Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because they have been treated more as adults here , the contrast between this and ordinary school makes it sometimes difficult for them to return and adapt to being treated as children again , so it is obviously preferable for them to continue on at the unit . |
| 2 | It marked them off from other men and made it difficult for them to settle down to the dull conformity of civilian existence after the war . |
| 3 | And thirdly , his world contained a great number of Christian knights , professional warriors , lords of unrule : if he could but find a holy cause , a just war , God 's war , for them to engage in outside the frontiers of Europe , what might they not achieve , what peace might not come to Christendom ? |
| 4 | Walking with his gauche , bouncy tread , his shoulders hunched , Nicola 's husband led Blanche and Dexter down the steps into the kitchen and gestured for them to sit down round the kitchen table . |
| 5 | But the task of clearing hundreds of tips was too much for them to take on at the last minute . |
| 6 | He waited for them to pass through into the central chamber . |
| 7 | The horses could n't get inside the church , so the doors were left open for them to look in on the proceedings . |
| 8 | Cos he 'll eat them , he 'll be stood there waiting for them coming out of the blooming oven ! |
| 9 | The most usual course of action for disappointed applicants will be for them to write back to the Com |
| 10 | How parents can spend all that money for them to run down on the chest paddling with their hands on the dirty pavement ! |
| 11 | And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them . |
| 12 | Before she undressed , Nicandra pulled back the window curtains , cold as glass in her hands , and stood between them to look out at the changed world . |
| 13 | I felt the corporeal elephant on whose back my world was supported amble effortlessly along , rather that it being necessary for me to lean out from the howdah of my head and goad him . |
| 14 | ‘ I rarely get away from church without someone finding something for me to do up at the manor . |
| 15 | This , of course , is very unfair : it is just not reasonable for me to flounce about in the bathroom for hours and then make a man feel inadequate when I catch him using my dental floss. or to bellow in disgust when I find out he blow-dries his hair . |
| 16 | ‘ Any more than it 's possible for me to work up at the college with all those strapping lads running round in jockey shorts and have no reaction whatsoever . ’ |
| 17 | Although I would have kept all the notes and drafts and I could , therefore , reconstruct how a poem is written , it 's my experience that once it 's been written it 's very hard for me to imagine back to the time when it was n't written . |
| 18 | There were newspaper reporters standing in the lane where he had lived , waiting all day for someone to come out of the house . |
| 19 | ‘ Now , it 's not unusual for someone to come in off the street and tell us they owe a million . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ But after what went on in the first leg , I hope we get a referee who will be strong enough to stamp out any foul play . |
| 21 | She was staring straight past me , sitting very still , as though waiting for somebody to come out of the house . |
| 22 | Twomey sent old Lizzie with the summons : " Mr Twomey says , Sir Dermot says , for ye to come down to the morning room — the young gentlemen are here . " |
| 23 | It was not a well-attended affair — perhaps fifteen people , mainly old women , at the church , few of whom came on to the cemetery . |
| 24 | which I think there were four competitors , one of whom got through to the district final and eventually to the national final that John is going to on Saturday . |
| 25 | It 's just I like to know where I stand and which bit of me to tense up before the rubber truncheon lands . |
| 26 | In Philip Burton 's version , from then on , all was sweetness ; Richard occasionally went back to the house of Cis and Elfed ( on Sunday mornings ) and the two of them got on with the transformation of the street boy into the stage man . |
| 27 | Both of them got out on the restaurant floor , but Pavel carried on down to the entrance lobby . |
| 28 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 29 | But today there was the picnic , and who could tell what would happen once the four of them got in amongst the pine coverts of Ham Park . |
| 30 | Even when I eavesdrop I hear nothing but sex , thought Pascoe watching the four of them disappear out of the bar . |