward money offered by the Post Office . |
| 9 | That makes me a bit peeved , you know : we can serve them , but not mingle with them on the other side . |
| 10 | While each of the principal lacunae is developing , a tracheal branch and a nerve grow into it from the base of the wing , the lacunae apparently offering the paths of least resistance . |
| 11 | ‘ You are a good officer , Merymose , ’ he said at last , ‘ and although I disagree with you about the capability of our Medjays , I respect your judgment . |
| 12 | And they will go by what you want from it for the o , over the next few years you know ? |
| 13 | I suggest to them at the beginning of each session that they will learn about a different existence from any they may already have experienced . |
| 14 | These may in turn be sub-divided ; goods possessed may comprise either the results of private purchase or goods allocated by the state , while goods not possessed tend to fall into two categories : first , those we encounter as material forms , in particular the built environment , the goods of our acquaintances or those in the high street shop , and secondly , goods we do not experience directly , but which appear to us through the media — for example in television , magazines and advertising . |
| 15 | How many birds did my true love send to me on the twelfth day of Christmas ? |
| 16 | you want to what with the washing machine ? |
| 17 | About quangos whatsoever , I want to something about the boundaries of the European parliament . |
| 18 | I build to it during the lost-in-the-wood speech and then it starts a bit uncertainly and then they really get it and it hits the show like a trumpet solo . |
| 19 | Martha shook her head , feeling tiredness descend on her like the low cloud on the mountains , muffling all her emotions . |
| 20 | ‘ in a public place called … ‘ 'Public place ’ includes any highway and any other premises or place to which at the material time the public have or are permitted to have access whether on payment or otherwise ( section 1(4) Prevention of Crime Act 1953 ) . |
| 21 | He tries to guess what you say to him from the vowels . |
| 22 | It 's what they all say to me in the end . |
| 23 | When the little ones squeeze past me in the Superette I give their mops the chaste old tousle . |
| 24 | De Man 's dynamic of absence and intrusion controls our response to his texts — Rousseau , Nietzsche , Rilke and Proust — and therefore to an ongoing critique on reference , because texts , like characters , apparently speak for themselves in the modes of citation and paraphrase . |
| 25 | Will serving dishes , cutlery , table linen be kept in the kitchen or is there space for them near the dining table ? |
| 26 | We make them at just under a pound but what the record companies charge for them in the shops is up to them |
| 27 | You go up round then you come down yes you can through but people queue and wait for one on the top . |
| 28 | Take Nosey and the spare horse , then wait for me at the crossroads . |
| 29 | After that , wait for me at the corner of the street . ’ |
| 30 | Wait for me in the office . |