Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [verb] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We decided to buy twenty letter box stickers which I am to send for and give you the cheque to this end . |
| 2 | He glared across the breakfast table at them , quenching the morning cheerfulness in the kitchen , and fiercely examined them at tea-time as if to see what the day had done to them . |
| 3 | as if obeying her the bus did appear and ten minutes later she and Erika were at Frankfurter Allee , a roaring road choked with an army convoy : dozens of lorries , their contents masked by huge tarPaulins . |
| 4 | Fleury faltered backwards as the sepoy advanced , still making as if to offer him the sabre . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've called up the PR firm we normally liaise with and given them the name of the hotel you 're booked into . |
| 6 | The 1971 Act also effectively discriminated against black workers by the introduction of the concept of ‘ patrials ’ , which was intended to distinguish persons with close ties to Britain from those without and give them the right to reside in Britain . |
| 7 | ‘ Now then , our Emily , get your skates on and show him the lie of the land . |