Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [conj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before such people can act together , a kind of telepathic feeling has to flow through them and ripen to the point when they all know that they are ready to begin . |
| 2 | Ferns grew head-high on either side , and suddenly Mary started back with a cry as the ferns parted and something bounded through them and leapt across the path not two feet from her . |
| 3 | Er then election day we were out all day with , with a driver of a car getting people out and for them or going through the motions . |
| 4 | Small peasant farmers can not compete with capitalist concerns , with the result that they often lose their land to them and end up working for them or migrating to the towns in search of wage labour . |
| 5 | Alexandra stood between them and looked down the lane , sunk between high fields , and saw the church tower rising among leafless trees and the blue slate roofs that clustered round it . |
| 6 | It bounced and rolled between them and lay in the shadow of the chair . |
| 7 | If you allowed for the shape of two paper-backs , between them and jutting from the end was a two-inch pack of what could be paper money . |
| 8 | When I move on to three eight one , three eight two there 's a lot of things been said about these benefits this morning which does n't leave much left for me but looking at the situation of the way this Tory government has in the last thirteen years , certainly since nineteen eighty two crucified the benefits paid genuinely to people is in itself a crime upon society and it reminds me of the the words of the song it 's the rich that get the gravy and it 's the poor that get the blame and nothing , but nothing has changed since those words were written many many years ago . |
| 9 | ‘ … we were both pulling in opposite directions , and I felt Brian was siding with his mother rather than standing up for me or remaining in the middle . |
| 10 | Kicking back the covers , I let my feet touch the carpet , put on the white and blue striped kaftan which my journalist daughter had made for me and walked to the window overlooking the central court . |
| 11 | Initially , older people were removed from the community supports which traditionally looked after them and subjected to the rigours of a ‘ work or starve ’ philosophy . |
| 12 | Ruth blazed , limping after him and struggling with the cool-box . |
| 13 | Whether you decide on a honeymoon at home or you 're planning a trip abroad it 's a wonderful excuse to treat yourself to a couple of new outfits for the beach and it 's essential to look after yourself and protect against the sun 's more harmful rays . |
| 14 | A man was meant to be doubtful about himself but undoubting about the truth . |
| 15 | He turned his head slightly towards me and spoke in the direction of my tie . |
| 16 | By the time the flotilla had reached a latitude of 50°S , and had stopped again for rest and replenishment , the men were becoming restive once more : their plea now was ) — if the expedition wanted to reach the Spice Islands , why not turn east towards them and pass below the Cape of Good Hope , as usual ? |
| 17 | He rushed past me and went into the nearest building . |
| 18 | He went past me and bent over the dead man . |
| 19 | A lot of them that came to the g to the gathering To the sports they would stay over just for the sake of getting the dance . |
| 20 | They are unlikely to satisfy the test required by the main argument , i.e. that individuals were more likely to succeed in realizing that which reason required of them if subjected to the government concerned than if left to themselves . |
| 21 | But there would be lights in the chapel , Isabel assured herself , peering ahead for a sign of them and flinching from the feel of the rough stone beneath her palm . |
| 22 | To be absolutely sure she followed one of them and came to the place where they curved round in front of a tree and retreated . |
| 23 | The arrangements which people make privately for various domestic services are well known and little questioned , although practitioners need to be aware of them and relate to the people concerned in planning packages of care . |
| 24 | Eventually they take a plastic sack they 've found on the beach , drape it round the pair of them and walk into the water , giggling . |
| 25 | The archaeologist ran in front of them and stood in the middle of the road . |
| 26 | ‘ And a gardener-handyman , ’ said Charlotte , her eyes following the vigorous heave and surge of the mole-brown water as it tore down past them and ripped at the curve of the bank , lipping half across the trodden right of way . |
| 27 | Stuart pointed just ahead of them but as he spoke , a little white Mini sped past them and slid into the place he had spotted . |
| 28 | Here a question may be raised as to just what we mean when we think of ourselves as plunged by the twentieth century into a chaos of relativism . |
| 29 | He was not in any sense a vain man , but he had a conceit of himself that came from the knowledge that he dominated every quarter that he occupied . |
| 30 | And while he says that he is prepared to go on doing musicals until he has one that really works , he would probably not agree with that picture of himself as fighting against the tide . |