Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , we toast the railway station and I tell him the only Czech joke I know . |
| 2 | ‘ I term it the Afro-centric new wave in film , ’ says Singleton . |
| 3 | Singleton : ‘ I term it the Afro-centric new wave in film ’ |
| 4 | ‘ In the psychic realm it means that we are free to follow any set of images and symbols which give us the right mental feedback — and the State encourages us . |
| 5 | In that film , Julie played the Bond villainess Rosika , which offered her the dubious acting delight of smothering a man between her 49-inch breasts . |
| 6 | Faye whispered , her eyes misting and her throat going froggy as she showed them the tiny black-haired bundle cradled tightly in her arms . |
| 7 | This effect , which is strongest over the frontal lobes , was first observed in 1964 by Grey Walter , who called it the Contingent Negative Variation . |
| 8 | And there 's Transvision Vamp , a chink in that chimera ‘ the new glam ’ , who offer us the usual tenth-hand situationism , trash reappropriation of spectacular signs ( guns , stars and stripes , peroxide , Warhol ) , proposing ‘ cinepop ’ ( that old ‘ 81 line about multi-media infiltration ) and posturing as corporate buccaneers . |
| 9 | She gave him the gentle brush-off : how could this boil-necked boyo know Emlyn Williams ? |
| 10 | the only reason that police get away with drink driving is cos half the buggers are Masons and they give them the old funny hand shake and its oh on your way sir |
| 11 | set up , which started at Adams and we used the American mission near Lovedale well it was a part of Lovedale and erm , now , now it 's at er , they call it The Federal Theological Cemetery |
| 12 | it was still in the sixties , they call it the swinging sixties , I mean I did n't see anything swinging in the sixties at all , I did n't think it was swinging , but er and they do n't like now the swinging sixties and I think really it was then that er people did er branch out to new ideas . |
| 13 | ‘ No wonder they call us the black Irish ! ’ |
| 14 | Jesus Christ and all , and all his fucking disciples and Mohammed and all his fucking disciples and everybody else they love him , they love him the whole bloody thing is what rules the bloody universe . |
| 15 | By that time Barbara knew Leo very well , and she guessed how much it had cost him to tell her the whole unsavoury story . |
| 16 | ‘ Any chance of anyone passing me the odd anabolic steroid , this week ? |
| 17 | He shows me the clean pink palms of his hands , and he raises his bushy eyebrows . |
| 18 | He showed me the big green gabled home of Ireland 's Minister of Finance . |
| 19 | He handed her the double bladed paddle as she continued , ‘ I shall go down as far as Browns Mill , so could you possibly pick me up here about five thirty ? ’ |
| 20 | He called it the Common Red Rose and described it as having ‘ flowers not very double , open wide ’ , indicating that this must have been Rosa gallica officinalis or the Apothecary 's Rose . |