Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Erm I do recognise some faces , I know some of you recognise me and eh cos we 've done quite a lot of things together , but this afternoon what I 'm going to tell you about is how I fit in with Council , I do n't think any of you know that or know what the Local Government Unit is . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly , considerable pressure was put on the Conservative government to take some action to cope with the problem , though it was neither clear nor agreed what the basic problem was . |
| 3 | Do this and see what the balance on the P&L comes to . |
| 4 | I asked him to let me have his agreement to this and give me the destination . " |
| 5 | When I see the kid alive , I dismantle this and give you the stones . |
| 6 | ‘ It was only intended as a short-term measure , ’ Schaffer objected , ‘ to keep the valley clear and give us the best possible chance for a manhunt . ’ |
| 7 | So I think they 're right to be suspicious , and it 's right for those people who feel they have a role it 's up to them to make it appear interesting and to show them the relevance . |
| 8 | He broke the gun in half and showed us the cylinder filled with six red plastic capsules . |
| 9 | ‘ Bad cooks — and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen — have delayed human development longest and impaired it the most ’ . |
| 10 | It was liking someone one minute and hating them the next . |
| 11 | With this in mind we take a look at the kind of thing the cold weather walker should be wearing on page 26 and bring you the latest thermals on page 24 . |
| 12 | Brown Owl had put all three into the same Six and called them the Ghillie Dhu . |
| 13 | If we want to keep the best scientists and the best engineers in this country , we 'd better do two things : we 'd better attract them with good pay and we 'd better train them right and give them the proper facilities . |
| 14 | Put it on low and leave it the night and day cos it was left on for a week once was n't it ? |
| 15 | Q : We paid for our holiday in Paphos , Cyprus , in January , but 36 hours before we were due to leave our tour operator , Saga Holidays , rang to tell us the Roman Hotel in Paphos was double-booked and to offer us the first week at another hotel which was , in our opinion , inferior . |
| 16 | Or just complete and send us the application form overleaf , and we shall send your membership card and pack within 28 days . |
| 17 | Or just complete and send us the application form overleaf , and we shall send your membership card and pack within 28 days . |
| 18 | Or just complete and send us the application form overleaf , and we shall send your membership card and pack within 28 days . |
| 19 | Go on , Emma snatch that and read me the Gilbert and Sullivan clue . |
| 20 | " An applicant who is not an individual natural person " means bodies either corporate or incorporate which the law recognises as having a separate legal persona . |
| 21 | Now here you got minus six plus four take the smaller from the larger and give it the sign of a larger . |
| 22 | When the signs are the same if they 're two pluses you add them and it 's plus if they 're both minus you add them and it 's minus here you take the smaller from the larger and give it the sign of a larger . |
| 23 | Call us on o-four-one , three-three-two , seven thousand and tell us the gist of the story . |
| 24 | The Sunday Life , barely four years old , has had its own share of successes , with a sales rise which outstripped every other national daily and weekly paper in the British Isles in 1992 and won it the Newspaper Society Sunday Award . |
| 25 | See people at San Carlos hungry and given them the rest . |
| 26 | It sold more than a million copies in Britain alone and won me the Billboard award for best singer/songwriter in America . |
| 27 | This feels wholesome and gives me the confidence to take up issues of racism and sexism in the Lesbian and Gay Workers ' Group and issues of sexism and heterosexism in the Black Workers ' Group , within the organization we work for . |
| 28 | I but saw him the once , and yet can not bear for him to despise me so . |
| 29 | If possible have an alternative date available and give them the option of telephoning to change their original appointment . |
| 30 | There is no doubt in de Man 's mind that the image plays a central role in Proust 's thematic opposition , but when one follows " Proust 's own injunction " to submit the image to the " test of truth " , the function of the image is subverted : " statements or strategies that tended to remain unnoticed become apparent and undo what the figure seemed to have accomplished " . |