Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modigliani declined as politely but suggested to Lunia that she should come to his studio and pose for him the following day . |
| 2 | When the pope wrote to Anselm that ‘ we behold in you the venerable persona of St Augustine the Apostle of the English ’ this was more than a complimentary politeness . |
| 3 | When I walk on it the whole thing starts to move and I am soon covered in the grey dust I am stirring up ; it fills my nostrils and triggers a memory that links the smell with rock climbing . |
| 4 | Reveal to me the great secret . |
| 5 | Before they left I could not forbear to draw Gillian closer and impart to her the glittering counsel that wearing 501s with trainers was frankly un désastre and that I was amazed she had walked the streets to my apartment in broad daylight and escaped pillory . |
| 6 | It was to hound and hasten Leonard 's waking thoughts , eliminate any residual interest he may have possessed in mere intellectual commitment , and open to him the stark reality of life downtown . |
| 7 | We believe that the right way to deal with that offence is to build on the offence under the Theft Act 1968 — the taking and driving away — and add to it the aggravated offence covered in clause 1 . |
| 8 | ‘ No , look at it the other way . |
| 9 | Look at it the other way … at least we ARE beating the lower teams something a lot of ‘ mid-table ’ sides fing difficult ( as do some top of the table sides at times — remember Scum vs West Ham : ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) . |
| 10 | The new recruits to Labour did not , however , bring with them the institutional structures of Nonconformity which played so important a part in both Liberal and peace politics before 1914 . |
| 11 | I mean I 've never met Mrs. Thatcher , the only thing I know about her the only facts I have about her I 've got through the press . |
| 12 | Oh yeah , I , but I did n't realize you know with him the old man , the toughy , yeah |
| 13 | So we commit to you the divided land of Yugoslavia , the territories occupied by Israel and the troubled province of Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | Night fishing can be enjoyable in its own right , even without the added attraction of fishing at the most likely times for fish to feed , but only if you go about it the right way . |
| 15 | But squatting itself is not illegal if you go about it the right way . |
| 16 | Cos if you do anything you doing you must do it , go at it the right way and stick to it , ai n't it . |
| 17 | When you think about it the ancient Greeks had some pretty good ideas . |
| 18 | When you think about it the Compact goals are just the sort of goals that every school has anyway . |
| 19 | If you think of it the other way when , what happens when a price , when a price falls , alright , if farmers er , assume that price fall will be sustained over a number of periods , then they think , right well in order to achieve the same level of income , right , as I did previously , if prices have fallen , I 'm going to have to increase my output . |
| 20 | I carry with me the tattered remnants of this psychic structure : there is no way of not working hard , nothing in the end but an endurance that will allow me to absorb everything by the way of difficulty , holding on to the grave . |
| 21 | I don " t speak Czech ( p. 72 ) ) reverse the Politeness Principle by emphasising his disagreement and carry with them the clear implication that he believes the captain to be lying . |
| 22 | I could tell him anything , even share with him the contradictory motives within my personality , and he would still love and accept me . |
| 23 | Historians still have before them the difficult task of charting the area before they can properly explore its hidden riches . |