Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , after the kettle has boiled you pour the hot water into the cup and add the milk and stir it together and that 's how you make a cup of coffee . |
| 2 | From what he has heard he fears the worst about the likelihood of a quick turnaround on the field . |
| 3 | And the prophecy of Isaiah 61 : 1 , ‘ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me , for he has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor … ’ stands in Luke 's Gospel ( 4:18 ) , as a beacon shedding light over the whole of his ministry . |
| 4 | This completes a successful nine months for Gourlay which has seen her become the Scottish indoor and outdoor singles champion and now the world champion . |
| 5 | In terms of foreign investment in US carriers , the transportation secretary , Federico Pena , has said he favours the current 25 per cent limit on voting stock owned by foreign investors and the 49 per cent limit on their overall investment . |
| 6 | I have not been happy with my lateral movement and Pepe has helped me to rediscover the sweet science . ’ |
| 7 | The Schneiderei 's six-member managing committee of writers , musicians and visual artists ( Margaret Bozionek , Heinz Conrads , Jutta Rinas , Ingrid Roscheck , Manos Tsangaris and Thomas Witzmann ) abhor the description ‘ alternative ’ , but the collective 's soft-sell policy by which works are sold to further the gallery 's own activities rather than for profit has helped it to weather the uneasy times faced by traditional commercial galleries . |
| 8 | At one level this has enabled him to achieve the considerable feat of maintaining reasonably stable government for more than twenty years . |
| 9 | Amaury de Craon wrote to Edward II from Sablé in November 1323 telling him that the ‘ great uneasiness of heart that I feel as a result of the dispute between you and your brother the king of France , our lord , and a desire to find ways , according to my humble ability , to prevent it , has emboldened me to write the following things ’ . |
| 10 | Certainly the social sciences are seen to be the arbiters of revolutionary change which might somehow dismantle the police institution and its processes , and this has led it to negate the reforming social scientists , keeping them as outsiders beyond the system . |
| 11 | Now the European Institute of Technology — an industrial organisation founded by IBM Europe , AT&T , Enichem , Montedison and Philips — has asked it to handle the intellectual property rights for the scientific projects it supports in European institutions . |
| 12 | She has asked us to insert the following message |
| 13 | ‘ This application of emerging technology has allowed us to locate the 1993 exploration well with greater confidence and to facilitate early 1994 well location planning . ’ |
| 14 | This has allowed us to purify the wild type and mutant endonuclease enzyme and to analyse the effect of the temperature-sensitive mutation in vitro . |
| 15 | In video-taped evidence , Mr Reagan has admitted he approved the covert arms for hostages operation , that became known as the Iran Contra affair , although he says he did n't authorise his staff to break the law . |
| 16 | Beefy has backed himself to complete the 23-day marathon hike in 130 hours at odds of 16-1 . |
| 17 | When they had eventually managed to get him out of the house he 'd helped her to carry the remaining dishes from the dining-room , a thing he never did . |
| 18 | He 'd thought he had the longest living hamster in captivity . |
| 19 | So , once again , having committed itself to support the fictional or , at most , ‘ evolutionary ’ independence of Vietnam , the US was just as dependent as ever on France to make this vision a reality . |
| 20 | It was after ten when the long day ended , the king having busied himself visiting the wounded , including those from the enemy army ; he had , it soon appeared , decisively won the Battle of the Boyne for the loss of 500 men ; James 's casualties were put at 1600 . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , as I say , the worthy burghers of Oswaldston would not have asked me to spread the artistic products of my maturity before their admiring gaze if it had n't been for the Machin boom . |
| 22 | Readers of this column will have concluded I have the same hang-up about finding the perfect house . |
| 23 | The stern overseer would never have allowed her to distract the other children . |
| 24 | Men can not breastfeed babies , nor can they experience what it is like to have carried a child , however much their partners may have encouraged them to feel the moving infant inside the belly . |
| 25 | Can you mind roughly h how long it would have taken you to get the rough survey . |
| 26 | Blocking the BA/USAir deal would have required him to renounce the current aviation treaty between the two countries which would have been ‘ a very dramatic step ’ . |
| 27 | Blocking the BA/USAir deal would have required him to renounce the current aviation treaty between the two countries which would have been ‘ a very dramatic step ’ . |
| 28 | Nor , significantly , in the realm of religion does Jesus appear to have done anything to counter the inferior position in which women were placed . |
| 29 | His years as a sculptor had taught him to see the human figure in solid , three-dimensional form , and his people now have necks like columns , oval or elongated faces and noses sharply drawn , as if cut into the planes of the face . |
| 30 | A month later a high-ranking army officer had heard him deliver the following verdict on integration : " They are not Provenals or Languedocians . |