Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having decided to attend university the next great dilemma is to choose which one . |
| 2 | EM Forster was delighted to find Hardy the perfect host , commenting later that he ‘ always made sure one had plenty of cream in one 's tea ’ . |
| 3 | To retrieve data the logical track and sector is passed to the drive which translates the data automatically to physical tracks and sectors . |
| 4 | Er , I also wanted to raise the issue of er the public service section in respect to er this because there 's something prob perhaps not actually tackled in the resolution but equally er important I think is that it 's actually getting the resources into er er down to the br branch level and er if we took this resolution literally , er what it would actually mean would be that er in har with harmonization of agreements we would be handing over er our majority on the manual workers , public service workers to , so obviously we got ta take this resolution very seriously , but consider its implications and the relevance of the word appropriate because I do n't think that we want to be er handed over to come July the first er single table bargaining where we are an absolute minority and where th th that union merge that 's taking place is obviously hostile to our union . |
| 5 | and then you can That was very good mountain that 's a good one to know how to spell curtains the same . |
| 6 | Coming back from school in England , being met at the airport , hoping to find Francis the other side of the door into the main building . |
| 7 | The gang of six I took to see Hook the other day all loved it . |
| 8 | ‘ First , I 'd like to see Alexander the Great , please . ’ |
| 9 | The fact that Fields had arrived out of the blue , managed to sell Branson the basic idea of an airline and walked away six months later on his way to a million pounds … that was evidence of a particular sort of skill which Branson could appreciate . |
| 10 | The method of netting was to set nets the full length of the wood from the stream , some 500 yards ( 450 metres ) or so . |
| 11 | One night , as Tempy was helping her undress , she determined to tackle Stephen the next day . |
| 12 | And if you happen to be too young to remember rock'n'roll the first time around , this is the perfect way to discover what all the fuss was about ! |
| 13 | Along with the hundred copies Hannah dealt with the following day for those who had been unable to reach Skipton the staggering figure of five hundred books were signed . |
| 14 | The FBI has been summoned several times to tackle problems the local police could not handle . |
| 15 | In order to reach Norway the two men took the jeep to Ostend and drove through Belgium . |
| 16 | The restoration programme undertaken in the town itself to celebrate Lorenzo the Magnificent has included work on the Palazzo Medici Riccardi . |
| 17 | She braced herself to see Matthew the following day , but she did n't . |
| 18 | A good deal of Yong 's salt , we also suspected , was off-loaded secretly that evening , to help tide the waiting families through the subsequent nine months without their menfolk . |
| 19 | This was rectified to an extent by switching in the active circuitry , which gave the signal a kick in the pants , but care had to be exercised to avoid muddying-up the lower-mid frequencies and making the treble over-twangy . |
| 20 | Having read December 's issue I feel I might be able to help Laddie the unkempt Cocker from December 's Post Bag . |
| 21 | The ceremony was widely regarded as an effort to restore Prussia 's regional identity after its suppression during the years of communist rule in the former East Germany , and simultaneously to dissociate Frederick the Great from the Nazi Party , which had revered his military power . |
| 22 | To avoid hypertension the single most important action is probably to lose weight . |
| 23 | Race officials decided not to award McLeod-Wright the second cup , The Journal Trophy , outright after his sixth win and it is still presented to the winner at Newcastle 's Civic Centre each year . |
| 24 | Julia waited to give Raffaella the bad news until she had delivered her lesson , led a halting conversation in English about the future of Italy , handed out the previous week 's exercises that she had marked , and set the work for the next lesson . |
| 25 | The old lady took all her money out of the bank and made plans to leave Sheffield the next day . |
| 26 | The Congress ended a stormy debate on Saturday which appeared to give parliament the upper hand in the struggle over who rules Russia . |
| 27 | Such mistranslations occasionally had their amusing side , as when ‘ State Ball ’ was translated so as to give listeners the delightful picture of the president playing football with a visiting group of dignitaries at State House . |
| 28 | The circuit aims to give walkers the best possible experience of the area in a single route . |
| 29 | Engineers often introduce into factories new electronic machinery not because it is better than the old methods but to give management the upper hand over the workers |
| 30 | For this reason , inverse ratchets have been used in the past , to give management the maximum proportion of Newco 's equity at the outset , which reduces if the business does not achieve defined profit targets . |