Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not so much intelligent as shrewd — their organizational sense enabled them to sniff out the golden chance and grasp it firmly , it enabled them to strain forward rather than stand back waiting passively to be asked . |
| 2 | If you ignore the rule which tells you to drive down the left- hand side of the road in Britain you may crash your car . |
| 3 | Leaving you to patch up the little cuts and grazes that germs love so much . |
| 4 | Leaving you to patch up the little cuts and grazes that germs love so much . |
| 5 | But do be aware that being a little easy-going in working out and rationing your calories can easily allow you to drift down the slippery slope towards being too easy-going to achieve weight loss . |
| 6 | And your own personal ‘ diata ’ will help you to build up the long term eating habits that are necessary for good health . |
| 7 | If you over oil the skin it will be too slippery to enable you to build up the necessary friction . |
| 8 | These are very useful , as they enable you to balance up the individual microphone inputs with a degree of precision which is not easy to achieve simply by listening on headphones . |
| 9 | The bad news is that your pass is for today and Friday , and Lil wo n't allow you to make up the lost time in the field . |
| 10 | We dismounted from the BMW and Werewolf slipped on a pair of gold-rimmed shades , which reminded me to put on the plain glass Yuppie specs I 'd borrowed from Fly . |
| 11 | The remaining half-dozen or so clasped the last tattered shreds of the undergraduate life around them to keep out the cold winds of the world . |
| 12 | Of course , Sar n't Major James Graham Biggleswade could n't exactly go back to Blighty and expect them to hang out the welcome mat in Fulham , not after that tricky bit of bloody buggering business down in the Falklands — oh , excuuuuse meeee , the Mal -bloody-buggering- vinas — back in ‘ 81 . |
| 13 | His injuries forced him to give up the coveted mount on Cool Ground . |
| 14 | To the very last he consulted his own common sense rather than the orders of his doctors whom he detested because they advised him to give up the roast meats that he loved . |
| 15 | ‘ Clinger told me before he left that his lordship had had him in the second Sunday he was there and told him he expected him to switch on the electric fire in the private chapel ten minutes before matins . |
| 16 | And we 'd go across and I would help him to couple up the various coaches and that . |
| 17 | Even when I can understand all they are saying , they give me little opportunity to reply , so anxious are they to keep up the headlong momentum of their own speech ; then they complain that I say nothing ! |
| 18 | Ill health and bereavement are the most common needs for which the charity gives assistance — for example , it has recently helped a member whose career was terminated by multiple sclerosis to buy an electric wheelchair , and given a loan to a member 's widow reliant on state benefits to enable her to pay off the disputed partnership settlement debts accrued when her husband died . |
| 19 | Although the older sister lived away , she travelled to stay with her sister occasionally and during one visit , after she made her allegations in a family meeting which she had joined , the counsellor asked her to take over the caring role for the final week of her stay so that her sister could actually see how it should be done . |
| 20 | This causes him to fold down the top half of the newspaper , to see if I have set off , and to lose his place . |
| 21 | ‘ And if you keep both feet in you 've more chance of dropping back into the chair on your knees when it tries to flip , ready for it to whip back the other way , ’ says Birchall . |
| 22 | Government officials expressed confidence in January 1990 that Bolivia would by June have cancelled all its commercial bank debts , after receiving promises of a total of $30,500,000 in donations which would enable it to buy back the remaining $270,000,000 . |
| 23 | Wilkinson Sword hopes Protector will enable it to wrest back the technological advantage in the razor market which it is widely thought to have lost to brand leader Gillette in recent years . |
| 24 | Forced it to swallow down the blunted dazzle |
| 25 | Gain says the acquisition positions it to take on the full scope of designing , building and delivering large-scale multimedia systems . |
| 26 | Final assembly is the stage in the car production process when the welded steel car body , having already been painted , is brought together with the engine and transmission , and all the components and trim are attached to it to make up the completed car . |
| 27 | It might be better for them to prop up the Ottoman empire for a while longer , but at the same time to keep their options open by maintaining contact with the various factions amongst the Serbs . |
| 28 | Well I mean that when we start organization and I am on , I 'm on Cortille and on the committee and they wanted me to take over the Vice Chairman and I said no way . |
| 29 | With a queue of industrialized and developing countries , from Israel to Pakistan , eager to achieve the status of nuclear weapons powers , it is all too easy for them to leach out the necessary technology from ‘ peaceful ’ atomic programmes . |
| 30 | We try to formulate policies that 'll meet the needs of the people who speak to us and then we use officers , not to make necessarily proposals on policies , but to help us to work out the financial ways of achieving those policies , so that 's almost the other way round from the way that John outlined . |