Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [conj] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 Now you can , those are both the same sides so you 're gon na en add them together and give it the sign that is common to both .
2 Almost as good as being cared for , naturally and freely , was to care for someone else and imagine yourself the recipient .
3 The prowl-car boys handed me downstairs and gave me the hands-flat-against-the-roof-of-the-car routine while they frisked me .
4 And they 'll have my old one in and give me the extra bread for it .
5 Then turning to Millie , whose expression almost broke her down and gave her the urge to take her by the hand and run from this place , only her good sense stopped her ; and bending down , she put her arms around the child and when she felt the tightness of the embrace and the pressure of the thin body against her belly , it was only with an effort she stopped the tears from flowing .
6 Philip pushed him away and gave him the torch to hold while he did up his lace .
7 Richard Dorment of the Daily Telegraph said : ‘ What a pity a dealer did not take him aside and tell him the work he proposed to exhibit was unexhibitable … a visual boredom so total that no amount of metaphor or allusion can give it the kiss of life ’ .
8 When Evelyn was judged fit to go back to work , Rose took her aside and gave her the story .
9 His father raised him up and gave him the kiss of peace .
10 ‘ Listen , Kate , maybe someone took her there and gave her the drugs … . ’
11 Er and er you 'd say , well try and get on old sheet and wash it thoroughly and iron them the p cut it up and iron them with a hot iron .
12 Er , and if your Lordship is happy to do that then I can open it now and indicate what the case is about and invite you to take some time .
13 Write it out in full , reflect on it overnight and polish it the next day .
14 Ian : I turn it round and try it the other way .
15 I mean he has to take it seriously and occupy himself the effluvium which rises from it .
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