Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowd began to swell a little and the man was joined by a friend . |
| 2 | If as a GP you are in somebody 's home and give a thrombolytic and the patient dies , you will be blamed . |
| 3 | It was only when Mary became a Christian that the devil came to stake a claim to his own property . |
| 4 | A FINANCIER who made a billion when the pound collapsed yesterday gave £32 million to charity . |
| 5 | So sorry can I just ask , so in effect you have n't shifted your ground from the view which you expressed in paragraph three point six of your submission where you 've just confirmed in fact that you 'd rather have a proper or the ability to make a sort of proper measured allocations , part of which would make provision or allow the facility to cater for major inward investment ? |
| 6 | Dot did n't have a milk-mug but the teacher lent her one . |
| 7 | She had soaked the leather to bend and shape it into the form of a small shoe , but her hands were sore and her back ached and she wondered briefly if there might be an easier way of making a living than the trade her father had chosen for her . |
| 8 | Yes here I am lift him , so erm yeah so you just do a grey and the green |
| 9 | So the eight becomes a seven and the result will be 11977 . |
| 10 | The road was crossed by a locked-down barrier about two kilometres further on , but Belov had a key and the barrier hardly slowed them at all . |
| 11 | She did not care a damn whether the information was protected or not . |