Example sentences of "[vb base] [det] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victoria Scarborough and Colin Watson , taking five roles apiece , prove adept at giving every character a distinctive individuality while subtly stressing the continuities which make each the mirror image of one another 's frailties . |
| 2 | Why did Van Gogh not make that the centre ? |
| 3 | The idea started in our Care Committee — we raise half the money for the conversions , the Council supplies the other half . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ No , no , my boy , you lose half the flavour that way , ’ frowned his father . |
| 5 | I mean half the time I think I do n't remember anything because er er , people are so busy blooming playing around and |
| 6 | Make this the year you join your local county wildlife trust . |
| 7 | Carrots curled into roses and golden hedgehog potatoes sneered : Make this the year you take on the challenge of making your vegetables more interesting . |
| 8 | ‘ Make this the exception . ’ |
| 9 | If you own a ribber and colour changer , make this the autumn you really go for double jacquard . |
| 10 | Place half the spinach in the bottom of a baking dish . |
| 11 | Stand the post on a bed of rubble , then empty half the bag of mix into the hole . |
| 12 | Melt half the butter in a saucepan , add the beans and cook gently for a couple of minutes , stirring , then add the savory and just enough boiling water to cover the beans . |
| 13 | He said that 's what you 've got to do first thing Monday morning , find out where that car is , he said , and then you want half the money |
| 14 | LENNOX LEWIS last night threw down the ultimate gambit to world heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe saying : ‘ If fighting me is so personal , let's do it and send all the money to Africa . ’ |
| 15 | About every two months we send all the lot back and renew them . |
| 16 | Some large companies employ their own photographers but very often these people are expected to handle a good deal of clerical work as well as take and process all the photography . |
| 17 | You can still see it going on today and it still happens does n't it like the Good News Bible if you look at that , I mean this a version of the Bible rewritten , presumably to tell people good news I do n't know , I 've never , never read it but I presume that that 's what the Good News Bible does and we now have countless bibles , where , where , where , where God is , God is female erm my guess is supposing that were the only Bible we had a feminist bible were no other bible and everybody for hundreds of years believed it , my guess is that in the future literary critics and bible critics could study that very carefully and I bet you somewhere there you 'll find internal evidence to show that once God had been male and had his gender changed , I 'm quite sure of it because edit a whole book like the Bible and completely eliminate all the evidence that God was once male would be a very difficult here , here and there you need little bits of evidence and , and again there 's lots of others I 'll mention in the lecture like God 's name . |
| 18 | The next day , attach all the lock fittings to the chest with royal icing and let dry . |
| 19 | And I expect all the other 's are dead ! |
| 20 | ‘ And hope my up-and-coming team-mate here has n't decided to annihilate me and grab all the glory for himself . ’ |
| 21 | Well the first crane I drove was a was only at that so I was stuck on one of them and I had to sling me grab all the time and this , this bridge come round and miss the bridge and go over it and rush it down to the hold . |
| 22 | ‘ … jingle all the way … ’ |
| 23 | No jingle bells , jingle bells , jingle all the way , oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh |
| 24 | Jingle bells , jingle bells , jingle all the way , oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh |
| 25 | Jingle all the way . |
| 26 | Jingle all the way . |
| 27 | Jingle bells , jingle bells , jingle all the way |
| 28 | Jingle bells , jingle bells , jingle all the way . |
| 29 | Jingle bells jingle bells , jingle all the way . |
| 30 | I could have done with a little more natural variation in the sound , but seeing that all Kirk is probably going to do with it is leave it on the neck pickup , knock all the middle off at the amp and turn it up to an excruciating volume , it does n't have to be the most variable guitar in the world . |