Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adj] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had one roll-up an hour and you had to roll them so thin to make the tobacco last : jaw-achers they were . |
| 2 | Fear of public criticism may well be intimidating some doctors , making them less inclined to consider the diagnosis . |
| 3 | like someone more anxious to save the wrapping |
| 4 | Whoever had called him must have been someone very powerful to make the head of the KGB jump like that . |
| 5 | erm just just as something totally off the top of my head erm I very much regretted the demise of the proper programme erm and in fact I I actually object to the paying twenty pence for something that er really does n't represent value for money . |
| 6 | I decided to spend three nights watching the Peckoltias when they would be at their most active to gauge the aggression that — during the day — I did not see . |
| 7 | Mr Beckenham found himself quite unable to withstand the plea . |
| 8 | It is this aspect which then makes them more likely to produce the interlanguage of signs in English order . |
| 9 | ‘ Then why are you so reluctant to repeat the experience ? ’ |
| 10 | It seems that while an increase in colonic cell proliferation usually precedes and accompanies colorectal carcinogenesis , a reduction of cellular proliferation is not of itself always sufficient to reverse the process . |
| 11 | So you immediately all said the person on the right . |
| 12 | As a divertimento this determinedly uningratiating piece has to be the least successful on the disc , but it sounds like the one most likely to survive the translation to the concert- hall . |
| 13 | Yes , I 'm sure , I mean we obviously all appreciate the fact that within wards there 's an area of deprivation and an area that is n't deprived . |
| 14 | They will also do everything practically possible to protect the public . |
| 15 | Were we even able to answer the question posed by Barbara Kahan at last week 's conference — Why have we tolerated neglect of training in child care for so long ? — we might edge our way toward a new life for residential care . |
| 16 | However , if you have a car tyre that has a slow puncture , and you have to take it to the garage every week to put air into it , it does n't mean that there is anything wrong with the pump : there must be something else wrong to make the tyre lose air . |
| 17 | About 3.30 a.m. there was a noise like a low-flying aircraft zooming very fast overhead followed by something very heavy hitting the ground . |
| 18 | It took her so long to roll the joint , she 'd slowed down before she even put a match to it . |
| 19 | In their own ways , do they not all see the world through rose-coloured spectacles ? |
| 20 | They thus each require the pp , as their parts are copied either on separate sheets or at any rate on separate lines on the same sheet . |
| 21 | That , and the steady loss of blood from the massive internal damage inflicted by the passage of Lomax 's bullet through ribs , muscle and lung , rendered him too weak to escape the prospect of the horrifying death he now faced . |
| 22 | Are they too eager to help the client ? ( 7 ) Do you have a system for keeping the witness informed of the progress of the claim where trial is likely to be delayed ? ( 8 ) Do you know dates when the witness may not be available to give evidence ? ( 9 ) Do you have sufficient information to contact the witness at short notice on the eve of trial ? |
| 23 | It seems to me quite unrealistic to divorce the buying of the chocolate from the supplying of the records . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , quite a lot , ’ said Jean , who found it rather hard to explain the number of duels , pursuits on horseback , quick changes of identity and narrow escapes from the authorities he had experienced by the age of twenty-four . |
| 25 | Was it right even to burden the family with his plan ? |
| 26 | Protestants found it theologically unacceptable to separate the table from the laity in the nave , and to place it on high in the position of an altar at the east end of the church . |
| 27 | While the single-centre institutions found it somewhat easier to adopt the mantle of RMC , inevitably some of the multi-centre RMCs found their development delayed by management problems , especially where they were composed of a number of colleges which had to negotiate a series of complex mergers before they could start . |
| 28 | Given Chrysler 's claims for the 1991 Dodge Spirit R/T — and the fact that the company is giving serious consideration to selling the R/T in six key European markets ( Germany , Belgium , Holland , Switzerland , Austria and France ) from late 1991 — we felt it only appropriate to test the Spirit against one of Europe 's finest sporting saloons , on the kinds of roads such a car is expected to master . |
| 29 | I thought it only civil to break the ice with this boy of hitherto laggardly intelligence who had somehow scrambled his way to a temporary plateau of scholastic proximity . |
| 30 | no of course you would n't , I do n't suppose Mr would , but the whole purpose of a brochure like this , is not necessary a dishonourable purpose , it 's a hook the punter , to use Mr elegant word , he want to make it so simple to hook the punter and make him or her say to himself that 's where we want to live and set their heart on it , that 's all the purpose of this brochure in it ? or is the |