Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A had no proprietary interest in the farm but had transmitted earlier offers for it to the bank who were trustees of it . |
| 2 | What 's the midwife 's job when she cares for you after the birth ? |
| 3 | • Your complexion deserves make-up which not only improves its appearance but also cares for it throughout the day , so RoC 's foundations are designed to do just that . |
| 4 | Just to be told what 's going on , what 's in the packet , what the future holds for us in the food game . |
| 5 | She sincerely believes that her grandmother looks after her in the spirit world . |
| 6 | It has been said that the surety 's obligation is simply that of paying money and , of course , in a sense that is true if one looks only at the remedy which the landlord has against him in the event of default by the tenant . |
| 7 | The aim behind this use of the Commissioner 's name is twofold : to give assisted persons more assurance that the Commissioner stands behind them in the proceedings , and to increase public awareness of the grant of assistance and of the Commissioner . |
| 8 | A catapult lives with you until the last moment ; it stays tensed in your hands , breathing with you , moving with you , ready to leap , ready to sing and jerk , and leaving you in that dramatic pose , arms and hands outstretched while you wait for the dark curve of the ball in its flight to find its target , that delicious thud . |
| 9 | The onus lies with them in the first place , because the design of the programmes of study is their responsibility . |
| 10 | The inquirer does not believe current scientific results , but simply looks upon them as the current stage on the route to a final description of reality . |
| 11 | God lives in you by the power of his spirit and he will guide you into truth , life and peace . |
| 12 | But you know , for every one of us as Christians , Jesus Christ lives in us by the Holy Spirit , by his spirit . |
| 13 | That 's all that matters to me at the moment . ’ |
| 14 | Similarly , in shaping the format and means of communicating plans and performance down to managers , ‘ having run the retail operation at TSB I appreciate the needs of the front-end operation and the importance of giving people the information that really matters to them with the right commentary . |
| 15 | If the Americans accepted that the Israel-Palestine problem was insoluble , at least for now , they could concentrate on what really matters to them in the Middle East . |
| 16 | ‘ This is my favourite place , ’ Jeremy shouts to her above the music , ‘ fantastic girls here , really alive and witty . |
| 17 | It looks to me on the plan , |
| 18 | At the exalted level of Olympic competition that might be true , although I find it hard to attribute the concept of ‘ needing ’ to Carl Lewis , who , and no doubt I am being unfair , always looks to me like the lead actor in a Disney film entitled The Fastest Kid on Earth . |
| 19 | This seemed like a Falangist revival , for it was the first session that had been held since 1945 and Franco asserted that it was " necessary that the National Council should recover the role which corresponds to it in the political tasks , because it is hierarchically the highest body in the Movement , whose duty it is to ensure the purity of the organization and the continuity of the doctrine " .18 But many of those present , including the Vice-Secretary of FET , Diego Salas Pombo , detected behind the smokescreen of verbiage a lack of genuine commitment to Arrese 's plan for a Falange-dominated future . |
| 20 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 21 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 22 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 23 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 24 | However , the individualistic approach of modern Darwinism which looks at it from the point of view of the reproductive success of individual genes , is n't like the older group selectionistic thinking was , prejudiced in favour of any group . |
| 25 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
| 27 | Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know . |
| 28 | Chirk , trying to retain a hint of character despite the volume of traffic that passes through it on the A5 , came and went , then , across the River Ceiriog and out of Wales into England . |
| 29 | He seizes him and disposes of him in the river like the previous three bodies , and finally gets his pay , the wife being all the more glad for having got rid of her repugnant husband . |
| 30 | After thirty years the memory which abides with me of the Suez episode that began with Egypt 's nationalisation of the Canal on 26 July 1956 is of complete bewilderment and the sense of watching an unintelligible drama It was not surprise that Egypt had appropriated the Canal . |