Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want them improved for the coming year and certainly by the first year of the council tax . |
| 2 | Long experience has taught many Irishmen that they will not get from authorities national and local the benefits and services to which they consider themselves entitled without the kindly intervention of some influential personage . |
| 3 | Although you may still find them on sale in the spring , they 're unlikely to be at their best by then so now is the time to buy them and get them planted before the bad frosts . |
| 4 | Name something connected with the first John 's job or home area . |
| 5 | The efforts of Rusty Conway , Chief Public Relations Officer at U.V.I. , to minimize the publicity caused by this event get him entangled in the competing empires of television and the press . |
| 6 | Its aim is to co-operate in the development of the X-standard and get it accepted by the International and US standards bodies , ISO and ANSI . |
| 7 | When we then find ourselves confronted by the weary who need sustaining , both in personal conversation and in public worship alike , we have this reservoir to draw on . |
| 8 | And should the current two vacancies within the Windsor firm find themselves listed at the local Job Centre it 's impossible to calculate how many of the nation 's three million unemployed might apply . |
| 9 | They simply find themselves categorised by the limp thinking of economic commentators . |
| 10 | 'E said ter me , ‘ What 'ave yer done in the past year ? ’ an' I said , ‘ Nuffink . ’ |
| 11 | He is at pains to assure us that he will do so We are privileged to share in these Machiavellian plans ( the word ‘ reach ’ has such connotations : ‘ overreach ’ is when the Machiavel attempts too much ) , and we see them fulfilled in the brilliant wooing scene that follows . |
| 12 | Get yourself twelve songs — and have them transposed into the right key , for God 's sake . |
| 13 | Nor have I referred to the minor changes made to the 1987 regulations in 1990 and 1991 , which have already been applied in the accounts of most societies and will be familiar to their preparers and auditors by now . |
| 14 | Have you gone for the longer length ? |
| 15 | And how much corruption have you discovered in the Socialist Party ? |
| 16 | Have you fallen for the coy-virgin act , my darling ? |
| 17 | What assumptions have you made about the relative priority of the various conditions ? |
| 18 | Have you planned for the longest holiday of your life — your retirement ? |
| 19 | Which of the other items on this list if any , have you collected in the last year ? |
| 20 | ‘ And what have you done with the old car ? ’ |
| 21 | What choice have you given to the seventy five families that tonight are in bed and breakfast in this city with children ? |
| 22 | What choice have you given to the hundred thousand people , hundred thousand people , whose mortgages have been repossessed , who have been made homeless by the policies of your Government ? |
| 23 | HAVE you heard about the dyslexic devil worshipper ? |
| 24 | Oh God you have n't , have you heard about the fifth year toilet yet ? |
| 25 | Have you heard about the Tory moderate who hit the cheerful-looking palmist on the nose ? |
| 26 | ’ Have you heard about the big stink along in Information ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Have you heard about the intended evacuation ? ’ |
| 28 | Have you heard of the Thirty Years War ? |
| 29 | ‘ Have you heard of the Penal Times ? |
| 30 | Never mind the West Indies , have you heard of the Wet & Windies ? |