Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I became Red Hat the clown and travelled among the street people ( in Europe ) , a little drunk , but not crazy drunk in those days . |
| 2 | I felt tremendous guilt the whole time , I felt so ashamed of these terrible thoughts locked inside me . |
| 3 | Maybe you will be one day , after you get rich prospecting the asteroids . ’ |
| 4 | She watched Victorine grease the cake tin . |
| 5 | They done magic painting the other night . |
| 6 | Thatcher 's friends , such as former United Biscuits boss Sir Hector Laing , used to implore her to give British industry the kind of support that was rather more consistent than those who bought and sold its shares in the City . |
| 7 | And when he became Prime Minister the recession intensified . |
| 8 | Hughlings Jackson ( 1874 ) was of the opinion that though the left hemisphere was responsible for what he termed propositional speech the right hemisphere could undertake " the automatic revival " of words , particularly under conditions of great emotion . |
| 9 | The actions of the central authorities , in the event , served to rally local opinion still more closely around the nationalist leaderships , and when the issue of full independence was put to the republican populations in the spring of 1991 it received overwhelming endorsement The Lithuanian vote , in February , produced a majority of over 90 per cent on an 84 per cent turnout ; in Latvia and Estonia , in March , there were majorities for independence of 74 and 78 per cent on a similar turnout . |
| 10 | When it meets real resistance the army will recoil and break . ’ |
| 11 | The stoma care nurse was therefore careful to show no revulsion when changing the bag and explained to Mr Reynolds that the faecal fluid passing through the colostomy was not a permanent feature and that when he recommenced solid food the colostomy would produce more formed faeces . |
| 12 | It gave Spinal Tap the inspiration for ‘ Stonehenge ’ , but otherwise the Reading Festival must have barely registered beyond ‘ laughing stock ’ status in the minds of Barbara 's ‘ intelligent , discerning ’ young music fans . |
| 13 | If , for example , the poll tax were to be replaced by a proportional income tax , this would in general change the tax burden on the median person , and hence — assuming that he remains decisive change the voting outcome . |