Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such altered viruses can transduce non-replicating cells , including differentiated epithelial cells of the respiratory tract and elsewhere , and this has made them the chosen vectors for genetic therapy of cystic fibrosis . |
| 2 | Asked what has caused him the greatest difficulties as Prime Minister , Harold Macmillan is said to have replied : ‘ Events , my dear , events . ’ |
| 3 | He has read what the care-worn pebbles say , and he does n't like it . |
| 4 | " Having given you the best years of my life , I now appeal to your justice and well-known liberality for a retiring pension , humbly requesting that in the event of my death the same may be continued to my child for his education till he attains 15 years of age , he being now in his 7th year . " |
| 5 | I say I would have found you the cheapest ones , and they were good quality ones as well , you know you go to some of these garden centres and |
| 6 | They could have followed us the four hours to Dieppe in the hope of picking up trade on the way back ; but that makes for a ten-hour day . |
| 7 | The plan of ‘ systematization ’ if it had been carried through would have left them the only repositories of folk-culture and architecture , since the threefold slogan ‘ Systematization — Modernization — Civilization ’ would have left little of what remained unscarred . |
| 8 | They 've given me the main facts . |
| 9 | It would be typical of Jacqui 's naivety to believe that she was dealing with an honest man who had given her the only copies in existence . |
| 10 | When an animal is brought in , especially an otter which is very nervous , we 've taught them the basic techniques of how to save them . |
| 11 | So I 've shown you the good points and the bad points of it , I think it 's well worth using . |
| 12 | DeVore who had shown him the top-security files detailing the deals Klaus Ebert had struck with various Companies to destroy Curval 's own enterprise . |
| 13 | In preparing my speech I recalled ( as the reader also may ) the occasion during my first watch in Tartar when the first lieutenant had shown me the various instruments on the bridge , and that when I asked why one had a canvas cover , he had said , ‘ Oh , that 's the Mountbatten station-keeping gear , and we keep it covered because the captain finds it quite useless . ’ |
| 14 | The opposition parties blamed the scale of their defeat on the repeat of " miscalculations " and " lack of co-ordination " which , they claimed , had cost them the 1990 elections . |
| 15 | New problems had arisen which the old parties , with their controversies over free trade or the gold standard seemed unable to solve . |
| 16 | But he 's told me the main months . |
| 17 | This is a memo to Caroline at Aiden Mouth Good evening Caroline , can I refer you to Aiden Mouth , invoice number A four hundred which is linked to invoice number one , nine , O , seven , six , paragraph invoice where total is one , sorry , seventeen thousand , one hundred and six kilos , of which Aran A R A N contributes twelve thousand , eight hundred and ninety two kilos , which is seventy five point three seven percent of the total weight , stop , in your invoice number A four hundred you have charged us the full charges , whereas we are only liable for seventy five point three seven percent of the New Zealand to U K charges , dash , am I not correct , question mark . |