Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no , I suppose he would have considered it disloyal to the old man . |
| 2 | Look , I 've booked us all into the Italian place round the corner . |
| 3 | When we arrived at the hotel I found that he 'd booked us both into the same double room . |
| 4 | RICHARD GOUGH and Trevor Steven will be examined by Rangers ' medical staff today but the injuries sustained at Fir Park last night have made them doubtful for the European tie with FC Brugge . |
| 5 | I have done my best with the Scottish Sports Council 's questionnaires that you sent down , and enclose a copy of my covering letter for your information . |
| 6 | I wish that the hon. Gentleman had made himself familiar with the two judgments in the case — those of Mr. Justice Simon Brown and of the Master of the Rolls . |
| 7 | It was Barbara Castle who remarked , when Mrs Thatcher became leader of the Conservatives in 1975 , that power had made her pretty for the first time . |
| 8 | He had hardly ever seen her naked since the first days of their marriage , and she had n't been anxious to show herself even then . |
| 9 | By mixing Redgra with shale , Oxford 's neighbours Swindon have made theirs one of the best tracks in the country . |
| 10 | Then the goat had made itself evident in the warm air . |
| 11 | ‘ Men have authority over women because Allah has made one superior to the other , and because they spend their wealth to maintain them ’ says the Koran . |
| 12 | He 'd done something dishonest for the first time in his business life , and it sat uneasily on his conscience . |
| 13 | ‘ Go and see who it is , will you , there 's a duck , ’ requested Constance , who had just made herself comfortable on the swinging seat . |
| 14 | It was the launching pad for a media career that has made her one of the highest paid people on British TV . |
| 15 | This quote from Jean Aurenche , who co-scripted Tavernier 's first three features , identifies the driving force which informs all the director 's work , and has made him one of the leading European directors today . |
| 16 | So I wished I 'd done it all in the first place , now I 've got to do it . |
| 17 | To summarize : although Paisley and the other ministers of the Free Presbyterian Church have always maintained a clear division between ‘ constitutional ’ and ‘ party ’ politics — the Church has a position on the constitution but does not back any particular party — the close historical and biographical links between Church and Party have made it impossible for the Free Presbyterian Church to avoid either being tagged with the label of being the DUP at prayer or on occasion being disrupted by the spill-over of tensions from the Party into the Church . |
| 18 | This would indeed have made it one of the greatest empires in Europe . |
| 19 | WEDGWOOD has made it big on the small screen with greatly increased television coverage . |
| 20 | So the debonair Simon had made it big in the financial world . |
| 21 | I have made it clear to the right hon. Gentleman and to the House that we believe that the Union between the United Kingdom and Scotland is important . |
| 22 | However , Ada had made it clear at the first round of talks that the commission had no power to negotiate changes , which had to be approved by referendum . |
| 23 | Mr Hyslop said he had made it clear during the 1987 campaign that any political party was free to advertise . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's angry and irritable and he 's made it clear from the very beginning that he does n't expect me to come up to scratch . ’ |
| 25 | Wonderful Members of Parliament , who , little more than twenty years before , had made themselves merry with the wild railroad theories of engineers , and given them the liveliest rubs in cross-examination , went down into the north with their watches in their hands , and sent on messages before by the electric telegraph , to say that they were coming Night and day the conquering engines rumbled at their distant work , or advancing smoothly to their journey 's end , and gliding like tame dragons into the allotted corners grooved out to the inch for their reception , stood bubbling and trembling there , making the walls quake , as if they were dilating with the secret knowledge of great powers yet unsuspected in them , and strong purposes not yet achieved . |
| 26 | Once you have made yourself familiar with the basic sewing processes , you will then be able to cope with any of the projects in this book . |
| 27 | But it has made us aware of the crusted , jewel-bright variety of Latin America behind things that more often lump its nations together . |
| 28 | Afterwards , Ruth could not remember that she had done anything unusual on the twenty-third of December . |
| 29 | The cream lace of her dress rustled softly as she moved towards him , the pearl and diamond earrings he had bought her gleaming against the dark honey tone of her neck . |
| 30 | I could have told you that in the first place . |