Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [vb base] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an in-depth feature on the Italian scene next month both Botha and Campese — rumoured to be amongst the best paid of the legion of ‘ stranieri ’ in Italy — talk about what Italy holds for them and tackle head-on the issue of pay-for-play . |
| 2 | ‘ England 's army of thugs were told last night : ‘ cause any aggro and we 'll jail you and throw away the key ’ ’ it was reported yesterday in The One That Most Of Them Read . |
| 3 | I mean I just find it annoying cos you get through to somebody who then passes you on to somebody else and then they 'll talk to you and say well the person you want to talk to is n't here at the moment so you 've had all this phone call and then you 've got to ring again . |
| 4 | In the former , Lord Macmillan hesitated ‘ to hold that in these days and in an industrial community it was a non-natural use of land to build a factory on it and conduct there the manufacture of explosives . ’ |
| 5 | Doubly foolproof in a way , since the 103/4 is , as I had been led to expect from someone in whose ears I have complete trust , one of the most ‘ out-of-thebox ’ loudspeakers that I have had the pleasure to use — one can be very quickly up and running with it and feel only the need to make relatively small adjustments to positioning and so on in due course as listening progresses ; such changes with this loudspeaker result in subtle rather than profound modifications to the sound . |