Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I pierced the mask of the temporal that is a facade made hideous by the graffiti of desires and I saw behind it the real of human beings , that is , a masterpiece on the wheel of Eternity . |
| 32 | They even brought with them the distinctive knocker which was later returned to Oxford in the late nineteenth century . |
| 33 | Harnack himself defended that development as necessary for the survival of Christian faith in the ancient Graeco-Roman world , but believed it must now be transcended , for it brought with it the immense danger of transforming the original and authentic gospel of love preached and exemplified by Jesus into abstract intellectual formulae , of confusing the husk with the kernel . |
| 34 | They took with them the 16-year-old Jane as interpreter . |
| 35 | I 'm sure your friend will put a good word in for you , ’ which brought from her the sharp retort : ‘ Yes , he will ! |
| 36 | I looked at it the other day and I thought I must remember to ask . |
| 37 | Since we had shown previously that the bZIP region of the Fos protein is not phosphorylated by the DNA-PK ( Figure 2 , lanes 5 and 6 ) , we introduced into it the Glu- Ser-Gln-Glu motif of c-Jun that contains Ser-249 ( Fos-Core-ESQE ; Figure 5A ) . |
| 38 | Although there are no hon. Members from Scottish constituencies in their places at the moment , my hon. Friend the Minister made a passing reference to Scotland , which is one of the issues that I discussed with him the other evening . |
| 39 | Even Terry Lewis hinted at it when I spoke to him the other evening . |
| 40 | ‘ Yes , Martha 's mother , Susan Sowerby , spoke to me the other day . |
| 41 | ‘ I spoke to her the other day at a charity meeting and she was telling me that her poor brother died recently . |
| 42 | She tried to get , she 's tried to get started making , doing her own business , spoke to her the other day and she 's , well , Pat spoke to her on Sunday and she got more out of her than I did |
| 43 | He offered an as yo as you read it there in the opening of chapter two , he offered her drink , at meal times she was to eat the food provided for Boaz servants he gave to her the extra portion of parched corn and also he provided extra gleaning for her . |
| 44 | I wrote for him the following poem ; it seems to me now rather jejune , but it was the spontaneous overflow from a heart both proud and anxious , and not greatly concerned with turning out a literary exemplar : Parachutists ( for L.G.C. ) |
| 45 | She had about her the rich glow of a woman who excelled at everything which constituted a woman 's work . |
| 46 | Tall , ruddy-faced and tending to corpulence in his early forties , he had about him the self-satisfied air of a man who has already achieved some measure of public acclaim ; he wore his thick shock of fair hair brushed across his forehead from a centre parting in two matching wings , and his upper lip was thatched with a fashionably luxuriant mustache . |
| 47 | They were facing a mounting legal bill , whereas Cassidy had behind him the huge resources of the diocese — much of it contributed by gays and lesbians , Moreover , the Chancellor 's opinion was clear . |
| 48 | Unlike the Scandinavian seafarers , however , the sixteenth-century Russians enjoyed an enormous military advantage over the indigenous people they encountered by having guns , and in addition they had behind them the organized power of the centralized state of Muscovy . |
| 49 | I ran into him the other day . ’ |
| 50 | The largest section under David Stirling , who had with him the repaired ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ , headed for the escarpment above Fuka . |
| 51 | He also had in him the wrathful patriarch of the Protestant religion , for he was the product of the two warring faiths , of an Irish Catholic mother and an Irish Presbyterian father , and of the Sunday ritual my mother would repeatedly describe as if narrating the auspicious early life of a saint . |
| 52 | What someone said to me the other night is that you 've got 75% of it and that 's good . |
| 53 | but the actual extract as , as Cath said to me the other day , you know she felt sure and I said to her you know in a full length film they could 've actually chosen a better moment |
| 54 | Cos she said to me the other day , she said have you been in my room and touched ? |
| 55 | she said to me the other day , has my mummy been in ? |
| 56 | And I used to load the boot up and bring them and load home like in the boot of my car my Sales Manager said to me the other day , how the hell did you get bright red dust in your boot ? |
| 57 | Raymond said to me the other day , I asked him was there any lemonade ? |
| 58 | I went rubbish cos he came and said to me the other day oh so how are you enjoying your first term |
| 59 | Fellow said to me the other week you do n't live here . |
| 60 | you said to him the other night . |