Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest had followed Hazel when he roused them and , without explanation , told them to go quickly outside the barn . |
| 2 | ‘ For , ’ she put down , ‘ I want to go there as humble McAllister who keeps the house clean , dressed the doll and made and embroidered the baby clothes , not as the American Princess doing the gracious , ladling our Papa 's money , not one penny of which I have earned , smiling and patronising those not so fortunate as myself , and then leaving them to go home to the embassy — to forget them ! ’ |
| 3 | He wondered whether to tell the four of them seated there about the death of Dr Kemp , for they 'd have to know very soon anyway . |
| 4 | After that everything between them became easy for the time being . |
| 5 | ‘ Bumface came here to tell me that he was going to fight the War Office and that he was not having the WO Instruction for me to report forthwith to the Ski Battalion at Bordon . |
| 6 | One reason is that women , particularly in the Third World , are often not aware of the real dangers of contraception because health staff and pharmaceutical companies keep them in ignorance for fear of making them stay away from the clinic . |
| 7 | For all the world as if she and Miss Beard were ladies of quality , he ceremoniously handed them into the carriage , the two of them to sit together in the back , while Herbert Fraser sat beside Sean in the front . |
| 8 | Of course the Captain forbade me to go anywhere near the place again . |
| 9 | It was an angle that caused them to fall apart in the end . |
| 10 | The citizens charter sets out a comprehensive programme to improve the quality of public services and make them answer better to the wishes of their users , where that can be done , by providing choice for the citizen . |
| 11 | One primary intervention therefore was for me to liaise regularly with the ward so that Mrs Allen was fully informed about the situation . |
| 12 | Sometimes the clerics among them met separately from the laymen . |
| 13 | First there was a vague lightening of the sky ahead , then the drumming of the rain was less persistent , the lesser darkness in the heavens spread until it was over them , they could distinguish the greater irregularities of the ground , the last few drops of rain splashed down and a blissful silence spread around them broken only by the sibillations of the water draining away among the rocks and the splash of their sodden feet . |
| 14 | The Dana andrew had told me to wait here for the girl Trefusis had sent indream after me . |
| 15 | Sometimes she wants me to work hard on the court and she is very serious and at home she is very nice to me . |
| 16 | The use of acrylic colours in my palette allows me in all aspects of landscape painting to correct and add light ; in fact it enables me to work more in the manner of an oil painter . |
| 17 | He says the two main benefits for shareholders are that the perks are a ‘ bit of fun ’ that it ‘ enables them to relate more to the company . ’ |
| 18 | The difference between them lies simply in the fact that while do situates the infinitive in time as an actualization , the modals only situate it as a potentiality . |
| 19 | The reason is that erm the question of membership seems to me to relate essentially to the ministry of the whole people of God . |
| 20 | There is genuine confusion among the army commanders in Bosnia despite the enormous pressure from Belgrade for them to work openly with the Serb paramilitaries . |
| 21 | Accompanied by two of his closest advisers , foermer Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda and Sanya Dharmasakdi , he appealed to them to work together for the sake of the people and the economy . |
| 22 | The crunch is that in September , Hong Kong 's rugby players , like most other expatriates in the Colony , will be enjoying their summer holidays — many of them scattered all around the world — and the rugby season would still have not begun . |
| 23 | You were quite happy for me to come home on the bus . |
| 24 | Pa has given special permission for the godparents and me to stand inside at the Jonah window , while he does the immersion outside . |
| 25 | She picked up the slips of pasteboard and let them fall haphazardly on the table in front of them . |
| 26 | I asked again about the truck . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , ’ I asked impatiently at the end , ‘ is n't Mrs Reed a bad woman ? |
| 28 | As time went by and my experience sharpened , I back away from the window , taking in more and more of the store fronts , their signs , and external lights . |
| 29 | As time went by and my experience sharpened , I back away from the window , taking in more and more of the store fronts , their signs , and external lights . |
| 30 | Yet again I gazed intently at the lighthouse , the beach , the palapas , the palm trees and the reef . |