Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's one like that except a lot smaller with little red berries that grow off it in the spring . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We cry for it in the night , for this perfect union . |
| 4 | Young men leap past us from the roof above , splashing into the water to catch up with their canoes , beer bottles held aloft . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That makes me a bit peeved , you know : we can serve them , but not mingle with them on the other side . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | And they will go by what you want from it for the o , over the next few years you know ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | How many birds did my true love send to me on the twelfth day of Christmas ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Martha shook her head , feeling tiredness descend on her like the low cloud on the mountains , muffling all her emotions . |
| 16 | He tries to guess what you say to him from the vowels . |
| 17 | It 's what they all say to me in the end . |
| 18 | When the little ones squeeze past me in the Superette I give their mops the chaste old tousle . |
| 19 | Will serving dishes , cutlery , table linen be kept in the kitchen or is there space for them near the dining table ? |
| 20 | We make them at just under a pound but what the record companies charge for them in the shops is up to them |
| 21 | Take Nosey and the spare horse , then wait for me at the crossroads . |
| 22 | After that , wait for me at the corner of the street . ’ |
| 23 | Wait for me in the office . |
| 24 | So the black-backed gulls wait for them in the air in front of the cliffs , wheeling and circling on the up-draught created as the wind , blowing in from the sea , is deflected upwards . |
| 25 | And it 's erm it 's so oppressive and we really worry about it with the children . |
| 26 | Do n't wither on the sterile sidewalks of Paris , he exhorted , ‘ come and paint with me on the heath , in the potato field , come and walk with me behind the plough and the shepherd , come and sit with me , looking into the fire — let the storm that blows across the heath blow through you . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ If you wish to sit up talking with Claudine , however , or walk with her in the moonlight … ’ |
| 28 | Ice floes circulate with it across the Pole from eastern Siberia toward Ellesmere Island , Greenland , and out into the north Atlantic Ocean , mostly along the east Greenland coast . |
| 29 | And I would rush to the window and look down and see you turning the corner to cross the square below , or walk round it to the hotel door . |
| 30 | You walk to it along the foot of the gorge , through tunnels at one point , and then climb about twelve pitches that are never harder than HVS . |