Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | During his lunch-hour I give him the last orange , a biro and three lollipops , all I can muster , and wish him a happy birthday . |
| 3 | In other words , it is the poll tax crossed with a capital value tax — a roof tax crossed with a head tax — a cross-bred monster which gives us the worst of all worlds . |
| 4 | At the German border we were helped by a German trucker who got us the required stamps . |
| 5 | It takes a load off their mind they know who the new owners are going to be . |
| 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 | I mean I tried it out at work I show you the this is what they used at work . |
| 8 | It is never an intellectual exercise which leaves everything the same . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In 1861 Crookes made the discovery which brought him the necessary eminence ; he identified the new element thallium . |
| 11 | You will get the lazy child who copies what the next child is doing and these copiers must be helped to think for themselves . |
| 12 | In response to the unasked question she handed them the last cans . |
| 13 | ‘ No wonder they call us the black Irish ! ’ |
| 14 | The same story you told me the last time we met , ’ she said with a sneer . |
| 15 | Jonathan always thinks that what he says is so fantastic that he 's got to say it twice in case you missed it the first time round . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Late that night I ask myself the age-old question . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The reasons for the widespread development of the particular form of alphabetic literacy evident in Greece must clearly be sought in the social structure ; Goody and Watt , however , insist that ‘ considerable importance must surely be attributed to the intrinsic advantages of the Greek adaptation of the Semitic alphabet , an adaptation which made it the first comprehensively and exclusively phonetic system tor transcribing human speech ’ ( ibid. pp. 40–1 ) . |
| 21 | Yes , all that rhythm , one day you have it the next you do n't , and er Lawrence has certainly got it today , you can tell by just looking at a bowler running in , if he 's easy and relaxed , Lawrence I suppose never really looks relaxed when he 's belting into bowl , but he 's clicked he 's , he 's right at the crease . |
| 22 | I was surprised how well behaved the cat was on the bank for it hardly moved , out with the camera , click and back she went none the worse for her mistake . |
| 23 | Oh yeah , I love the , the mixed of border you call it the mixed of border no , yes ? |
| 24 | They agree that theological discourse does not make sense in the terms of ordinary language , but whereas for one this effectively consigns theology to the dustbin , for the other it gives it the same sort of status as speaking in tongues . |
| 25 | It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons . |
| 26 | This is a combined account for borrowing and saving which gives you the automatic right to borrow money . |
| 27 | Boston ( 1086–1113 ) too is a planted town , its plan related to the curving banks of the River Witham along which came the trade which made it the second most prosperous town after London by 1206 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was Nanny who told me the rotten news . |
| 30 | The next morning we woke none the worse for our terrible experience . |