Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could double and halve small numbers , decompose the calculation into components and recombine them to find the solution . |
| 2 | Those too have been doubled and we are we trust them to appoint the magistrates upon whom we praise such responsibility and on whom we shall have such great praise . |
| 3 | And of course , That 's right yes , make them do the test first and of course , you may very well need some specialists depending again on as we said , whatever your team has got to do . |
| 4 | Why Sir , they blind still those they take , And make them tell the stories of their lives , Which known , they do accordingly . |
| 5 | I just make them see the colour going up the stem of a plant . |
| 6 | We have to tax those parking spaces , make them use the Park and Drive , but we 've got to get the carrot there first and the carrot is a much better operated Park and Drive . |
| 7 | The government is now devising methods to enable them to use the welfare state to control people and make them tow the line . |
| 8 | At best , they have an instinctive feeling for what will please people and make them like the product . |
| 9 | The balloonists will need the clothes that make them resemble the Michelin man . |
| 10 | ‘ Okay , blue-eyes , ’ I drawled , even though they were green , ‘ be difficult and make me twist the information from you until you scream for my kisses … ’ |
| 11 | erm make me explain the difference between irony and sarcasm . |
| 12 | ‘ If you make me leave the table , Hughie , I shall go straight down into the kitchen . |
| 13 | You were going to contact someone in ADSW ( I regret I forget the name ) with regard to the possibility of setting up some form of Communications Group representing all Departments in Scotland that would meet perhaps every quarter or half year . |
| 14 | I mean I remember the waste paper which was organized by the girl guides and the boy scouts in the town . |
| 15 | I mean I hate the way she stands behind somebody mouths and |
| 16 | Yes I I I Yeah sorry to interrupt , I mean I follow the arguments you 've used within the document but I the figure which the H H B F have attributed to vacant dwellings for example is just under two thousand five hundred . |
| 17 | Yeah I get I mean I get the impression if you 're thinking about you know , the thefts from the people , I mean a lot of the time is the guy who 's visiting the prostitute , does n't report to us if his wallet 's been stolen , for the simple fact he was visiting a prostitute . |
| 18 | I mean I get the impression that likes working for and myself and she likes her own sphere of influence right which is fair enough as far as it goes |
| 19 | That 'll be alright so cos he slid his my brief case and er I got all the way home , no problem at all , I 'd got newspaper under the back , so it did n't scratch the back when I come to come down Mill Road this lorry 's go , I mean I got the tail gate up and er I sort of looked in the mirror , I thought oh my goodness my tail gate , I could hear it so and I braked a bit sharp and that slid down and scratched along the dash board ! |
| 20 | I mean I got the Maxwell I mean I think Mum got that . |
| 21 | I think I mean I got the impression on several occasions that he 's actually quite nervous in the post . |
| 22 | Yeah I I I mean I got the point , but er where does it take the building industry or the district . |
| 23 | I mean I favour the using that because of the s I mean I like the idea of revisiting the competencies . |
| 24 | saw Bob and , I mean I passed the pub at a quarter past twelve . |
| 25 | Well , I mean I take the view that if we are going to erm have something on the agenda , I can telephone his secretary , I can write to him , anytime , which I 'm quite willing to do , I can not see the point in sending things through the post at twenty five P a time when we shall never see the man , and if he comes here |
| 26 | I du n no what the situation with Andrew is , cos I mean I heard the rumours that he was gon na for Cheam . |
| 27 | Now obviously if Isobel did that , she could write some notes in a form that was actually readable for you so that you could actually I mean I know the discussion would be more difficult but you would have quite a lot of information from her to go on . |
| 28 | Still well I mean I know the majority of it 's wood and there 's three large windows in it , and a door and erm the roof is this erm stuff it 's just like er plastic moulding but it 's double glazed bloody oven in there ! |
| 29 | And nobody Even the church I mean I know the church ca n't agree on anything at the moment , we 're sitting here just down the road of course , the general synod of the church of whatsit and the archbishop of thingummybob is sitting there over their muesli and cornflakes I should imagine at the moment , or a late brunch , erm n not saying anything . |
| 30 | But you know it surprises me I mean I know the church is , is closed and it 's been closed for a couple of years now and it looks a sight because now I do n't know how many members they 've got , at least a couple of them could go in there and cut all the brambles down . |