Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The camcorder has given everyone the chance to star in their own home movies . |
| 2 | " Yes , I met someone the other night who made a sort of suggestion about a possible job of some kind . " |
| 3 | The call would have given someone the chance to replace the spare set in the security cupboard here . |
| 4 | She was sure that at some point she 'd given someone the cold shoulder and hurt them badly without noticing . |
| 5 | John Dobbin , defending , said the interviewer ‘ should have expected someone the age of her own father ’ . |
| 6 | For one way of denying someone the respect to which he is entitled is by failing to treat him as an autonomous agent , for example , by unreasonably restricting the range of alternative courses of action from which he can choose . |
| 7 | ’ Aye , ye mentioned somethin' the last time I wis up . ’ |
| 8 | A actually I visited somebody the other day and you just forget you just forget . |
| 9 | The number of applications for judicial review has none the less increased significantly over the past decade . |
| 10 | In the last few years , South Africa , though a rich country compared with its northern neighbours , has none the less been hit by international economic trends , including declining gold prices , as well as by pressures of sanctions . |
| 11 | The first of these is the promise of resource-based learning ( RBL ) , which , though unfulfilled in the majority of the curriculum in most schools , has none the less had some influence on the pattern of work . |
| 12 | What occurred none the less fell well short of the Community 's original proposals . |
| 13 | Well there 's Sian , they probably want one the same for Nicola , Jill |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Against the use of a letter it must be noted that it is not easy to write a short but very clear letter explaining everything the informant may want to know , and if the recipient decides that she or he does not want to co-operate then she/he is warned in advance of the interviewer 's call . |
| 18 | Still , it makes for some interesting innuendo as he admits he has something the other girls have n't . |
| 19 | Her great painful and ecstatic climaxes make us at last to know something the man has always wanted to know … |
| 20 | They were also at the stage when they still found funny voices funny , and Charles had his best audience in years for his Welsh , developed for Under Milk Wood ( ‘ A production which demonstrated everything the theatre can offer , except talent ’ — Nottingham Evening Post ) , his Cornish , as used in Love 's Labour 's Lost ( ‘ Charles Paris 's Costard was about as funny as an obituary notice ’ — New Statesman ) and the voice he had used as a Chinese Broker 's Man in Aladdin ( ‘ My watch said that the show only lasted two and a half hours , so I 've taken it to be repaired ’ — Glasgow Herald ) . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ My dad looks very like me , he has everything the same as me — even the same hair and freckles all over his face . |
| 23 | Has anyone the bottle to find out ? |
| 24 | I asked somebody the way out and she offered to show me . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And I remind this council of something I said a few years ago of an incident , incident concerning the Atherstone hunt in my ward where the hounds attacked the dogs of , a couple of dogs of a constituent of mine in his back garden totally uncontrolled , they were running amuck right across land in Ellistown this is nothing the hunt could do nothing the hunt tried to do they were too busy off still dashing ahead chasing the fox or what they thought was a fox . |
| 27 | A referendum on Maastricht would give everyone the opportunity both to understand it and to debate its implications themselves . |
| 28 | I understand the problems , but an armed intervention force would give everyone the opportunity to seek a political solution . |
| 29 | ‘ We do n't like anything that might give someone the idea to stick a poor fish in beer . |
| 30 | Is n't it usual to at least give someone the benefit of a hearing before passing judgement , Dr Grant ? ’ |