Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently , the guru had played little part in the proceedings , confining himself to putting records on the gramophone ; and this , for Eliot , seemed to render him the more sinister . |
| 2 | Mlle Adjani , who has a 13-year-old son , Barnaby , by director Bruno Nuytten , wo n't talk about the relationship , but does say : ‘ He has great Irish charm and used to give me the most poetic gifts . ’ |
| 3 | However , hotel management do occasionally change this arrangement at very short notice ; we will endeavour to give you the most up-to-date information on request . |
| 4 | Our ‘ tailor-made ’ classes , planned to your needs , air to give you the most effective results . |
| 5 | He was presented with a video recorder by his colleagues and friends who had gathered to wish him the very best on his retirement . |
| 6 | " Today I am going to teach you the most important lesson you will ever learn during your studies . |
| 7 | Those who have seen the San Francisco 49ers ' Jerry Rice perform over the past eight years have been tempted to call him the most dangerous wide receiver in NFL history . |
| 8 | Pity and compassion must flood our souls when we think of our fellowmen , and especially those who seem to trouble us the most . |
| 9 | The central question , then , is not whether or not we should tolerate the rules and conventions , the systems of thought , the preconceptions that regulate enquiry and instruction — for if our enterprise is to have any significance at all we have to — but which rules , conventions , and preconceptions are likely to offer us the most relevant and reliable set of bearings for our work , and how we are to use them so that we can allow for their modification , or even their complete replacement , when new insights and experiences need to be accommodated . |
| 10 | It cost 60 francs to send a ton of freight from London to Braila , on the Black Sea , by ship ; to take it the much shorter distance from Vienna to Bucarest by rail cost 160 francs . |
| 11 | Their high survival rate and their official inscriptions have combined to make them the most easily and most accurately datable of all archaeological artefacts . |
| 12 | On Sat 28th , for instance , you can witness the explosive talent of guitarist Jan Cyrka , who has teamed up with bass virtuoso Pascal Mulot to bring you the most lethal double-act since Smith met Wesson . |
| 13 | South East Arts tries to bring you the most interesting events in music , drama , literature and the visual arts . |
| 14 | Never slow to bring you the very best in dynamic demos , the ZZAP ! 64 Megatape department proudly preeeezents — TURBO THE TORTOISE ! |
| 15 | Called ‘ Robben Ford & Blue Line ’ ( GRS 11022 ) , it looks likely to gain him the even higher profile as a soloist he so richly deserves . |
| 16 | This problem was to make it the most accident-prone routine in Tiller history . |
| 17 | Telethon co-ordinator Margo Horsley said this week : ‘ This is the last time TVS will be able to take part in Telethon , and there is tremendous enthusiasm at the station to make it the most exciting ever . |
| 18 | Movies also pulled in big audiences with ITV 's Saturday night showing of Three Men And A Baby in February attracting 18.3 million to make it the most popular film at No 11 . |
| 19 | She exposed the soles of her feet at the mouth of the oven … she drank gall and rubbed her eyes therewith … in her ardent desire for suffering she made herself a silver circlet in which she fixed three rows of sharp points in honour of the thirty-three years that the Son of God lived upon earth … she wore it underneath her veil to make it the more painful as these points being unequally long did not all pierce at the same time … so that with the least agitation these iron thorns tore her flesh in ninety-nine places … |
| 20 | Now my Lord , your Lordship would of seen from , in fact the same case , and now from the continental television case , both in the divisional court and in the court of appeal , that where a reference is to be made the court that is making the reference , it what is sort to be done is either to challenge a British statute or in the case of er , er the red hot Dutch case , in fact the terms were caused in the statute er something which in involves a ministerial decision , but in either of those instances the court has got to decide in the interim whether or not the statute or measure should remain in force and there is the priority of public policy as indicated in er Lord er speech referred to both in the divisional court and in the court of appeal in continental television in maintaining the law in force and a , a bonus has to be faced by the person seeking discipline the law to show us the simply strong case to justify the er , er the suspension of the law in the interim . |