Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shuffling all those bodies about to get it all nice and tidy , I think would not only be an enormous exercise , it would be a waste of time , because people do n't stay fixed in aspic once you 've placed them in the right place ; they change , they progress , they regress or whatever . |
| 2 | I 'd actually go a bit further and say yes we 'd like to do this , can we also look after road maintenance as well , because the road maintenance is sent out to contractors , contractors are so busy , they ca n't actually do half this work , they 've got a list as long as your arm , so pit pitfalls in in the pavements as well as as some of the motorways are n't being done because the contract 's been placed , but they 've placed it with the wrong people . |
| 3 | No I 'll let you do it , I , I 've pointed you in the right direction |
| 4 | ‘ In this case it 's because they believe you 've tricked them over the supposed disappearance of Clarion Call . |
| 5 | Mum , look what I 've done Grumpy on done him , I 've done him in the right hat you see |
| 6 | During all our alterations I 've seen it in the old garage away up in a loft and I 've seen it put out in the back yard in the rain , and I 've always saved it and it 's there today . |
| 7 | I 've named it after the viral strain I developed it from . |
| 8 | And then you 've got him on the right hand side look making cheese , this is brother again , that 's not brother . |
| 9 | When you 've got it to the final fold there you 've got your ordinary |
| 10 | I 've got you in the common room I think anyway . |
| 11 | And from then on you 're done — they 've got you by the short hairs . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've relieved him of the financial burden , but we both share the interest of the place . ’ |
| 13 | We 've had it into the major research laboratories around the world who specialise in security . |
| 14 | ‘ Is n't that why you 've avoided me like the very plague ever since I 've been here ? ’ |
| 15 | And they 've clouted it from the outside going in . |
| 16 | They 've put him on the top floor like the other ones we 've had . ’ |
| 17 | It was only when I rang her up to chase up what had happened to the she says , oh dear I 've sent it to the wrong one . |
| 18 | You know I 've loved you from the very beginning and I 'll go on loving you . |
| 19 | Welcome to new readers who have joined us with the recent acquisitions of Argyll Services a London-based office and retail cleaning company , Wessex Hygiene Services who specialise in kitchen ventilation and convector cleaning in Bristol , Wiltshire and Somerset , and Rowland Compliance testing who take us into a new realm of contract servicing in circuit testing and maintenance of electrical appliances . |
| 20 | I have included it among the general books because Michael and Lise Wallach offer as total a critique as I have seen recently of the assumptions underlying most psychology . |
| 21 | Warne 's exploits in the Old Trafford Test , when he grabbed eight wickets , have catapulted him into the Top 10 of the Coopers and Lybrand Ratings , where he is within sight of another Aussie scourge of England , absent medium-fast bowler Bruce Reid . |
| 22 | ‘ Our people have met him in the social life of the arts world . |
| 23 | In this respect , the French government is right to have made the Minister of Culture also Minister of Education ( although whether they have done it for the right reasons , and with the right man is another matter ) . |
| 24 | These are the people who have seen her through the difficult times , who have helped her adjust to the life before her and who have kept her in touch with the real world . |
| 25 | Some of the early sociologists regarded warfare as the means by which the first great step in social development — the expansion of human societies — was accomplished , while others have seen it as the principal factor in the formation of the state itself.4 It is evident that warfare has continued to be an important factor in these processes of expansion and consolidation of state power . |
| 26 | Too many people have seen us over the past two or three days so anything I do will be linked to you . |
| 27 | Even so , few companies have embraced it with the down-and-dirty relish of Converse — another spot features a girl getting the brand 's logo tatooed on her bottom . |
| 28 | Throughout the whole ghastly hour , I thought with gratitude of the boring school routines and the strict schoolmasters who have made me into the psychological oddity which I am today . |
| 29 | Finally , assuming that you have made it to the right starting line in plenty of time , wearing the right kit and your race number , and are facing the correct way when the cannon sounds , there is just one last piece of essential advice : do n't panic ! |
| 30 | I was present at the sale and bought a set of Keesing 's Contemporary Archives which have proved invaluable though I have used them with the usual misgivings that accompany the enjoyment of a benefit which has been denied to others . |