Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accusations that have some truth to them make the most watertight defences of all . |
| 2 | It was a pleasure to me to see the housewifely way in which Mr Wilson set about everything . |
| 3 | But the weird thing about this supposedly ‘ shock admission ’ is that everyone made the most dreadful fuss when she said she intended to ‘ go on and on and on ’ . |
| 4 | Under-threes are accompanied by parents , who help them explore the brightly coloured equipment against a stimulating background of music and storytelling . |
| 5 | No I just did it for a laugh cos I want , I want everyone to know the most interesting language in the world which is part of my language is n't it ? |
| 6 | As a service organisation , The Catering Guild depends entirely on the quality of its staff to maintain its own high ideals and , to help them recruit the very best people , it offers attractive terms and conditions — higher than the average rates of pay , Christmas bonuses , paid holiday from year one and superb training . |
| 7 | Is n't it rather that , as Woodbridge implies , the transvestite seems to be a victim of false consciousness , and by switching gender roles rather than dissolving them reinforces the very sexual division which s/he finds oppressive ? |
| 8 | No , no yo yo i is n't it funny when I thought it is a fault , one of them discarded the right ? |
| 9 | Others have drawn attention to the weak political culture : ‘ I perceive the most significant structural defect of our democracy in the lethargy and apathy which are increasingly to be found within our parties and other groups … |
| 10 | Jennifer Batten told me when I made the typically British talk-about-the-weather opening gambit to our transatlantic ‘ phone conversation . |
| 11 | I mean the most exciting moment of all is when you are actually chosen for a part — after that initial excitement it 's a bit downhill — not because the work is n't marvellous but because the first challenge is the peak . |
| 12 | Coming out of the Musée Basque , and as you turn right to recross the Nive by the Pont Marengo , you can see facing you , a little upstream , a short sequence of the best , by which I mean the most distinctive , houses in Bayonne , narrow , half-timbered , six storeys high and standing none too straight . |
| 13 | Well I mean the normally it would kill the grass , but it wo n't matter this year . |
| 14 | Well I mean the sooner that 's . |
| 15 | The worst of it is , the Wild Wood is alive with the most hideous of micro-monsters ; by which I mean the so called Cathedral Bug — though ‘ bug ’ is too cosy a name for that black abortion — Satan 's Crab suits it better . |
| 16 | I mean the very small number of girls that did get to university at the turn of the century had to endure the most extraordinary trials and hardships . |
| 17 | I mean the only er , look , make look flimsy do n't they ? |
| 18 | I met the most determined teenage resistance ever . |
| 19 | So if I make the ecologically sound washing powder Ecover and I want you to buy it instead of your familiar Persil , I need to change your habit . |
| 20 | I got the again |
| 21 | He came racing towards me just as I got out , I had already shed my parachute in the aircraft to get out a little more schnell before he accosted me , I got the most bitter rollicking for leaving the aircraft outside his engineering hangar area . |
| 22 | ‘ I got the most stick when Clinton was defending himself against allegations of an affair . |
| 23 | I got the tonight I 've er I 've got erm the baby seat done today sort of like a baby seat in the back so I wait until I get really lumbered like , you know , cos er , if you have the then you can take it back after it 's born and er , get a refund on it get all the money back . |
| 24 | Now let me just add very quickly here , I am not going to tell you or anyone that I got the best out of Bomber Command . |
| 25 | The guy was probably dead when we tipped him into the shaft — we just assumed he was at the time though the older I got the less sure of that I was — but even if was n't , he must have been killed when he hit the bottom ; it 's thirty metres at least . |
| 26 | I was serious about acting in those days , but the hungrier I got the more my resolution sagged , until a guy I 'd known at college talked me into a job with the Defense Department . ’ |
| 27 | I experienced the agonisingly slow passage of time and decided that I needed to go to the toilet . |
| 28 | The influence of all three is perceptible in Nicholas Shakespeare 's first novel , though it is not so much the magical flights of Marquez as Greene 's Catholic mysticism which I found the most intriguing . |
| 29 | With unerring instinct I found the most expensive . |
| 30 | However , I found the most frightful difficulty in persuading the various captains of these teams from one flight or the other to let me join in . |