Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] the big [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enjoy the ride down , let the wind fly through your hair , go with the flow , and wait for the big crash . |
| 2 | As a special mark of favour , Rainbow has brought Naomi to see the acting debut of a lesbian country-and-western heart-throb who 's branching out and sidling towards the big time . |
| 3 | Garrison Savanah has a few tales to tell … he won the big race at Cheltenham 3 years ago and tomorrow the Gloucestershire favourite will be off and running for the big prize at Newbury |
| 4 | I stopped and looked at the big house . |
| 5 | In no time at all , he was scrubbed shiny , dressed in his night-shift , and seated in the big armchair , with the heat from the fire drying his hair and making him feel all sleepy . |
| 6 | What happens to people ten years later who leave their small town and go to the big city to find work ? |
| 7 | The Persian closed the door and went to the big mirror on one wall . |
| 8 | George had switched to drinking coffee laced with cognac — ; ‘ The complete cycle , the disease and the cure in one simple package , ’ and Agnes had muttered something about vitamin C and gone across the big room to play a Mozart piano concerto on the stereo . |
| 9 | reduction in motor sales , caused the loss of 150,000 jobs in engineering , hit every high street in the land and resulted in the biggest fall in investment since 1932 . |
| 10 | WISE CHILDREN Angela Carter Carter 's obsession with performance gets a final airing as twin sister vaudeville actresses go to Hollywood and aim for the big time . |
| 11 | Since morning he had been in and out of the kitchen where Maggie and Mona were cleaning and tidying and preparing for the big meal . |
| 12 | The duvet wound itself around her as she turned and stretched in the big bed , her limbs languid with heat . |
| 13 | Together they had done all the things that she had wanted to do and never been allowed to : gone to Coney Island , licked lollipops on the front there , enjoyed herself in funfairs , and ridden on the Big Wheel . |
| 14 | I shifted my weight , angled left , and shot into the big Castle Surf which was building and adding to the wave I was on . |
| 15 | The Euro Cities Conference was also important because it was the founding of that organisation formally and it was important to go there and say to the big monopoly that 's emerging it 's |
| 16 | The Euro Cities Conference was also important because it was the founding of that organisation formally and it was important to go there and say to the big monopoly that 's emerging between some of the Western European cities , the big six , Birmingham , Barcelona , Frankfurt , Rotterdam , Milan and Strasbourg , that they were n't gon na get it all their own way and they were n't going to monopolise those funds that were available for links with Eastern Europe . |
| 17 | A rare chance to see our experiences as women validated and endorsed on the big screen in a powerful and yes , entertaining movie about a subject that matters profoundly to us . |
| 18 | Jumping to her feet and crossing to the big teapot which was keeping warm , Elizabeth answered , ‘ Yes , certainly . ’ |