Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same could be said of his father Denethor , to whom Gandalf again makes the point that even unhandled the Ring can be dangerous : ‘ if you had received this thing , it would have overthrown you . |
| 2 | Well I mean either borrowing the money I 'm afraid |
| 3 | Yeah I mean just getting the keynote speech from each one would be nice would n't it . |
| 4 | And particularly I mean just signing the V Os , because if it 's cocked up , the question 's been asked of me . |
| 5 | yeah I mean okay cover the languages to show how they did it properly , so if there is something else you want to bring in then that would be good . |
| 6 | I mean fortunately doing the maths |
| 7 | I mean actually decentralizing the power , by having groups of Ward Councillors , on an area basis , actually having the power decentralized to them and having open meetings in various parts of the City where you 've got the nine or twelve Councillors from three or four wards who 'd actually have a lot of power delegated to them , and so we would try and put power downwards . |
| 8 | I devoted my twenties to my family but I intend now to achieve the career that I never had before . |
| 9 | We complete if five degrees nose-down , still hammering along at 250 knots , but I push harder to increase the speed to 3400 , brace my stomach , and ease back until the g-meter reads a steady four . |
| 10 | When we stroll past the front of the van I peep up to check the reaction , and I guess that the two cops hunched inside see these two anxious faces glancing nervously , and they decide it is n't worth climbing out the van for , and I reckon that if I was them I too would lock the doors and stay inside . |
| 11 | Amazingly , we arrived unscathed in Wenceslas Square and I set off to find the Čedok offices to arrange accommodation . |
| 12 | Causation or some of it might have come to an end just when I set out to snuff the candles , or never existed . |
| 13 | In my early career , I set out to meet the demands of my peers and fulfil the necessary qualifications for assessment as a ‘ real polis ’ ; although there were few opportunities to flirt with any real forms of marginality ! |
| 14 | It is urging me on over the years bidding me neglect those that were without Cathenne , where as I set out to tell the story of my life , the dull with the bright , the gray with the green , all the Sundays Mondays and Tuesdays of it at least sufficiently to suggest them . |
| 15 | In 1980 I set out to change the face of political presentation in the UK and to use some of these new concepts and techniques in business and industry as well . |
| 16 | ‘ I knew I was in a race against time so I set about altering the gear box myself . |
| 17 | S I set about answering the query for myself . |
| 18 | We dismantled the imprinting equipment to make way for the passive avoidance pens and I set about raising the grant money to let us move into full swing . |
| 19 | So now I know where to find the rest of the Unit 's papers . |
| 20 | I know how to program the software that activates the Goddess . ’ |
| 21 | Oh yes , now , I get even get the woman to come up and |
| 22 | Michael Williams his name is but I ca n't remember bu I du n no the name of the scrap yard . |
| 23 | It ca n't be far , I know that , but I du n no the way . |
| 24 | I du n no the dye just come out |
| 25 | Sometimes I wake early to beat the clock . |
| 26 | I can see the land is in good heart , and I remember enough to know the extent of the estates . |
| 27 | As an immunologist I dislike not understanding the mechanism ( which logic suggests is immunological ) , but we use the technique regularly and it works . |
| 28 | It did not make it clear that the impulse to take the peach is a continuing reaction in awareness of its anticipated taste , so that I have chosen rightly only if I continue spontaneously to welcome the awareness right up to the savouring of the juice on my tongue , in other words if I do relish it , enjoy it . |
| 29 | ‘ Obviously if I decide not to take the job he 'll need to start looking for a replacement . ’ |
| 30 | Because although I feel passionately abut the Gulf war — how unnecessary it was , how obscene its prosecution is , how devastating its outcome may yet be — I know that my opposition would be diminished , subverted even , by marching with the Committee to Stop War in the Gulf . |