Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can show me or remind me of the difference between orange and pink , perhaps by showing me a colour chart . |
| 2 | You can align and rotate objects , group or ungroup them or move them to the front or back . |
| 3 | The petitioning period expires , in the case of a November order on 22nd January and in the case of a March order on 23rd May , and the agent would normally then report to the client on petitions received , examine the petitions and advise on the action taken to settle them or to meet them in the inquiry . |
| 4 | Isobel stared at him , then laughed , drew her arm through his and pulled him towards the door . |
| 5 | The man takes my hands in his and places them within the box and around the point of life . |
| 6 | He lowered himself and kissed her through the weave . |
| 7 | I laughed at him but , when he heard footsteps in the corridor , he wrenched it off my neck himself and flung it from the window . |
| 8 | I put the pen in his hand and he marks it himself and puts it in the box . ’ |
| 9 | It was half-blind and its fur was staring and it expected nothing and desired nothing save the crust by the table leg on which its half-gaze was fixed . |
| 10 | When PC Stennett was sent to investigate he searched Hagans , but he found nothing and left him in the car park . |
| 11 | Despite our wariness of exclusivity , if I had a satisfactory answer to my first question ( somewhere along the lines of : we pay nothing and lose none of the candidate fee ! ) |
| 12 | This was a big step for me and put me on the road to caddying top tournaments at a very young age . |
| 13 | He took it from me and put it on the mantelpiece . |
| 14 | I 've brought a bottle with me and put it in the fridge . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's in the future but it will be another chapter in the book and I am sure Joe is going to point a few things out to me and help me along the way . |
| 16 | Yet again , looking at this urbane relaxed figure seated opposite me and comparing him with the romantic figures of Spender and others or with the scruffy Auden , I found it difficult to believe that he was a poet and not rather some worldly and successful company director . |
| 17 | They will understand me too quickly ; they will turn my own generosity against me and despise me for the lovers I took ; and they will cast me as the woman who briefly threatened to interfere with the writing of the books which they have enjoyed reading . |
| 18 | He wrenches his cigarette from his mouth , glares at me and grinds it into the ashtray , disconcerted by the firecracker element . |
| 19 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 20 | A woman hurried over to me and took me by the hand . |
| 21 | As I landed , four of the men came towards me and took me by the arms . |
| 22 | Underhill then turned on me and bit me on the back of the hand . |
| 23 | Release me and restore me to the ground ; |
| 24 | Let the man lift me from the car still asleep and wrapped in a tartan blanket , let him lift me and carry me up the stairs to my bed , let him gently say , ‘ we 're here ’ … let him lay me down to sleep . |
| 25 | He smiled , thanked me and patted me on the head before knocking at our door . |
| 26 | Pylons strode down from it , past a settlement and a water-tower on the plain due south of me and lost themselves in the haze to the west . |
| 27 | Mrs McDougall , with a quick , concerned look at me , took my basket from me and dumped it on the counter . |
| 28 | Then this young punk comes up behind me and hits me on the head with a car-tool . |
| 29 | Three of them I recognize , but the whole gang has been grinning at me and clapping me on the back like I was their kid brother pulled out of a scrape . |
| 30 | The point is that the inference which you give to it is that they 're not quite fit to be Governors , by comparison with others , and I 'd like to defend that because I can assure you that I have never ever nominated a Governor for a school who I have not thought would be advantageous to that Board of Governors to have as a member and that he will be he or she will be a contributor to that particular school , and I 've done it time and time and time again and indeed on occasions have had headmasters coming to me and thanking me for the particular person that I put in . |