Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I mean I quote from the nineteenth of November letter from the Parish Council , The Parish Council fully support the environmental recommendations from the District Council . |
| 2 | We want them improved for the coming year and certainly by the first year of the council tax . |
| 3 | They want me to join in the whole furore . |
| 4 | How can he have the nerve to stand there calm and composed and expect me to behave in the same way ? she thought angrily . |
| 5 | When the Minister next talks to the local authorities about this issue , will he point out that many of them no longer give rehousing priority to ex-service personnel , but expect them to go through the normal homeless families procedures ? |
| 6 | ‘ I expect them to finish in the top two . |
| 7 | I now realise I looked for the wrong things . |
| 8 | Remember that bit of bother I had in the Red Hart in Berkeley ? ’ he continued , ‘ the sailor went through the window . ’ |
| 9 | Notice that the right shift truncates the result ; some computers provide a version of arithmetic right shift which adds to the right-hand bit position of the result the value of the last bit shifted out . |
| 10 | D' ya remember in the first when we had curly going everywhere . |
| 11 | By night we suggest you head for the old quarter of Sachsenhausen which is packed with delightful pubs and restaurants . |
| 12 | I suggest you talk to the ten leading political editors in England , and see where they stand . ’ |
| 13 | So what d' you think of the old place ? |
| 14 | Would it be worth actually having a , having a sort of a planning meeting , say you know for the first half hour of one of these meetings , the next one say that we have , you know , a wall planner , you know , a chart and |
| 15 | Ten thousand pounds will build you the highest column in the world , and will produce an astonishing effect ; fifty thousand pounds would not serve to erect an arch , and when it was erected you would have doubted which , it or the Royal Exchange , was the more magnificent object ; therefore I exhort you to keep to the columnar form . |
| 16 | I called you over because I want you to look after the new lady . |
| 17 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 18 | Pity it backfired during the lucky draw at Edinburgh 's ritzy Prestonfield House Hotel recently . |
| 19 | ‘ The experts say it dates to the first century , ’ Anna Sabatini had said when she 'd noticed Caroline admiring it . |
| 20 | ‘ I decided to crackle glaze it to merge with the French antique furniture , ’ Sam explains . |
| 21 | ‘ And I want it to go on the same way till I 'm free to offer you more . ’ |
| 22 | In the flat land of the Delta the babies cry themselves to sleep in the airless shade , while everyone else labours in the scintillating sun . |
| 23 | Let them see to it that their power is used effectively in the coming elections for the establishment of a bona-fide working-class party , and above all let them beware of the intriguing politics and hypocritical middle class friends of Germany . |
| 24 | Erm , let me start with the monthly calendar card please . |
| 25 | ‘ Then let me arrange for the two of you to meet . ’ |
| 26 | and let me deal with the first form ? |
| 27 | Let me deal with the main points of the statement item by item . |
| 28 | Let me read to the right hon. and learned Gentleman what the Engineering Employers Federation said : ’ Our experience is that provided they are properly conducted ’ — the very point that I am making — ’ secret workplace ballots are not subject to harassment and have additional beneficial features . |
| 29 | But let me get to the various leaders ' speeches . |
| 30 | Let me respond to the specific ECGD point raised by the right hon. Gentleman . |