Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SNP , if it maintains its principles , need change nothing to collect the electoral windfall left by Labour 's rush to the right . |
| 2 | He could double and halve small numbers , decompose the calculation into components and recombine them to find the solution . |
| 3 | Trust me to choose the one man that would make it impossible . |
| 4 | ‘ Trust me to pick the most expensive . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I mean , they get these ideas and these bees in their bonnets and try and make everyone think the same way , and they change all the rules and upset everything , and Freud got it wrong in one way and Marx got it wrong in another . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Why Sir , they blind still those they take , And make them tell the stories of their lives , Which known , they do accordingly . |
| 9 | I just make them see the colour going up the stem of a plant . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The government is now devising methods to enable them to use the welfare state to control people and make them tow the line . |
| 12 | At best , they have an instinctive feeling for what will please people and make them like the product . |
| 13 | The balloonists will need the clothes that make them resemble the Michelin man . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 … ’ |
| 15 | erm make me explain the difference between irony and sarcasm . |
| 16 | ‘ If you make me leave the table , Hughie , I shall go straight down into the kitchen . |
| 17 | Then my father swung me up out of the sledge high above his head and down again , trying to distract me , to make light of what had happened and make me see the funny side of it . |
| 18 | I recall that during my last six months service I had the magnificent sum of £6/5/ ( £6.25 now ) to spend on myself . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | because I think er Mr 's motion is erm , similar to er Rosie 's erm except that , I mean I think what we 're actually saying is that we do actually have a number of waste planning sort of policy panel , er and this is something look , needs to be looked at in , in some detail , erm and if we just do it via a sort of straight report to the Environment Committee and I mean look at the sort of agenda we 've got today er you know how much time can we spend on the details so I mean I hope the Liberal Democrats would accept that erm yes it will obviously come to the Environment Committee eventually er but that it actually should go to the Waste Planning to the Policy panel and other bits no doubt to the Waste Disposal sort of Sub Committee for this is the policy er committee of course . |
| 21 | I mean I remember the waste paper which was organized by the girl guides and the boy scouts in the town . |
| 22 | I mean I hate the way she stands behind somebody mouths and |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | Yeah I I I mean I got the point , but er where does it take the building industry or the district . |
| 27 | 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 ! |
| 28 | Well yeah , but I mean I got the si it 's another you ca n't afford it to live then ! |
| 29 | I mean I got the Maxwell I mean I think Mum got that . |
| 30 | I think I mean I got the impression on several occasions that he 's actually quite nervous in the post . |