Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And send it to the given stamped envelope . |
| 2 | Then take a second card from the middle pile and place it on the other outside pile . |
| 3 | Unfortunately none of the five provide us with the expected objective measure of pain which we could apply with confidence to adults or to babies or to animals . |
| 4 | She feels that I should take my cod and coalfish , garfish and grayling , salmon and sole and even the shark steaks , and install them in the old deep freeze in the garage . |
| 5 | She poked busily at the concoctions , withdrew the tins from the oven and put them on the scrubbed wooden table to cool . |
| 6 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 7 | My best dress that she 'd sewed , my blouses with her embroidery : I put them in the hard square leather case . |
| 8 | More fundamentally , anchoring the pound to the ERM would , it is argued , link it to the successful anti-inflation policies of the Bundesbank , ensuring low inflation in Britain . |
| 9 | You rarely need more than a teaspoonful , you add it at the absolute final moment of cooking , you do not blaze it ( at least I do not ) , you treat it simply as a seasoning . |
| 10 | ‘ Tell me about the funny Dutch houses and Red Indians , ’ he would ask . |
| 11 | Franco pulled glasses two at a time from the sink and set them on the tiny draining board . |
| 12 | Although the ET-6 also makes use of the new T-bass shape , its natural-finished , more exotic woods separate it from the plain old ‘ T ’ version . |
| 13 | Write down a list of everything that you regularly eat and drink , and compare it with the following recommended lists of foods and drinks to increase and decrease . |
| 14 | The task will fall to the manager to persuade advice workers to attend race-awareness training in addition to popular updating in welfare benefits ; managers may have the task of explaining to management committee members why they now need training after so many years without it ; it will be the manager 's job to be attuned to advice workers ' weaknesses and tactfully point them to the relevant additional training ; the manager must find a balance in workers ' meetings between training , casework and group support . |
| 15 | And then just up and shoot him in the good old British way . |
| 16 | When not doing his rare caddying stints , Tip can be found enjoying a beer and an occasional rum-chaser at the Dunvegan Hotel , overlooking those revered links that are a constant reminder of his glory years , and a spur to his memory when the young caddies ask him about the good old days . |
| 17 | Now , as the capital returns to Berlin , there are plans to restore the Reichstag and use it as the new German parliament . |
| 18 | The bride and groom jointly wield a knife or sword and , with much giggling , push it through the hard white icing into the dark , damp , sweet , rich cake . |
| 19 | It is clear that this change is highly evaluated in Belfast in terms of social class hierarchy and status , as it is the more prestigious groups that tend to adopt it and the more ‘ advanced ’ ( generally female and younger ) group who introduce it to the conservative inner-city communities ( which are characterized by dense and multiplex network ties that tend to resist innovation and maintain conservative forms ) . |
| 20 | Move them to the cold outside world when they have made strong roots . |
| 21 | One by one I toss them into the slow current about eight feet from the roots . |
| 22 | Langbaurgh Council 's refuse collection service will pick up sacks full of plastic carriers and take them to the British Visqueen factory in Stockton for recycling . |
| 23 | Sir , may I in particular you sir , thank you for the unfailing good humour with which you have conducted this enquiry . |
| 24 | Thank you for the lovely long letter , and for the Amnesty card . |
| 25 | Hear us now as we attempt to contact Simon 's father and help him in the great spiritual work that awaits him in this prime time of his boyhood ! ’ |
| 26 | Before a non-dominant class can become the dominant class it has to ‘ give its ideas the form of universality and represent them as the only rational universally valid ones ’ ( Marx and Engels 1974 : 66 ) . |
| 27 | Sorry to be so vague , darling , but blame it on the unreliable British climate . |