Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After moving to England , he fought for over two years without being defeated and reckoned : ‘ Ninety per cent of the public wanted to see me win the British title . |
| 2 | ( 149 ) How could he exert authority over them — make them toe the line , as he had to — if he knuckled under … |
| 3 | I did n't mean to become so intense about it — I had realised my mistake the previous time — but I needed to keep from pining and working a sixteen-hour day seemed to be the only way I could manage it . |
| 4 | I 'd just got my licence and I drove into Manhattan , because I got my licence the day I turned sixteen . |
| 5 | In his satirical cabaret days , Nichols used to do a sketch with Elaine May about a Jewish mother 's shock at her son 's choice of profession : ‘ Can you imagine me saying , ‘ There goes my son the nurse ’ ? ’ |
| 6 | Now Nichols 's mother could say , ‘ There goes my son the movie director . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm seeing my friend the video company owner today . |
| 8 | Well it 's absolutely horrendous , they 'll think my God the British class system is completely |
| 9 | But you must think my displeasure the heaviest thing that can befall you . |
| 10 | ‘ No one understands my speedboat the way your brother does . ’ |
| 11 | I 'd broken my heel the week before whilst soloing at Pex Hill ! |
| 12 | Catching my eye the young medic grinned and gave a thumbs-up sign . |
| 13 | I found the door unlocked as I had given my master the key before I left ; the light was poor but I could see nothing had been disturbed so lay down on the bed , pulling the curtains around me . |
| 14 | I went home and visited my GP the next day , and he gave me calamine lotion . |
| 15 | As soon as I loosened my grip the tiniest fraction — say to alter the angle of insertion from one that caused grievous bodily harm to one that was only very uncomfortable — the damned thing sprang into a new incarnation as a frisbee and shot across the room . |
| 16 | My knuckles and hands were a mass of windblown cuts and boils which meant that whenever I clenched my fists the gashes opened . |
| 17 | Houses the annual General Assembly of the Church of Scotland , presided over by the Lord High Commissioner , representing Her Majesty the Queen . |
| 18 | I do n't know which school the girl next door goes to but she 's doing her erm , A levels and er her term 's already finished . |
| 19 | ‘ Then how did you know which way the fraud worked ? ’ |
| 20 | The reason that we can not calculate the necessary correction is that we do not know which way the photon went when it bounced into the microscope . |
| 21 | But you 'd perhaps go three or four times before the baby was born and er just see everything was alright and you 'd know which way the baby was lying a and which way it was going to er you know come and if you thought there was going to be any problems well you know then you , you would sort of let the doctor know and , and he 'd decide then . |
| 22 | Nervous Tory candidate Tim Devlin admitted he did not know which way the vote would go . |
| 23 | In the second half of 1934 and in 1935 the movement all but collapsed as a national force , and to revive its fortunes the fascist political programme was de-emphasized and instead more attention was paid to fomenting local and regional grievances in populist campaigns . |
| 24 | Unless Labour develops its policies the next election will be a battle between two parties with virtually identical economic policies . |
| 25 | If Heini 's wife , Tita , a former Miss Spain , has her way the final home of the picture will be Madrid . |
| 26 | He has her report the matter to the police . |
| 27 | It 's difficult to know which country the cocoa comes from because you do n't know where they buy it . |
| 28 | The Weathermen , about whom the underground filmmaker Emile De Antonio made a sympathetic documentary in 1977 , took their title from the protest song by Bob Dylan : ‘ You Do n't Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows . ’ |
| 29 | It was too heavy to turn in the wind , but it mattered little to know which way the wind was blowing : wherever it blew it blew word of the miraculous pageant and the Angel Gabriel . |
| 30 | ‘ It was difficult to know which way the cat was going to jump , ’ she told me . |