Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the people you saw with false teeth had masturbated when young , it was a well-known fact , only there was a conspiracy between dentists and what Lewis called the vitamin-C lobby to keep it secret . |
| 2 | I doubt she has the technical skill to keep me static for very long , but she certainly has acquired just enough understanding of particle physics and the footnotes to the hard-to-find tenth-century Babylonian edition of The Sword of Moses to slow me down just long enough to cramp my style . |
| 3 | Now they 've got the bloody nerve to charge us half when we live there I do n't think she 'd dare say anything to me about it . |
| 4 | she only had the bloody cheek to charge us last year for a turkey wrong , but I mean I did get that sorted out afterwards . |
| 5 | Those are all steps in the right direction to make us more competitive ; and if we are more competitive , we can obviously sell more of our goods . |
| 6 | The main problem , at least on the first night , was that too much of the dialogue was overplayed — Lochhead recognises that you do n't need to soup up the Scots speech to make it funny , or poignant or significant : it 's all already there in the words , but if they 're spoken too self-consciously they end up sounding like rather forced one-liners . |
| 7 | ‘ It was Alethea who took the brave decision to end it all , ’ a close friend said . |
| 8 | ‘ It was Alethea who took the brave decision to end it all , ’ said a close friend . |
| 9 | ‘ It was Alethea who took the brave decision to end it all , ’ a close friend said . |
| 10 | Use the runny kind of honey or mix some water with the stiffer kind to make it runny . |
| 11 | We will divide our people — some to the Rorim and the Circle , and some to the outer wall to give us advance warning . ’ |
| 12 | The crucial thing to make it last a reasonable amount of time is to use the length of your premises to the best advantage and have them going to one end and then back , otherwise they may finish surprisingly quickly . |
| 13 | A play really demands to be read aloud -it needs the sound of the human voice to bring it alive . |
| 14 | A local , standing nearby , eventually intervened , saying : ‘ Now gentlemen , if only you had the good sense to ask me first . |
| 15 | Sunderland refound the winning habit to beat them 2–0 with goals from Steve Maxwell and Eric Mathers . |
| 16 | But he wants to become the first man to do it all the way across . |
| 17 | The authors have obviously taken note of the thousands of users of the first release to bring you this wonderful educational program . |
| 18 | ‘ My dear , since we first came to this terrible place you are the only person to show me true consideration . ’ |
| 19 | J. Smart of Powys lived up to his name , and was the only entrant to get it right . |
| 20 | Is that not the only way to make it clear to the IRA that there can be no question of the United Kingdom 's abandoning the Province ? |
| 21 | He wanted a different show and the only way to make it different was to leave out stuff because there was n't anything to add . |
| 22 | It took a year for the Red Army to prize them loose . |
| 23 | Essentially the case involved a youth leader of the Red Cross , who admitted joining the Red Cross to bring him closer to young girls , whom he had been abusing for thirty years . |
| 24 | His young master brought him in repeatedly and I went through the motions , trying at the same time to make it clear that it was all hopeless . |
| 25 | It 's much easier for the young helper to do it all for you . |
| 26 | ‘ Watch your tongue , Forest — I 've sufficient information against you and the other rogue to hang you both twenty times over . |
| 27 | A return to the formal table manners of Victorian times may be the best way to stop us all eating in a hurry . |
| 28 | The best way to help them all is Labour 's way — by increasing child benefit to £9.95 for every child , to reflect 1987 value . |
| 29 | Your local ABTA travel agents are the HCI experts and in the best position to give you unbiased advice . |
| 30 | The best thing to bring it all out , would be to write in my own African language , but I have to write in another language . |