Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 61 | ‘ He 's angry and irritable and he 's made it clear from the very beginning that he does n't expect me to come up to scratch . ’ |
| 62 | Wonderful Members of Parliament , who , little more than twenty years before , had made themselves merry with the wild railroad theories of engineers , and given them the liveliest rubs in cross-examination , went down into the north with their watches in their hands , and sent on messages before by the electric telegraph , to say that they were coming Night and day the conquering engines rumbled at their distant work , or advancing smoothly to their journey 's end , and gliding like tame dragons into the allotted corners grooved out to the inch for their reception , stood bubbling and trembling there , making the walls quake , as if they were dilating with the secret knowledge of great powers yet unsuspected in them , and strong purposes not yet achieved . |
| 63 | Once you have made yourself familiar with the basic sewing processes , you will then be able to cope with any of the projects in this book . |
| 64 | But it has made us aware of the crusted , jewel-bright variety of Latin America behind things that more often lump its nations together . |
| 65 | Afterwards , Ruth could not remember that she had done anything unusual on the twenty-third of December . |
| 66 | But that was n't the end of it ; they had made up their minds to sample every diversion that Wickhams had to offer , and went on to explore the entire store , from Haberdashery , where Mabel bought some knicker-elastic , to Hardware , where Florrie could not resist a patent vegetable slicer which was being demonstrated by a lady in a snowy white apron , who showed them how the little gadget peeled apples , chipped potatoes , sliced onions and generally made itself invaluable to the busy housewife . |
| 67 | As part of its drive to improve its efficiency and make itself ready for the private sector should the Government decide to privatise it following the review of the nuclear industry next year , Scottish Nuclear recently appointed Charterhouse , the merchant bank , as its adviser . |
| 68 | Yeah , sorry … to be honest I do regard you Irish as the same as me ( whatever that is ! ) . |
| 69 | To discourage petty claims , most insurers make you liable for the first £25 . |
| 70 | But even when it does occur it does not provide too much of a problem , for the sea slugs are capable of quickly regenerating them ready for the next naïve fish to attack . |
| 71 | ‘ The Society can help keep them abreast of the latest news and put them in touch with others who have similar interests . ’ |
| 72 | He had picked up a group of experienced hunter-killers from the Phoenix NoGo , and turned them loose on the remaining sandrats . |
| 73 | Some of the same movements are repeated yet again in the final pas de deux , when the Prince raises her high above the glistening Stars before leading her away to the land where ‘ they lived happily ever after ’ , where all fairy tales should end . |
| 74 | He stated himself pleased with the general appearance and appointments of the unit . |
| 75 | His pictures vary in style : in his later days he showed himself capable of the common sort of conventionally flattering portrait , but , particularly from his earlier years in London , there exists a body of work demonstrating his great talent for lively detail and natural rather than conventional compositions . |
| 76 | The cream lace of her dress rustled softly as she moved towards him , the pearl and diamond earrings he had bought her gleaming against the dark honey tone of her neck . |
| 77 | We hope that this Update will keep you abreast of the latest developments in assessment and related issues . |
| 78 | It would like something similar to the G-24 that co-ordinates western aid to Eastern Europe . |
| 79 | ‘ If we do n't see something sensible in the next 24 hours then there is no point in carrying on , ’ he said . |
| 80 | She could n't quite tear herself free of the licensed dealing community . |
| 81 | After 300 years of Portuguese rule , Brazil declared herself independent on the 7th September 1822 , with her own monarch , the Portuguese Prince Regent , Dom Pedroh I. In 1899 , a year after the abolition of slavery in Brazil , a further step was taken to form a federal republic , the United States of Brazil . |
| 82 | The Lady Prioress raised tearful eyes , shook herself free from the clinging sisters and wiped her cheeks . |
| 83 | Barney might experience flashes of impatience and anger , say and do things he would later regret , but she could not believe him capable of the blind , destructive hatred that had driven the knife into Angy 's throat . |
| 84 | It took him 14 more laps before he could squeeze alongside Brundle , and run him wheel-to-wheel through the same right-left-right triple turn . |
| 85 | The fact that a power has no legal source does not render it unreviewable by the High Court if there are sound reasons for and no good reasons against such review . |
| 86 | A couple of hours of hard graft should see it ready for the next stage of its facelift , and might also tire her out enough to get some sleep . |
| 87 | My wife also read it and declared it superior to the equivalent magazine sent her by her old University — Oxford . |
| 88 | The staff of Pravda , the leading Soviet newspaper , declared themselves independent of the Communist Party and published their first non-partisan issue on 31 August . |
| 89 | That ought to be enough to bargain myself clear of the whole mess . |
| 90 | It is the cynicism in the design process that offends me ; the suggestion that there 's no point in designing anything special for the working classes because they do n't have any taste . |