Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 Not only had I had that run in with him over the rehearsals but he was also the fussiest teacher in the school when it came to long hair .
32 I took in with me to the hospital some homoeopathic remedies which are specifics in cases of croup , namely aconite , spongia and Hepar sulphuris .
33 Francie grinned , and joined in with her after the first few phrases .
34 This time they mix guitars with sitars for ‘ We Will Be Your Guns ’ and encourage residents of Death Row , Tennessee to join in with them on the title track .
35 His Dad came in with them into the entrance lobby .
36 Undaunted , the young Scot chased after the opposition in one shoe and came in with them to the final take-over .
37 ‘ I do n't know , ’ I replied , ‘ It 's just as bad back at Brigade H.Q We also have the Navy dug in with us in the orchard .
38 linked in with it at the moment .
39 And er nearly every boy used to take a handkerchief along with him to the , that was to the Christmas party because that was the only party you had a meal at school .
40 On Saturdays as a special treat Granpa would allow me to go along with him to the early morning market in Covent Garden , where he would select the fruit and vegetables that we would later sell from his pitch , just opposite Mr Salmon 's and Dunkley 's , the fish and chippy that stood next to the baker 's .
41 But Connors has taken no serious breaks from the game and its stylistic progress ; his game in itself has durable , idiosyncratic features ( whereas Borg 's became the prototype on which newcomers based their own playing patterns ) ; and he has been able to take his audience along with him through the very gradual decline in his competitive expectations .
42 Although the Nigeria debate was a relative success after a year of criticism , its significance was not lost on Law : it was held on the subject central to Unionist economic attitudes ; Law and Steel-Maitland were singled out for censure , a pointer to the level of party discontent Party feeling had built up much as Law 's own had done ; having fought off the direct attack , he took the party along with him in the effort to reconstruct the government on more businesslike lines .
43 " … given to the Miller of Conistone for going along with me onto the fell 1s . "
44 A neighbour suggested I go along with her to the local WI and , despite my reservations , I had a wonderful time .
45 Ultimately we were given that assurance and er we were quite proud of the fact that , you know , the members had gone along with us on the proviso that we had got that principle you know , to establish .
46 Jasper sensed some of this and vowed not to go along with it in the sheeplike fashion of the others .
47 I 've played along with you for the past hour .
48 Then complete the inspection voucher and bring this along with you to the Safety Centre .
49 There were any number of laden country folk in this concourse , and within the hour there would be still more crowding down upon them from the town , after the market .
50 The figures are left in the orange colour of the clay , the background painted in round them in the shiny black : a purely decorative variation ; and it has been plausibly suggested that the strange ‘ negative ’ idea was inspired by the custom of washing the background of marble reliefs with a blue or red against which the mainly white figures were left standing out .
51 Discretion would appear to be ‘ the better part ’ ; about fifty to sixty metres down from me on the right are some very steep — probably vertical — cliffs falling the last thirteen to seventeen metres into the sea and I have no desire to ride an avalanche down .
52 Crowds of spectators were thronging the sides of the narrow road which led down from it into the village and , after Vitor had hurriedly found a parking place , they joined them .
53 And even as its sound struck the cage about him , there was a crash and a judder and the sky was falling in upon him from the darkening night .
54 Easily distinguishable in his bird-lime-encrusted shirt and shorts , he often had a look in his eye that spoke of clouds and freedom , rather than the shin-splitting hordes bearing down on him in the shape of the Corton Heath Corinthians .
55 Oh , hello … ’ the Doctor replied , not able to tell who was bearing down on him in the fog .
56 Small boys spat down on him from the safety of high windows and their mothers clenched their buttocks and turned away their glowing cheeks .
57 The great , distinguished people of the world do not know that these beggars can in the pride of their souls , look down on them as the unfortunate ones , who are left on the shore for their worldly uses , but whose life ever misses the touch of the lover 's arms . ’
58 Unable to get to our treasure , they were decimated by the rain of bolts our forebears showered down on them from the tower of this church .
59 A square of amber light shone down on them from the open hatch .
60 The sun shone down on her through the glass , and added to the headache that was gathering behind her eyes .
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