Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Which not only guarantees you the widest choice possible but also allows you complex control over the design of your beautiful new custom-built bedroom .
3 But this only tells us the earliest date at which the book could have been written , not the latest date , which is of more interest .
4 Because his refusal to be sincere about his feelings toward her leads her further away from her own values , she begins to resent the way in which he constantly gives her the linguistic slip : ‘ Concepts which still meant much to her , by which she had once lived , were swerved aside with a smart epigram , a pun , a quotation , a dirty story ’ ( 170 ) .
5 Well it was like the two soldiers and the one person just holds it the other person just tried and knock the head off .
6 Individualism of this variety strives to put individuals in their social context , but nevertheless gives them the last laugh .
7 they 're about the same , so when the hundred gram bar has got the extra ten per cent it 's it 's just just makes it the better bargain , er , they 're not losing much on that cos they save on the wrapping , so it probably costs them the same
8 Bah , the professor always gives me the dirty jobs while he plays with his monster .
9 well that was an old banger were n't it ? , she always , she always gives me the little bags on the carpet , aye bags
10 It still gives us the same answer cos we multiply to get the indices .
11 He still feeds us the odd titbit , apparently . ’
12 Furthermore — and this probably gives us the best clue as to the intrinsic nature of schizophrenia — there is fluctuation in mental state over a much shorter time-scale .
13 Now a cursory look through our library cuttings today shows me the huge range of work in which you 're involved .
14 Next month even brings us The Good Cat Food Guide ( Chatto & Windus , £4.99 ) .
15 She then shows me the various x-rays , and we discuss the discharge arrangements .
16 He then gives them the following details .
17 The band maximum then gives us the vertical ionization energy , and the band origin gives the adiabatic ionization energy .
18 ‘ As long as everybody else sees it the same way , ’ he said .
19 ‘ Which presumably makes me the better teacher , ’ he returned with a dryness that made her want to pummel him with her fists from sheer frustration .
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