Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The man takes my hands in his and places them within the box and around the point of life . |
| 2 | I put the pen in his hand and he marks it himself and puts it in the box . ’ |
| 3 | He wrenches his cigarette from his mouth , glares at me and grinds it into the ashtray , disconcerted by the firecracker element . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Then this young punk comes up behind me and hits me on the head with a car-tool . |
| 6 | ‘ The chief cipher clerk , Walter Peckle , decodes them and hands them to the ambassador . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been telling myself I would n't let this happen , ’ he rasped , ‘ but there 's something about you that drives me to the edge of my control . ’ |
| 8 | It takes you and deposits you at the edge of a precipice and you can watch helplessly as you dangle and your hopes for survival are sinking into the depths of despair ’ . |
| 9 | Among the multiple realities there is one that presents itself as the reality par excellence . |
| 10 | Their new single , Family , includes all these elements and could be the one that breaks them into the big time . |
| 11 | ( i mean the way he have sticked with specially dino shows us that — dino himself who expressed wishes for playing at the international level himself when he joined leeds — i guess he is a farther away now : the likes of Shearer , Wright ( a flop in the internationals ) , Cole ( hey there is one that puts them in the net ) and Ferdinand will have no problems keeping him out … ) |
| 12 | Well , so we do , about Handel and the way he makes the best effect ( at least on us ) ; but a different kind of historical awareness is needed here , one that puts us into the frame of mind of late eighteenth-century Vienna and its perception of Handel . |
| 13 | It is a dramatic change , and not one that recommends itself to the city 's residents . |
| 14 | Although we do not yet have a proper quantum theory of gravity , let alone one that unifies it with the other physical interactions , we do have an idea of some of the features it should have . |
| 15 | I 'm afraid there 's none of that — transport , I mean — except Archie McLaren 's Land-Rover , the one that carries you from the harbour . |
| 16 | Rather it will be a case of the researcher finding a means of recording and sorting the mass of detail which continuously bombards him and presents him with the lateral possibilities which make the discipline potentially dangerous . |
| 17 | The lion immediately jumps on him and forces him to the ground . |
| 18 | While she is occupied in examining the gift , he quickly scuttles over her and ties her to the ground with bonds of silk before he risks an embrace . |
| 19 | Typically the customer selects the equipment from the supplier , and the finance lessor buys it and leases it to the customer on rentals calculated to pay off the purchase price plus interest . |
| 20 | It provokes an answer , anticipates it and structures itself in the answer 's direction . ’ |
| 21 | In fact I suggest John Major snips it out , frames it and hangs it in the Cabinet room to remind himself and some of his more heartless colleagues of just how much Belinda and hundreds of other children need this wonderful hospital . |