Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the goods have been dispatched , the manufacturer sends an advice note to the retailer informing him of the date and time of dispatch . |
| 2 | One of these took Venturous to the Bristol Channel and the South Wales ' ports , and a later one was made to the north of Scotland with the Board joining us at Aberdeen . |
| 3 | An oriental Korean card game , played for points with the computer facing you as the opponent . |
| 4 | There was a moment 's hesitation , then the boy 's prints were flashed up on the screen , the computer superimposing them over the others . |
| 5 | Secondly , existing paper documents could be scanned into the computer enabling them to be further processed without the necessity of reproducing the original . |
| 6 | Another young man in nothing but a tan lay on the deck watching her through sunglasses . |
| 7 | A speaker had been set in one of the trees , like some modernistic bird's-nest , and Sara noticed the long snaky trail of the cable connecting it with the hi-fi in the house . |
| 8 | The car plunged into the ocean in the Bahamas and was seen emerging off Corsica — with an ordinary sweeping brush covering up the tell tale tracks in the sand left by the cable pulling it from the sea . |
| 9 | Quickly I hurled two magical fireballs , both hit the creature of the night square in the chest reducing him to a pile of smouldering bones . |
| 10 | Quickly I hurled two magical fireballs , both hit the creature of the night square in the chest reducing him to a pile of smouldering bones . |
| 11 | It seemed that the thread linking me to those with whom I was familiar was inherently insubstantial . |
| 12 | For ten minutes he becomes a wandering minstrel , illuminated by the bass-player following him with a torch from the stage . |
| 13 | She could lie in bed at night and in imagination move confidently around the cottage touching them in a happy exploration of shared memories and reassurance . |
| 14 | The descant accompanying it for fifty years had been one of complaint . |
| 15 | Di wrote to her after the ceremony thanking her for all the work she had done for fellow cancer sufferers and for raising £40,000 towards the centre . |
| 16 | The rule that cases should be prepared for trial by someone other than the advocate presenting them in court should not apply to solicitors , the committee said . |
| 17 | We went off to parade for lunch ; this meant ten minutes doing press-ups with the Corporal halting us in mid exercise so that we were poised between the ground and the arms-stretched position — as our limbs weakened so people started to slump and collapse , which resulted in kicks and blows . |
| 18 | In the carriage taking me into town , I cried a little . |
| 19 | Cheap land prices in the region , offering poor cash returns , have also deterred the agent taking it under its wing . |
| 20 | For the first time in his life Karelius realized how narrow was the gap separating him from his pagan ancestors , the Germanic warriors of a thousand years before . |
| 21 | Pinned above Beth 's bed , next to the card proclaiming her to be a spiritualist , was a photograph of a male dancer from the newly formed Royal Ballet , and I came in one day soon after I arrived at Huntingdon to find a knot of giggling girls peering up at this dancer , who was poised on one foot , wearing an agonised expression and very tight tights . |
| 22 | He chose a place between two snoring servants and laid down to sleep , oblivious to the figure watching him from the shadows . |
| 23 | We slanted across the river , the wind carrying us against the current , and coasted up the far bank . |
| 24 | He is required to disregard the interests of the institution appointing him in favour of the shareholders as a whole . |
| 25 | Rachel wrenched herself out of his embrace , aware of the barman watching them with an indulgent smile , as though they were lovers , not enemies . |
| 26 | We wrote to the AAIB asking them about this , but they never answered . |
| 27 | I held Elizabeth close , and as I held her , I saw the monster watching me through the open window of the room . |
| 28 | And the Monster commanding her with a series of little short , bad-tempered grunts . |
| 29 | The children were killed when masked gunmen opened fire on the minibus taking them to school . |
| 30 | A friend clearly recalls the Princess telephoning him in tears . |