Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I first heard the first noise I thought what the bloody hell 's that and I turned the sound down . |
| 2 | Consequently there are no cases in our books which show what the appropriate determinate sentence is specifically for that offence . |
| 3 | At the German border we were helped by a German trucker who got us the required stamps . |
| 4 | It takes a load off their mind they know who the new owners are going to be . |
| 5 | This was done by having drivers themselves indicate what the important details of the stimuli previously used in fact were . |
| 6 | One day Tom came to see me and poured out a story which told me the other side of his ambitious , over-achieving self . |
| 7 | The swiftlets which produce what the Chinese consider the most desirable edible birds ' nests roost in caves beneath these cliffs . |
| 8 | The quartet carries an instrumental arsenal which gives it the necessary weight to produce the ominous , bass-heavy sounds that accompany Max Schreck 's marvellously decrepit , zombie-like portrayal of Count Dracula . |
| 9 | In 1861 Crookes made the discovery which brought him the necessary eminence ; he identified the new element thallium . |
| 10 | ‘ No wonder they call us the black Irish ! ’ |
| 11 | The project scientist who sent me the disappointed and sceptical account of all this said that there were shrieks from the store room , but not of success . |
| 12 | Hailed as the troubled comic genius who gave us the manic hotel-keeper Basil Fawlty and the Ministry of Silly Walks , he 's also the kingpin of the enduring Pythons and a multi-millionaire businessman . |
| 13 | Robin Reid , a betting shop manager from Runcorn who calls himself the Grim Reaper , guaranteed his country 's first boxing medal . |
| 14 | You add on that fifty percent or whatever it happens to be to the hundred percent which gives you the new figure . |
| 15 | Late that night I ask myself the age-old question . |
| 16 | Er I felt , I 've been after Danny for nearly twelve months to come see and not been able to get him on the night I want him the only night he was able , was available was I think it was one night when we had something else on I ca n't remember what it was . |
| 17 | Oh yeah , I love the , the mixed of border you call it the mixed of border no , yes ? |
| 18 | Why we was paying the bill actually we paid to Sunday us connect us the following Friday |
| 19 | He was everything that the Hildebrandine Church abhorred , but he had virtues which won him the warm friendship of Marbod , the talented bishop of Rennes , and of the greatest canonist of his day , Ivo of Chartres . |
| 20 | It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons . |
| 21 | This is a combined account for borrowing and saving which gives you the automatic right to borrow money . |
| 22 | Any theory of sentence production , then , will be a theory which describes what the constructive processes are which , when applied to some thought which a speaker wishes to convey to someone else , result in the formulation and production of an appropriate sentence . |
| 23 | ‘ In the psychic realm it means that we are free to follow any set of images and symbols which give us the right mental feedback — and the State encourages us . |
| 24 | It was Nanny who told me the rotten news . |
| 25 | They listened to people who knew nothing about the game , to people who exploited them , people who taught them the wrong things . |
| 26 | The people who brought us the old-school Arkwright football shirts are now bringing us Subbuteo merchandise complete with the classic Subbuteo falcon logo . |
| 27 | Made by the Japanese firm of Saga ( the same people who brought us the Lowden-esque Trameleuc acoustics , plus reissues of Maccaferri gypsy jazz guitars and Regal wooden-bodied resophonics ) these new acoustics sell under the name of O.C. Smith and promise an interesting combination of European but strongly American-influenced design , together with Japanese efficiency and affordability . |
| 28 | since I am one of those people who do something the wrong way round , if there is the slightest opportunity , I also inserted the needle incorrectly the first time only spotting my mistake when I read on and found that I could not follow the next instruction if my needle was at the back of the work . |
| 29 | Perhaps Richard had the best of it : at Queen Eleanor 's court he encountered troubadours and intellectuals who taught him the social graces . |
| 30 | Morality and religion open the door to oppression but in focusing so sharply on the woman 's role they make her the central symbol of the culture . |