Example sentences of "[verb] the big [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Market traders were put out when it was announced they would be losing their pitches to accommodate the big top . |
| 2 | The truth is that my women friends really would n't feel much better if they were 19 going on 20 , 29 approaching 30 or nudging the big Four-O . |
| 3 | The whole point of allowing the big schemes to go ahead at this difficult economic time , after all , is not just to get roads and railway lines built but to cut unemployment and get the economy moving . |
| 4 | The next morning the girls woke to the incessant clatter of the mowing arm circling the big meadow . |
| 5 | She went to the stone sink , scrubbed her hands under the single cold tap and set off on her perambulations again , slowly circling the big pine table , moving in and out of the gibbous pool of light shed by the candles . |
| 6 | They passed the big houses in Ashfield Place where all the doctors and veterinary surgeons lived , then made a left turn into Great Horton Road , which swept right down the hill to the town centre . |
| 7 | It just seemed to go all wrong when we passed the big rock . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ She says that Diana started the conversation by calling her ‘ Duch ’ , ’ says one with whom Fergie shared the big secret . |
| 9 | Monica is due to hit the big screen in January with the release of Dracula . |
| 10 | The latest soul to hit the big screen is the unfortunate Derek Bentley , the mentally subnormal nineteen-year-old who was hanged in 1952 for the Croydon warehouse murder — a murder committed by ; his companion , sixteen-year-old Christopher Craig , who was too young to swing . |
| 11 | And he 's also managed to sneak in some live music from Mary Chapin Carpenter , who 's been touring Scotland this week and is about to hit the big time . |
| 12 | I am learning all the time and I feel I am ready to hit the big time . ’ |
| 13 | William Hill , who sponsor the big handicap , are now offering with-a-run odds against the whole field and quote Shellac , who has alternative engagements , at 6-1 . |
| 14 | The moment last year when the JET scientists made the big breakthrough … producing energy from nuclear fusion … the joining of atomic particles . |
| 15 | The size of the holes , and the thickness of the surrounding bubbles of enriched galaxy formation , depend on the details of the perturbations fed in to the idealised model calculations , and this offers hope that better observations of these holes in the Universe may reveal information about the kinds of disturbances that made the big bang of creation develop irregularly . |
| 16 | I always wondered what made the big difference between the last rates bill for Brent and the present arrangements ; now I understand that it was the £140 reduction . |
| 17 | After a succession of jobs as bellhop , waiter , car-park attendant , like a bit-part actor who finally made the big time in this aquatic Hollywood , he has built a career out of surfing big waves . |
| 18 | — hit the bottle with a vengeance when the group made the big time . |
| 19 | In 1980 , Dirk Coetzee made the big time in the South African Security Police . |
| 20 | At seven o'clock that night , William Darling went up the long stairs of the lighthouse to light the big oil lantern . |
| 21 | rather than keep using the big tins for the school . |
| 22 | It was a poor match for the 1,019 crowd to endure and with both sides using the big boot upfield on the sloping pitch , it was n't a game for the purists . |
| 23 | CAN the Princess of Wales remain the big fashion and social icon of 1993 ? |
| 24 | Lesley-Jane cued the big speech , and no one breathed . |
| 25 | Murnin is still on crutches after the much publicised incident involving controversial Crusaders star Kirk Hunter — but he has already forgiven the big man for the tackle which finished his career . |
| 26 | TIME TO WIELD THE BIG KNIFE |
| 27 | WBC holder Hodkinson wants a £250,000 purse but Warren , who is McMillan 's promoter , said : ‘ I do n't want to see the big contests slip away because the fighters are too greedy . |
| 28 | Yes , it would be fun to see the big Han on his knees and begging . |
| 29 | But customers , too , have only recently begun to see the big picture : IBM is not just going through a bad patch , it is in serious , perhaps critical , trouble . |
| 30 | You sit high in any case and it 's just as well — you need to be able to see the big car 's extremities . |