Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have sweet soap here and hot water , and either you wash yourself , all over , or I call in the women to hold you down and scrub you myself . |
| 2 | Anyone can help by making a clear list of what he or she sees as the consequences of the sufferer 's drinking . |
| 3 | Or something to do with the plugs . ’ |
| 4 | I must have strained it or something playing with the kids . |
| 5 | The creatures of the open sea , then , live either in the plankton ; or live in the waters beneath and browse upon the plankton — or live upon the browsers ; or they live on the bottom , and wait for the planktonic manna to rain upon them from above ; or they feed on the creatures that feed upon the bottom . |
| 6 | The group — all males — were wearing either knee-length shirts or what looked like the jackets and trousers left from the last church jumble sale . |
| 7 | Right , where 's this morning 's paper and I go to the bogs ? |
| 8 | I congratulate all those who won trophies and I commiserate with the runners up and others , in the knowledge that it may be their turn next year . |
| 9 | And I mean including the Germans , if you can drive them out . |
| 10 | The full vessels are left on the empty shore , they are for use but I am carried to the river in your arms , and I dance to the rhythms of your heart-throbs and heaving of the waves . |
| 11 | and I laughed about the onlookers asking each other ‘ Who are they ? ’ and trying to place us . |
| 12 | And I stare at the handprints on the ceiling . |
| 13 | As the Dutchwoman and I waited for the musicians to gather themselves up she commented on the sea symbols of fish and anchor in the nave . |
| 14 | ‘ I straightened my back , and I walked down the stairs to my parents and I said goodbye to them and to the servants lined up on the front steps . |
| 15 | So Joe , Mr Wopsle and I walked behind the men through the village and out on to the marshes . |
| 16 | Eva and I walked among the kids . |
| 17 | and I , I mean Jimmy it was only last Friday I went down to have me hair done and I walked from the hairdressers down to Street to get the wallpaper |
| 18 | ‘ As your commanding officer , I 'm the senior member of the Board and I speak for the others . |
| 19 | My scope increased and I cycled round the villages in search of paragraphs . |
| 20 | At midday , when we shut the shop for lunch , and I drove through the streets , it was only the river , glittering in the hard light , that seemed alive . |
| 21 | It was a drizzling spring afternoon and I paused on the steps to button my coat . |
| 22 | Of course , there was always Agnes , and I lived for the nights when I joined the Ralembergs for their simple meal . |
| 23 | I said to the farmers we s you should cut grass and you get nitrates into the water and I said to the farmers er er about their slurry throwing erm a muck across the land , we know the problems that causes , I said if we came out with fertilisers which were would you buy them if it costed a bit more . |
| 24 | But er I did two or three hundred , four hundred , five hundred a day and I got fed up on it and I said to the gaffers one day , if you do n't change me from this job I 'm leaving , so they says oh we do n't want you to do that , best filer we 've had . |
| 25 | And I refer to the directors rather than the scores of people behind the scenes at Williams . |
| 26 | Ward 's voice smashed into my consciousness and I slammed on the brakes . |
| 27 | She got in the bed to watch Neighbours and we came back about five o'clock and I went up the stairs , the T V was and he was erm out for count , so I left them for another hour and I said to mum |
| 28 | His young master brought him in repeatedly and I went through the motions , trying at the same time to make it clear that it was all hopeless . |
| 29 | Well , let me tell you , you 'll know which one it is in a second — I went back , obviously years later , and I was having my beer and I finally had to go to the loo and I went into the ladies ' room and there was a big sign saying ‘ Elizabeth Taylor sat here ’ . |
| 30 | I 'm not used to scotch and I went into the gents down by the station to be sick . ’ |