Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopefully they will go there as champions but I would love to see them win the Irish Cup , ’ said Flanagan . |
| 2 | He had heard of me from some of his colleagues and asked to see me to discuss the Labour Party 's decision in relation to the litigation it had brought , with my guidance , against the Manchester Guardian as a result of the leaks from the National Executive . |
| 3 | do you see what I mean , right , sit and re-question close , right you can close them on ee do you want to include the extra window for two hundred pound , you follow me you 've hit them with a price you want to close them , right and you sit and do the paperwork and you just say to them do you want me to include the extra window for two hundred pounds because you 've already said to them you , you give an extra , do you follow me ? |
| 4 | right with an extra window , whatever about the money , like Mrs what 's her name , so you 've nearly closed her on the conservatory you do all the paper , your order close form on the conservatory and you say to her , right , cos you 're working your sums out , do you want me to include the extra window for two hundred pounds ? |
| 5 | ‘ I 've mapped out a route to take you round , but are you sure you do n't want me do the actual deliveries ? |
| 6 | The SNP , if it maintains its principles , need change nothing to collect the electoral windfall left by Labour 's rush to the right . |
| 7 | Made them envy the lucky swells who would be escorting her to nightclubs and restaurants , but also gave them a sense that she was n't stuck up , that she was a genuine person . |
| 8 | Personal experiences made them reject the new truism that the children of fatherless families become delinquent . |
| 9 | But I did wonder , after a year or more , how it was that he and Mme G expected me to use the public baths rather than offer me the convenience of the bathroom in the pavillon . |
| 10 | Maggie stared at him and Ana held out her hand , allowing them to see the glittering ring at last . |
| 11 | The question , therefore , was how to satisfy the aspirations of the political groupings , without allowing them to gain the upper hand ; how to make use of their mobilizing capacities , without these being used to ends other than those approved by the Commander-in-Chief , Generalísimo Franco . |
| 12 | The elections were conducted under a new electoral law passed by the NUP-controlled Assembly in October 1989 , under which additional seats were given to the larger parties , thus allowing them to gain the maximum number of seats with the minimum of votes . |
| 13 | Surely they would n't make them go the whole distance in the dark ? |
| 14 | Right , now they 're both ethers try and name them first in naming them take the biggest hydro-carbon chunk that you can find and pretend that that was an alkane so the smaller chunk then becomes the substituant . |
| 15 | Trust me to choose the one man that would make it impossible . |
| 16 | My thanks to David Bogie , studio manager and Fish for their time and patience — and for allowing me to visit the Funny Farm . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | All of which prompted the following official question from Liberal Democrat housing spokesman Frank Doran : ‘ That in view of the danger which faces council members from drowning and/or mugging , arrangements be made to provide members with wet suits and powerful torches to enable them to visit the amphibious staff on that floor of the building . ’ |
| 19 | For those without a car , there are daily coach tours to enable them to visit the surrounding areas . |
| 20 | The Underwriters should be advised of any cases where under-insurance exists , to enable them to take the appropriate action . |
| 21 | More engineering has to be built into these units than in lower temperature ones to enable them to withstand the higher temperature . |
| 22 | In the meantime , the banks which lent the money to the dealers to enable them to pay the vast prices of the boom period are being very patient in waiting for their money , as it was partly their fault that a bubble economy was created in Japan . |
| 23 | I was pleased when he asked me to do the test-flying programme for him and I had no qualms in agreeing , as I knew him to be a meticulous engineer . |
| 24 | I think he was surprised by my reaction , so he asked me to lunch the next day . |
| 25 | When Deutsche Grammophon asked me to record the Alpine Symphony , I warned them that it would be very expensive . |
| 26 | My right hon. Friend the Member for Shoreham ( Sir R. Luce ) asked me to consider the standard spending assessments . |
| 27 | I gave similar advice when Harold Wilson asked me to advise the Labour Party about their behaviour in the matter . |
| 28 | So I suppose it was frustration that led me to break the cardinal rule of any diplomat behind the Iron Curtain in the good old days . |
| 29 | One officer , a really nice screw , a senior officer called Mrs [ R ] , understood why I wanted to be moved off the pregnant house and got me moved the next day . |
| 30 | It 's helping them to understand the immense pressures on them to stay forever in the closet . |