Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [art] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they all say what a very nice man he is , too . |
| 2 | Show him a little local colour . |
| 3 | Surrey fund-raising manager Jacquie Dakin said : ‘ If many thousands of people who responded last year can have raised that much , imagine what an even greater effort will achieve . ’ |
| 4 | They ca n't make any profit out of us as they charge us a very reasonable rate . |
| 5 | When you are driving a racing car and you are taking it up to the limit , you can be nice , you can be charming , but somewhere there are undercurrents going for you that make you a pretty aggressive individual . ’ |
| 6 | Their varied tasks in the Library have all contributed to its success and we owe them a very real debt of gratitude . |
| 7 | Give them a slightly acid compost , and do n't allow the plants to dry out at all . |
| 8 | Early air travellers often flew for adventure , not just speed , and some travellers today , who do not have to cram a two-week break into a busy year , have gone back to earlier forms of transport which give them a far sharper sense of going places . |
| 9 | ‘ Right from the start , we give them a very clear picture that they 're coming to work in someone 's home . |
| 10 | ‘ When someone starts work here , we give them a very clear picture that they 're coming to work in someone 's home . |
| 11 | Gliders have very low stick forces and the lower flying speeds give them a very high rate of pitch . |
| 12 | Thousands of students , particularly from Beijing , were sent to undertake ‘ social practice ’ during the summer vacation in the hope that contact With ‘ real life ’ would bring them down to earth and give them a more realistic assessment of society . |
| 13 | Give them a really good night out . ’ |
| 14 | Give them a really good soak in aquarium disinfectant before you add them to kill off any fungi which may be present . |
| 15 | Shearwaters and petrels belong to a group called the tube-noses , for their nostrils are protected by a pair of tubes which extend some way down the beak from its base and these give them a much better perception of smell than other birds have . |
| 16 | Little red leaflets headed Herzlich Wilkommen ! are pressed into their cold hands ; the leaflets give them the deeply resistible news that they that they can get discounts on all burgers at the BurgerKing shops across West Berlin . |
| 17 | Give me patience , give me a little more patience , Alida thought , for it is soon coming to an end . |
| 18 | And he looked at me , give me a really horrible look as well ! |
| 19 | They give you a very good indication . |
| 20 | So whi what I 'm trying to say to you is that you should have four sides of written text , whether it 's on two pages , three or four What I will do is go through the headings and give you a very brief description of that so that you know roughly what 's in them . |
| 21 | If you forget , the helicopter will resume flying crabwise and give you a fairly gentle reminder . |
| 22 | You select those instruments which give you the most relevant information at the time . |
| 23 | Buying the right boots or shoes which give you the most comfortable fit is an absolute must . |
| 24 | ‘ Perhaps if we give her a little more time ? ’ |
| 25 | I usually work him in for an hour , but when I 'm riding him around in the arena before the bell goes , I 'm still thinking , ‘ How on earth am I going to get this thing up the centre line ? ’ because he 's gawping at everything , but then I give him a jolly good boot and we get on with it … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Give him a little more pethidine , Kath , ’ Jack said quietly . |
| 27 | He astounded his American masters by demanding that they give him a more worthwhile job or he would be on his way home . |
| 28 | Get out there and give it a jolly good rogering . |
| 29 | The great blocks of nineteenth-century neoclassical building which characterise this part of Pest give it a rather grand manner , though a century of knocks has rather frayed its hauteur . |
| 30 | It is easily visible with the naked eye , and binoculars give it a vaguely cruciform appearance . |