Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corridors of the BBC are long and pea-green ( the 1984 setting of Orwell 's book , reputedly ) , and I followed a uniformed attendant through and round them for the obligatory ten miles before happening upon Studio B10 . |
| 2 | There 's some that are going up at the moment to this pond , they develop them for the next three years to spend their life in the fresh water feeding , and what we 're trying to do here is to see just how many there are in , in the river er as a total . |
| 3 | However Steve decided it would be unfair for the winners to go without some kind of reward , and so he intends to pop round to show you his collection of ‘ Bunty ’ comics — expect him within the next 28 days . |
| 4 | And send it to the given stamped envelope . |
| 5 | Then take a second card from the middle pile and place it on the other outside pile . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She poked busily at the concoctions , withdrew the tins from the oven and put them on the scrubbed wooden table to cool . |
| 9 | Cover the tubes with muslin , held in place by two rubber bands , and put them in the same warm place as the stocks . |
| 10 | Vasquez argues that the work carried out by Behaviouralists was based on three central assumptions of Realism , which together put them in the same broad camp . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | My best dress that she 'd sewed , my blouses with her embroidery : I put them in the hard square leather case . |
| 13 | His friends hail him as the last great artist of the 20th century . |
| 14 | If you are using two strands of 2/30s for your jacquard then add one extra strand for the welt and remove it after the last two CX rows . |
| 15 | No I put it in the last two times . |
| 16 | ‘ We 'll take two pieces of bone from your pelvis and wire them to the top two vertebrae and your skull , ’ he said.d . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | but there were the , I get them with the four big slices and one slice see |
| 20 | So you tell them about the thirty five percent you tell them about the banker 's order that will need signing . |
| 21 | ‘ Tell me about the funny Dutch houses and Red Indians , ’ he would ask . |
| 22 | Franco pulled glasses two at a time from the sink and set them on the tiny draining board . |
| 23 | Thank you friends , we all know him as the one million pound councillor . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In the second set of instructions , take the one pair and perm it with the two highest scoring selections in each of the three trios and in the third section , perm a straight 8 from 9 among your second column trio matches . |
| 26 | I pulled out some money and laid it on the bar , followed by a pair of black leather driving gloves with the tops of the three middle fingers cut off the right hand , a tube of mint-flavoured lip salve and a metal hip-flask engraved with the words : ‘ I am not a diabetic ; in case of accidents please rush me to the nearest public house . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This they have plainly not been able to do and yet they still try and bounce us along the same old route through their friends in the media . |
| 29 | But if we keep them for the next ten years they 're a a real bargain , if , if , if |
| 30 | 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 . |