Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Yes , I met someone the other night who made a sort of suggestion about a possible job of some kind . " |
| 2 | She was sure that at some point she 'd given someone the cold shoulder and hurt them badly without noticing . |
| 3 | ’ Aye , ye mentioned somethin' the last time I wis up . ’ |
| 4 | A actually I visited somebody the other day and you just forget you just forget . |
| 5 | Well there 's Sian , they probably want one the same for Nicola , Jill |
| 6 | So I cook one the other day , and I cook one this morning , I 've pressure cooked one for him , but he would n't look at it Reg is definitely |
| 7 | To allow large numbers of Southerners into their highly regimented society could unravel everything the Stalinist regime there has created in the last forty years . |
| 8 | As she approached the reception desk she saw that the Cooks were already there , apparently having trouble understanding something the short balding clerk was trying to explain . |
| 9 | Still , it makes for some interesting innuendo as he admits he has something the other girls have n't . |
| 10 | I rather like the Nimbus set , despite the generous acoustics and the occasional technical frailty , as not only has one the inestimable benefit of hearing the music shaped , balanced , and paced in a way that at least approximates the sort of thing Schubert originally had in mind , but they all sound as though they 're having such a jolly good time ( one palls at the though of all those ghastly , poe-faced Schubert records which litter the catalogue ) . |
| 11 | ‘ My dad looks very like me , he has everything the same as me — even the same hair and freckles all over his face . |
| 12 | and I 'm seeing the surgeon today and erm and I met somebody the other day who 'd had it done and his fingers were n't affected , you know , so I mean it 's just the luck of the draw I think . |
| 13 | The next morning we woke none the worse for our terrible experience . |
| 14 | It is made none the easier by the differences in approach used to analyze the nature of the problem . |
| 15 | The latest flights from arctic Russia arrived at Slimbridge today … looking none the worse for their 2,500 mile journey . |
| 16 | ‘ Threat ’ when used in this connection means ‘ an intimation by one to another that unless the latter does or does not do something the former will do something which the latter will not like . ’ |
| 17 | The anticipated sense of loss can be so strong and the wish to feel you have done everything the dying person wanted so real that the people involved will often comply no matter how outrageous the request . |
| 18 | Once in a while fantastic planetary aspects or influences afford one the perfect opportunity to prove just how daring , adventurous and self-confident one can be . |
| 19 | ‘ Now let's do one the other way , Dustin . |
| 20 | Well Mao would do anything the Communist Party , let's make it capitalist society . |
| 21 | Double-check you have got everything the right way round so that the artwork is not back to front , then close up the UV light box and switch on . |
| 22 | We do n't like everything the French do , but they plan things like railways . |
| 23 | The General and I , on the other hand , being men of intellect and learning , can understand everything the old bugger is saying . |
| 24 | So they do n't frighten them , you know , if you 're lying there you 're having a heart attack or you just had one the last thing you want to hear is sort of the noise of the siren , the panicking noise of a siren . |
| 25 | Me sister 's got one the same and I said cor I like your ring I 'll never afford that and she said it 's only Argos sixty nine bleeding quid , I thought it 's fine . |
| 26 | Yeah , Mary 's got one the same . |
| 27 | ‘ I want you to try and remember everything the two of you said , right from the beginning . |
| 28 | After seven months in business , 69 Diving are now expanding to enlarge their range to cover everything the individual diver or club could require . |
| 29 | I know that many others share this natural affinity , for the remote hill regions give one the same sense of independence and adventure as the sea . |
| 30 | Instead of paying everybody the same state pension , the state should protect those in need adequately , and leave the rest to look after themselves . |