Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [adj] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos the the reason they , they er done away with the steam tugs and had a diesel , because a diesel you could start up and er when the dredging finished they tipped the tug at Ipswich and er if they want they one of the big ships up the river , cos then they could start the diesel up quite , right away , whereby a steam tug you a fire there all the time . |
| 2 | We show them some of the dirty ticks , but it 's pretty elementary because none of those boys are likely to be used in any sort of field work . |
| 3 | Yeah , but what kind of people , what kind of people give their give me some of the different types of people |
| 4 | Even now , I consider it one of the best machines ever made . |
| 5 | ‘ Give us one of the real giants in the semi-finals with a 15,000 crowd and the chance to say ‘ thanks for the money ’ on the way out . |
| 6 | A council they oppose so much that they give us one of the lowest grants per head in the country , poll tax cap us , take us to court over redundancy payments , criticise us over the Meadow Well management and so on . |
| 7 | Come on then , give us some of the fancy German stuff . |
| 8 | My veterinary colleagues tell me one of the main dangers with such large dogs is not that they injure themselves ( through overexercising before their skeletons can carry their weight ) but that their diets are over-supplemented , particularly with excessive calcium , which damages bone growth and hinders development . |
| 9 | er I mean it depends I suppose the extent to which there 's any tutorial element but I mean erm whether they have you there for a week or something and teach you some of the practical |
| 10 | I find it one of the fastest most exciting games about ! |
| 11 | The drooping snout and the torpedo-like body , coupled with big fins and muscles like Charles Atlas , make him one of the best , if not the best , fighting coarse fish . |
| 12 | Borage has star-shaped flowers of an intense blue rarely seen in other plants and these , together with its long-flowering tendency , ease of cultivation , and hardiness , make it one of the best garden plants . |
| 13 | About the exchange of bird species between closely adjacent islands Wallace noted : ‘ Birds offer us one of the best means of determining the law of distribution ; for though at first sight it would appear that the watery boundaries that kept out the land quadrupeds could be easily passed over by birds , yet practically it is not so ; for if we leave out the aquatic tribes ( seabirds ) which are preeminently wanderers , it is found that the others ( and especially the passeres , or perching birds , which form the vast majority ) are often as strictly limited by straits and arms of the sea as are quadrupeds themselves . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Have you any of the higher feelings ? ’ said Taliesin , and Fael-Inis looked amused . |