Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd like if I may , to take this opportunity of paying tribute to the er helpful , cooperative attitude that the auditing practices board displayed in what were often long and very complex discussions and to thank them for the clear and helpful statement with which they shortly er plan to issue er to er accompany these order and to bring them into practical effect . |
| 2 | Sir David Wilson , in his annual address to the Legislative Council in October 1989 announced that the government was to embark upon a £10,000 million development project to build a new airport , to expand its container port facilities and to construct extensive transport links to connect them to the urban and industrial areas . |
| 3 | I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues . |
| 4 | No such fears limited them in the 1880s and 1890s . |
| 5 | Derek , just keep up the pressure , just demonstrate how we got them by the short and curlies and |
| 6 | ‘ But you want more outlets for KITS and you want them in the best and most expensive locations . ’ |
| 7 | Whereas Catherine the Great had confined them to the western and southern borderlands of the empire and Alexander I had encouraged them to consider economic diversification and cultural assimilation , Nicholas intervened in their lives more dramatically . |
| 8 | Further questions on unemployment ‘ people do n't want training they want jobs ’ , homelessness and the NHS left Mr Major a little wobbly but provided him with the best and closing line of the night . |
| 9 | You now , he , he 's had , I 'm just keeping him on the straight and narrow while he 's on remission . |
| 10 | She hopes it 'll rid her of the physical and emotional pain . |
| 11 | At Pace 's 57th St space until 17 October , Claes Oldenburg has returned to the possibilities of human scale sculptures of harps , saxophones , scent bottles , a tie etc after his monumental commissions that have occupied him since the 1980s and which include ‘ Match Cover ’ in the Olympic village at Barcelona . |
| 12 | So we referred it to the confed and er we had the officers down and the matter was resolved and we got our increase and it was acceptable by everybody . |
| 13 | We have the kitchen middens to inform us about the former and the dolmens and passage graves — both resting places and scenes of ancestor worship — to inform us of the latter . |
| 14 | You take one or two , having studied the collectors of the world , and the highly professional fences of the antique market , and place them where they 'll bring you in the best and safest return . |
| 15 | While Blanche tries to pass him in one of the passages he grabs her and he hurts her in the cruellest and most brutal way . |
| 16 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 17 | Even though its evolutionary course was eventually destined to lead it into the complicated and probably costly distortions involved in having two eyes on one side , even though the skate way of being a flat fish might ultimately have been the best design for bony fish too , the would-be intermediates that set out along this evolutionary pathway apparently did less well in the short term than their rivals lying on their side . |
| 18 | Seaforth also tops the line 's efficiency league , ahead of European ports of call , and ACL uses it as the first and last calling point to take advantage of the growing links with the Mediterranean , Northern Europe , the Baltic States and Ireland . |
| 19 | But this was because it was one-sided , they used to lock it from the outside and there was a catch on the inside as they could put in . |
| 20 | What is surprising is not that the rural past should be called up , but that the writer should invest it with the imaginative and emotional power that he does . |
| 21 | One wasted so much time arguing with the body , urging it through the laborious and uncomfortable routine of physical existence — getting up , washing , shaving , even moving . |
| 22 | The hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) told us in the briefest and skimpiest of ways — that is to be expected from the new model Labour party — of the Labour party 's pledge to return to a policy of fair rates . |
| 23 | ‘ We really appreciate your responsibility and concern and would like to thank you for the clear and reasonable explanation given . ’ |
| 24 | We can stage a little comedy for ourselves if we pick out two expressions that I used in my last paragraph , and imagine ourselves presenting them to the startled and unwelcoming gaze of Max Beerbohm . |
| 25 | Godparents , these state that you should keep them on the straight and narrow |
| 26 | It had taken two of them to free me from the current and I was so relieved . |
| 27 | when you when you knew that he 'd got you by the short and curlies ? |
| 28 | Though he attempted a detailed rebuttal , chapter by chapter , Milton himself had to admit that ‘ Some men have by policy accomplished after death that revenge upon their enemies which in life they were not able ’ , and that ‘ they who before hated him for his high government , nay fought against him with displayed banners in the field , now applaud him for the wisest and most religious prince that lived ’ . |
| 29 | And I 'm thinking work on your , work on your hard drive and when you 've got it the way you want it and when you 've got it the way you want it save it to the floppy and |
| 30 | The Marshall Plan was supposedly open to all Europeans and in late June Molotov came to Paris to discuss it with the British and French foreign ministers , Ernest Bevin and Georges Bidault . |