Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its proximity to another , larger , Binns store in Middlesbrough only made it the obvious candidate for the axe . |
| 2 | I would have understand if he 'd dived and got out their way and the wind just blew it the other end . |
| 3 | Leith hardly recognised herself the next day when , with her usual free-flowing locks fastened severely in a knot at the back of her head , she donned a pair of plain glass , horn-rimmed spectacles , and surveyed the result . |
| 4 | Bah , the professor always gives me the dirty jobs while he plays with his monster . |
| 5 | I would be grateful if you could confirm your acceptance of this proposal , and I will take necessary steps here to pay you the first overseas royalty . |
| 6 | Gould virtually admitted it the other day . ’ |
| 7 | I shall not follow the hon. Member for Newry and Armagh ( Mr. Mallon ) who spoke about Ireland , because I am not qualified to do so , except to say that Ireland recently gave us the best rugby match in the world cup . |
| 8 | He soon became a permanent fixture in our Southern and United League teams and his delicate ball-playing skills rapidly earned him the quaint nickname ‘ Lady ’ , and a special place in the affections of Palace supporters . |
| 9 | Because the market for meals is in competitive equilibrium we saw that the marginal cost curve for films also told us the marginal value of the meals being sacrificed to make the last film . |
| 10 | And erm Y equals X squared , and that 's Y and that 's an X. Then turn it the other way up to get X equals Y squared , and now that 's the Y and this is the X. |
| 11 | And in that moment , Joseph suddenly knew who the three men were ; only Katherine Lundy 's men would be enquiring after Patrick . |
| 12 | Well it was like the two soldiers and the one person just holds it the other person just tried and knock the head off . |
| 13 | Will my right hon. Friend totally reject what the hon. Member for Great Grimsby ( Mr. Mitchell ) has just said , bearing in mind that only four days ago my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State was in my constituency , which adjoins Great Grimsby , to announce that Kimberly-Clark from America was to build a factory at Barton-upon-Humber involving 770 new jobs , thanks to the Government 's industrial policy and a large Government grant to that company ? |
| 14 | What I do n't do is pretend to be a socialist , organise five hundred pound a head er ticket dinners as Neil Kinnock does , champagne and then have the gall next day to go to on the nineteenth of July , on the very day when saw what the Labour Group are doing to this city . |
| 15 | The BBC again found itself the unwilling accomplice of the advertisers . |
| 16 | The AFO now called itself the Anti-Fascist People 's Freedom League ( AFPFL ) and its general secretary and political spokesman was Thakin Than Tun . |
| 17 | Every weekend now , tens of thousands , perhaps hundreds of thousands of people are taking tablets containing unknown substances , and God alone knows what the real long-term consequences of that are likely to be . |
| 18 | But serious or lighthearted Central News always brought you the offbeat , like the catfish who loved to be fed by hand . |
| 19 | Next month even brings us The Good Cat Food Guide ( Chatto & Windus , £4.99 ) . |
| 20 | QUITE HOW it happened is open to public conjecture , but from being ‘ just another band ’ a few milliseconds back , the sumptuous , swaggering pearls of suave currently referred to as Suede today find themselves the red-hottest property on a lukewarm market . |
| 21 | The owner then swapped me the beautiful picture with which he had boarded his shed window . |
| 22 | CompuAdd 's prices already offer you the best value in the business . |
| 23 | Burton always thought it the finest thing he ever did . |
| 24 | Mrs Green also sent me the cardboard box in which the gift had come and , curious to find out more about the cake 's origins , I rang the Yorkshire Farm Bakery . |
| 25 | Then his face contorted in pain , and she knew instinctively with infinite relief that it was the face of a man reluctantly denying himself the sexual release he patently craved by wielding a superhuman control . |
| 26 | The researchers then set themselves the unenviable task of positioning 48 aphids about 1 cm away from the leaves of both the wild and cultivated plants , making sure that the insects were pointing towards the leaves . |
| 27 | But organisation charts only give us the bare bones of the organisation 's structure and we should not be carried away with the idea that official descriptions tell us all . |
| 28 | It has become a familiar complaint of managers this season , dissatisfied that the ‘ brave new world ’ of the Premier League merely offers them the same problems as the old . |
| 29 | Durkin soon made himself the principal object of attraction . |
| 30 | AN ACCORD aiming to shake off local government 's image of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing was signed in Essex yesterday . |