Example sentences of "[adv prt] the big [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Wilfred Owen moves into the second stanza he takes on the bigger issue of what he is really trying to say . |
| 2 | In my first six weeks here I had lots of battles — taking on the bigger ones . |
| 3 | ‘ I enjoy taking on the big battalions , ’ he says . |
| 4 | In his day he has taken on the big guns of industry , commercialised culture and of whole countries ( who can easily forget his devastating portrait of Mrs Thatcher and the fawning Saatchi brothers ? ) . |
| 5 | The game boys who took on the big boys , and won , |
| 6 | The bell usually tolls for one of the big championship teams on cup day … this is cricket 's FA Cup … where the small teams the non leaguers get a chance to take on the big boys … the pros … |
| 7 | If you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried . ’ |
| 8 | But I do n't worry about being a loser — if you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried |
| 9 | But you have to admit you do look very young and innocent , so you ca n't blame me for putting on the Big Daddy bit . ’ |
| 10 | But — he took on the big job . |
| 11 | They were going to put on the big show . |
| 12 | But once you 've got there , you do n't have to play down the big moments , or play up the character scenes , because it 's all so perfectly balanced . ’ |
| 13 | She lifted down the big suitcase from the top of the wardrobe , and , placing it on the bed , began to fill it , folding the garments as carefully as Isabelle would have done . |
| 14 | In 51 minutes Ian Ferguson crashed in a fierce 20 yarder which flew wide and Rangers missed a great chance to go ahead when Murdoch saved a Hateley penalty kick , after the keeper had been penalised for bringing down the big attacker . |
| 15 | The Western sheep and cattle rangers cut down the big trees and put a stop to the burning of bush . |
| 16 | Lincoln brought in the big guns of William Temple to get bishop and rector to release the curate before the time . |
| 17 | ‘ The small orders bring in the big ones . ’ |
| 18 | Day Two of the International Trials at Blenheim has brought in the big names … but has n't brought a change in the lead … |
| 19 | Frenchman Cedric Pioline , who has never won a professional title , pulled off the biggest shock by dumping top seed Courier 7–5 6–7 6–4 6–4 to open the day . |
| 20 | Christie 's pulled off the biggest coup of the week , selling a complete , signed Vollard suite for £600,000 ( $906,000 ) to David Tunick bidding in the room , the first Vollard suite to sell at auction since 1982 ( although another set was unsold at Sotheby 's last year ) . |
| 21 | Leinster are left with four after Carlisle pulled off the biggest win for the Southern contingent by despatching North West kingpins Donemana . |
| 22 | HENRY WHARTON set up the biggest fight in Yorkshire for years when he successfully defended his Commonwealth super-middleweight title by stopping Australian Rod Carr in eight rounds at Leeds Town Hall on Wednesday . |
| 23 | We will spare the blushes of those forecasters ' who notched up the biggest errors . |
| 24 | When he was an undergraduate at Christchurch in nineteen seventy-five , he and a friend , Tim Sanderson , decided to put up the biggest folly in the world in Christchurch meadow : |
| 25 | Mr Ishaq has also been at work on the Sindh assembly , in which Miss Bhutto 's supporters make up the biggest group . |
| 26 | So the Tories could still just about end up the biggest party , and we will hear no more about the disastrous campaign . |
| 27 | Outside Europe international finance would pool its resources to open up the biggest prize of all — the vast reservoir of cheap labour awaiting Western exploitation in China . |
| 28 | Conservative privatisation was supposed to break up the big monopolies and make them more competitive and accountable to the public empty propaganda indeed . |
| 29 | I led up the awkward flake crack to a sitting stance on the Pedestal — a huge , flat topped flake stuck to the face — and called up the big guns . |
| 30 | He walked to the table and picked up the big Polaroid camera in its leather case . |