Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say publicly that they are mistaken in trying to push this Bill through in the face of severe and fierce opposition , not just from committed Labour supporters but from rank-and-file Conservatives and from people who have no particular political We were lucky enough to see my hon. Friend the Minister of State a couple of times , and we tried to explain to him how we in Leicestershire would lose out . |
| 2 | It 's the one chance that members of the Ninety-Six club have each year to drive their classic cars the way they were intended … hard and fast . |
| 3 | Unable to resist their piratical instincts the Toulon brigands spoilt the leisure and fun of their Atlantic coast rivals . |
| 4 | To celebrate its 50th anniversary The Institute of Road Transport Engineers is holding a transport engineering conference on 30th October — 1st November 1994 on the theme ‘ Living with Technology ’ . |
| 5 | It was n't worth going back to Edinburgh ( after the graduation ceremony ) so we took the opportunity to visit our old friends the Kembles , who live in South Croydon , which is only a mega traffic jam 's throw from Gatwick . |
| 6 | The Secretary of State for Employment and the Secretary of State for Education and Science , in an interesting double act at the Dispatch Box , sought to challenge my hon. Friend the Member for Sedgefield about Britain 's position in the league tables of numbers staying on between 16 and 19 . |
| 7 | I advise him not to embarrass his hon. Friend the Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) in that way . |
| 8 | ‘ By 1988 , having joined the show in 1986 , I was desperately missing gigging , and I was asked to put my old band The Y-Fronts back together for a charity performance . |
| 9 | I am happy to give my hon. Friend the assurance that we are not going down the route of a federal Europe . |
| 10 | However , we know that tonight 's motion , which has produced some disappointingly negative amendments from the Opposition , should be approved to give my hon. Friend the Minister a good send-off to Brussels , with the motion ringing in his ears . |
| 11 | Meanwhile at the last Oxford college to abandon its women-only principles the feeling was the students will get used to the idea . |
| 12 | There had been no poverty at all , no necessity to move except the necessity of a woman who had been driven by some perverse whim to deny her former husband the right to see his daughter . |
| 13 | OLD soldier Dominic Lavery has refused to give his beloved wellies the boot despite rumours they 're soon to be replaced by a new American alternative . |
| 14 | If only we had something of the social sense they had in Germany , we might manage to give our young people the experiences they ought to have … [ in Germany ] the rambling movement … [ has ] reached enormous proportions — 2,500 hostels provide shelter for 6d per night … . |
| 15 | I 'll pin Harry Prosser 's great picture on my front door to give our old postman the idea of how it should be done . |
| 16 | To match their storming performances the actor playing the husband had to be forceful , too , and Peter Dayson is certainly that . |
| 17 | To protect its younger members the TUC had to sacrifice the economic freedom of working pensioners , while through Beveridge 's rationalizing , the state retained a flexible reserve army of labour in the younger elderly . |
| 18 | Besides , Richard Armstrong was careful to allow his young heroes the support of older men whose experience could be called upon at need . |
| 19 | Regular treatment of your dog and your home with a suitable insecticide is all that 's required , so it 's no more than you should already be doing to control our old friend the flea ! |
| 20 | In the parable , the King 's servant , forgiven a crippling debt of millions , refused to forgive his fellow servant the debt of a few coins . |
| 21 | I wish to congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Tooting ( Mr. Cox ) on choosing this subject for debate tonight , when the cold weather is with us again and the misery of the homeless increases . |
| 22 | I am glad to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Leyton ( Mr. Cohen ) . |
| 23 | After an extensive course of chemotherapy , Mrs Hill decided to tell her eldest daughter the truth about her illness . |
| 24 | Iris had a similar block in her kitchen ; once Melissa remembered being asked to hand her one f the knives . |
| 25 | Once the students had joined their TP schools on their weekly , one-day attachments , we were able to make their recounted experiences the starting point for the seminar work . |
| 26 | ‘ I think he feels guilty about his old buddy Tatham and does n't want to interrupt his posthumous triumph the Crocus List . |
| 27 | In general though it is better to make your existing drive the master and the new drive the slave . |