Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tragedy is , we 've done nothing about the exclusive reliance on interest rates , we 've done nothing about the continuing erosion of jobs , and particularly so in the regions , er and this government has er wasted the summer months ; when it could have taken action it has merely compounded the problems that are of it 's own creation in the mismanagement of the economy . |
| 2 | The tragedy is , we 've done nothing about the exclusive reliance on interest rates , we 've done nothing about the continuing erosion of jobs , and particularly so in the regions , er and this government has er wasted the summer months ; when it could have taken action it has merely compounded the problems that are of it 's own creation in the mismanagement of the economy . |
| 3 | You look at the skill you did n't know you had , put a label on it and think : ‘ Yes I do do that ’ , whereas when you first walk in you think you 've done nothing for the last 18 years . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've seen plenty in the last few months . ’ |
| 5 | But I 've got one in the do-it-yourself shop here you see , and I thought I might as well put one in Val 's two shops . |
| 6 | I can quote you three particular instances where farmers have rung in with good information only to be told at the other end of the phone what the bloody hell have you rung us for and they 've got nothing within the local police whatsoever . |
| 7 | He said , ‘ What I 've done , I 've left everything in the top drawer so that it 's all easier for my wife when I die . |
| 8 | We have seen something of the various situations in which non-fatal physical harm might occur . |
| 9 | In our annual reports in Dumbarton Oaks Papers we have shown something of the extraordinary nature of the church and its decoration and shed much new light on the period immediately before Justinian . |
| 10 | Every increase in the price expected will , as a rule , induce some people who would not otherwise have produced anything , to produce a-little ; and those , who have produced something for the lower price , will produce more for the higher price . |
| 11 | Although most Gazans — 70% of whom are under 35 — have known nothing but the Israeli occupation that started in 1967 , the young are fired with the idea of resistance , however futile . |
| 12 | His translators over the past two centuries might be divided into literalists , freewheeling creativists , and those — the greater number — who have attempted something in the middle way between Newmark 's " semantic " and " communicative " ; those , indeed , who have attempted to " English " him . |
| 13 | However , I have unearthed one with the wooden shaft inset . |
| 14 | Most schools have appointed someone at the middle management level or above ( see Figure 1 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ The IRA have gained nothing over the past 20 years by their tactics of terrorism and murder . |
| 16 | We have to make the imaginative and unsettling leap into understanding that agricultural and industrial civilizations have put nothing into the basic wiring of the human animal . |
| 17 | ‘ If we have learned anything from the last few years , it is that availability is the main occasion and the trigger for experimentation among the young . ’ |
| 18 | No one has asked me to contribute material aid for Iraqi civilians who have lost everything in the allied bombing . |