Example sentences of "[verb] i the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ To those who took offence at the ‘ Burn down the disco ’ line , I 'd say , please show me the black members of New Order . |
| 32 | Show me the ultimate intensifiers of sin . |
| 33 | Show me the other one first and you can find it oh no you do n't , come here |
| 34 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 35 | ‘ Show me the little something . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ Any chance of anyone passing me the odd anabolic steroid , this week ? |
| 37 | She now has a wedding dress that cost me the national debt , but which now bears no relation to the original creation because all the expensive seed-pearls are strewn around her bedroom floor , and which the dog thought would be marvellous to eat and is now residing at the local vet 's and which will cost me even more money . |
| 38 | ‘ You can send me the odd card if you like . |
| 39 | look at this , please could you send me the following disc the Amiga five hundred , number , any num he writes number every time , one , two , three , four , five |
| 40 | In an effore to pick a premium FFL squad , could someone send me the current ( or a few weeks old league table that was published recently ) as I seem to have got rid of it , and todays paper does n't have one in |
| 41 | could somebody send me the current squad for this season & also the fixture list . |
| 42 | After all , you were n't overly concerned about my feelings when you interviewed me the other day , were you ? ’ |
| 43 | ‘ A reporter told me the only dames he knew weighed 16 stones at least , ’ she said . |
| 44 | After dinner , sitting on the veranda , with his pipe well alight and with a glass of neat Old Rarity at his side , Alec Reid told me the extraordinary story of the fortune which he said belonged to Tiare . |
| 45 | It was Nanny who told me the rotten news . |
| 46 | One day Tom came to see me and poured out a story which told me the other side of his ambitious , over-achieving self . |
| 47 | ‘ It 's a fine idea , but Mrs. Olinton told me the other day that Mr. Olinton would n't lend any of his buildings to Scouts or Guides or Brownies or Cubs . |
| 48 | European political union is a question of the heart versus the head , a government minister told me the other day . |
| 49 | ‘ You told me the other day that you could n't remember the farewell party very clearly , ’ she began . |
| 50 | My ever difficult told me the other night I needed to change my attitudes and lifestyle and to realise I would not get another job at my age . |
| 51 | The Minister told me the other week that compulsory competitive tendering can produce savings of 8 per cent . |
| 52 | A vicar in Battersea told me the other day that when he went to the church festival of Christmas at the local primary school — one of the schools within his parish — there was plenty of Father Christmas and jingle bells , but not one reference to Jesus . |
| 53 | One of the tragedies to that it has now become so expensive but is very difficult but not because it was sponsored but somebody told me the other night that the Billy Connolly programme excuse me Billy Connolly programme about art and culture was |
| 54 | Rosie told me the other nurses who worked here have tried to be more than just assistants to him . ’ |
| 55 | Yeah Sue told me the other day that er she wo n't come out till she 's , she 's right cold . |
| 56 | They told , Diane told me the other night though , she 's had three years that she should n't have had . |
| 57 | He told me , he told me the other night . |
| 58 | Being certainly lost an opportunity by not being it 's only body there is an editing element in the book publishing section from the P G B and there are elements relating to us in the S P G of the Periodical Training Council and there will be bits of them in the public relations in the marketing one of which I 've got a copy of the draft , but you know there is nothing all embracing B T E C do graphics and journalism but there is no single forum , I mean that 's what so astonishing and interestingly somebody at B T E C told me the other day there 's been a bit of a problem about the the book editing part of the editing level three element um , and that 's partly political as to editing versus production because production 's level four and editing is level three , and that has made some problems apparently |
| 59 | ‘ It was an old Pole called Poniatowski , now in exile in Paris , who told me the awful , ghastly , horrifying details . |
| 60 | They told me the legal position and asked how hard I was prepared to fight . |