Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 'E said ter me , ‘ What 'ave yer done in the past year ? ’ an' I said , ‘ Nuffink . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Get yourself twelve songs — and have them transposed into the right key , for God 's sake . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Have you gone for the longer length ? |
| 10 | And how much corruption have you discovered in the Socialist Party ? |
| 11 | Have you fallen for the coy-virgin act , my darling ? |
| 12 | What assumptions have you made about the relative priority of the various conditions ? |
| 13 | Have you planned for the longest holiday of your life — your retirement ? |
| 14 | Which of the other items on this list if any , have you collected in the last year ? |
| 15 | ‘ And what have you done with the old car ? ’ |
| 16 | What choice have you given to the seventy five families that tonight are in bed and breakfast in this city with children ? |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | HAVE you heard about the dyslexic devil worshipper ? |
| 19 | Oh God you have n't , have you heard about the fifth year toilet yet ? |
| 20 | Have you heard about the Tory moderate who hit the cheerful-looking palmist on the nose ? |
| 21 | ’ Have you heard about the big stink along in Information ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Have you heard about the intended evacuation ? ’ |
| 23 | Have you heard of the Thirty Years War ? |
| 24 | ‘ Have you heard of the Penal Times ? |
| 25 | Never mind the West Indies , have you heard of the Wet & Windies ? |
| 26 | Firstly have you heard of the British Philatelic Bureau ? |
| 27 | How many gigs have you missed in the last few months ? ’ |
| 28 | Who have you met among the homeless that 's surprised you ? ’ |
| 29 | And which have you used during the last year ? |
| 30 | Which search firms have you used over the past five years ? |