Example sentences of "[vb pp] the big [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | An immediate option for Tottenham was to have stripped the big centre-half of the captaincy at Elland Road and hit him with a hefty fine . |
| 3 | We 'd received a campaigns update from central office and had registered the big box pile up campaign with that campaign coordinator . |
| 4 | He was genuinely delighted that , in spite of last night , she had won the big race . |
| 5 | Recent projects have included the big Toyota plant in Derbyshire , the Honda plant in Swindon , Fujitsu in County Durham and Nissan in Tyne and Wear ( which is now to export cars to Japan ! ) . |
| 6 | Cresci booked the big stars — Freni , Giocomini , Zeffirelli to design — and rumours rumbled about under-the-table deals and suspect contracts . |
| 7 | But bosses at the famous casino , which has staged some of boxing 's greatest world title fights , are confident they 've scooped the big prize . |
| 8 | Not a few men lost teeth because they had met the big man at the wrong moment . |
| 9 | But then you probably have n't met the big baddies yet . |
| 10 | But none of them have really rattled the big chains until Food Giant came along . |
| 11 | Mr John Prescott , Labour 's transport spokesman , has warned that the Department of Transport has already built the big increases into future planning requirements . |
| 12 | That 's my chair said the big bear . |
| 13 | Oxfordshire snooker star Tessa Davidson has made the big break into the game 's elite . |
| 14 | I 've had the big boys on to me today . |
| 15 | Marius Gabriel The Original Sin ( Arrow ) Passionate big read that has had the big hype . |
| 16 | But Daly has had the big finger pointed at him before , for excessive drinking , for allegedly smashing up hotel rooms on the minor tours , for his whole attitude . |
| 17 | Well , I could go to the casting and asked him to put the pattern in and fire it for it , to cut the sand out like that , you know so that the metal 'd run in like that and you 'd got the big head as you wanted , you know and er it 'd take you like castings with the machine and all that sort of thing , it was all hand stuff you know and yeah |
| 18 | " I think we 've got the big boy and his calf , Chuck , " breathed Nathaniel Sherman . |
| 19 | I 've got the big place as well ! |
| 20 | This is a they 've got the big horns |
| 21 | Got the big notebook that 's looseleaf |
| 22 | Ten , you 've got the big hand on three and little hand on ten |
| 23 | You know cos at least you 've got a few fields for the kids to play on and you 've got a decent park , you 've got a nice pub just down the road and then you 've got the big sports hall . |
| 24 | And then I 've got the big soldier . |
| 25 | Novell Inc has finally produced the big restructuring that it has been planning and ( sort of ) denying for so long and which led to the departure of Tony Scrivens as UK managing director . |
| 26 | Got a club called the Big Bamboo on Wulff Road . |
| 27 | But you know we have to look beyond the first year or two , we have to look at what 's going to happen to that school over a much longer period of time , and quite frankly erm I would feel safer with erm what was called the big brother of the Local Authority . |
| 28 | This state of infinite density is called the big bang singularity . |
| 29 | At this time , a singularity called the big bang , the density of the universe and the curvature of space-time would have been infinite . |
| 30 | ONLY three Boxing day meetings have escaped the big freeze . |