Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If the casual worker can not make himself available for the full length of time requested , he is unlikely to be offered the assignment , although exceptions will be made if the organisation is facing a tight labour market and can only cover its manpower requirements by bringing in " part-timers " . |
| 32 | ‘ Well , my dear , Travis is pretty much a law unto himself , ’ Jonas pacified , watching his grandson make himself comfortable on the top step . |
| 33 | Her own self-confidence made her impervious to the intended snubs . |
| 34 | They ignored me safe in the open field where the old ridge and furrow strips and the flatter headlands where the plough was turned were clearly silhouetted by the sun . |
| 35 | They were evidently hearing something different from the rest of us now , for we would watch them slow-dance to the fastest beat , and then , on the next record , see them execute perfect and elaborate improvised arabesques , all fast footwork and impassioned arms , in the gaps of a slow blues . |
| 36 | they would have to arrest everyone responsible for the present crises . |
| 37 | Someone once told him that horse manure in his wellington boots would make him grow taller , but the boys at school had made fun of him and Mr Sunderland , the headmaster , had called him a stupid gullible boy and made him scrape his boots and wash them clean in the outside drain and scrub his feet in hot water and carbolic soap . |
| 38 | Let her go to her grave imagining me defiant to the last . |
| 39 | RICHARD GOUGH and Trevor Steven will be examined by Rangers ' medical staff today but the injuries sustained at Fir Park last night have made them doubtful for the European tie with FC Brugge . |
| 40 | I wish that the hon. Gentleman had made himself familiar with the two judgments in the case — those of Mr. Justice Simon Brown and of the Master of the Rolls . |
| 41 | He could hardly ease himself free from the great stinking weight . |
| 42 | It was Barbara Castle who remarked , when Mrs Thatcher became leader of the Conservatives in 1975 , that power had made her pretty for the first time . |
| 43 | He had hardly ever seen her naked since the first days of their marriage , and she had n't been anxious to show herself even then . |
| 44 | Then the goat had made itself evident in the warm air . |
| 45 | She simply was n't destined to get any rest , so she might as well do something useful with the empty hours . |
| 46 | ‘ Men have authority over women because Allah has made one superior to the other , and because they spend their wealth to maintain them ’ says the Koran . |
| 47 | He 'd done something dishonest for the first time in his business life , and it sat uneasily on his conscience . |
| 48 | She felt them go round her , strong and decided against her dress , beneath her coat , and then he put his mouth on hers and began to kiss her , and for a moment she felt that she was flying , and the next minute she was clawing herself free with the superhuman strength of panic and stumbling for the door . |
| 49 | ‘ Go and see who it is , will you , there 's a duck , ’ requested Constance , who had just made herself comfortable on the swinging seat . |
| 50 | Help us to cleanse it and hold it safe from the Godless forces of Communism that surround it and threaten it from within . |
| 51 | Lawrence played it cagey after the goalless draw against Blackburn Rovers . |
| 52 | Instead , the definition of democracy itself has been revised , adapted , narrowed and diluted to render it compatible with the persisting belief in the necessity or the virtue of rule by elites , with an equally persistent mistrust of " the masses " and , perhaps most important of all , to render it compatible with the existing political systems of the Western world which call themselves " democracies " . |
| 53 | Instead , the definition of democracy itself has been revised , adapted , narrowed and diluted to render it compatible with the persisting belief in the necessity or the virtue of rule by elites , with an equally persistent mistrust of " the masses " and , perhaps most important of all , to render it compatible with the existing political systems of the Western world which call themselves " democracies " . |
| 54 | ( The language of the extract has been modernized to render it accessible to the general reader . |
| 55 | To summarize : although Paisley and the other ministers of the Free Presbyterian Church have always maintained a clear division between ‘ constitutional ’ and ‘ party ’ politics — the Church has a position on the constitution but does not back any particular party — the close historical and biographical links between Church and Party have made it impossible for the Free Presbyterian Church to avoid either being tagged with the label of being the DUP at prayer or on occasion being disrupted by the spill-over of tensions from the Party into the Church . |
| 56 | WEDGWOOD has made it big on the small screen with greatly increased television coverage . |
| 57 | So the debonair Simon had made it big in the financial world . |
| 58 | I have made it clear to the right hon. Gentleman and to the House that we believe that the Union between the United Kingdom and Scotland is important . |
| 59 | However , Ada had made it clear at the first round of talks that the commission had no power to negotiate changes , which had to be approved by referendum . |
| 60 | Mr Hyslop said he had made it clear during the 1987 campaign that any political party was free to advertise . |