Example sentences of "[verb] the big [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The badly shaken Wiltern knows that if it does , however , he will lose his one chance to nail the biggest cocaine supplier in Los Angeles . |
| 2 | She went to the stone sink , scrubbed her hands under the single cold tap and set off on her perambulations again , slowly circling the big pine table , moving in and out of the gibbous pool of light shed by the candles . |
| 3 | At seven o'clock that night , William Darling went up the long stairs of the lighthouse to light the big oil lantern . |
| 4 | It was a poor match for the 1,019 crowd to endure and with both sides using the big boot upfield on the sloping pitch , it was n't a game for the purists . |
| 5 | While libraries currently remain the biggest CD-ROM user group , the numbers of business , professional and individual users is plainly rising rapidly . |
| 6 | He spread an oilcloth on the table then laid the big cutting board on top of it . |
| 7 | In what became the biggest spending spree the club with the Scrooge image has ever embarked on , Nicholas returned home to Parkhead along with his former Arsenal teammate Martin Hayes and another old Celtic Boys ' Club stalwart , the ex-Hibernian midfield player John Collins . |
| 8 | The Flowers arrived on the scene two years ago when their London Records LP , ‘ People ’ , became the biggest selling debut in Irish pop history . |
| 9 | BNS was established at Pontypool in South Wales post-war , and became the biggest nylon producer in Europe . |
| 10 | Yet it now looks inevitable that MPs and unions will be demanding the big spending schemes aimed at putting Britain back to work do exactly that . |
| 11 | Eat early Make the big meal breakfast and take the smallest in the evening . |
| 12 | In these areas there is often not enough wind to drive the bigger wind generators ; they require a minimum seven knots before they turn . |
| 13 | We 'd received a campaigns update from central office and had registered the big box pile up campaign with that campaign coordinator . |
| 14 | The Finance Houses Association , representing the biggest finance houses , told us that many of their members would say that a personal interview in an applicant 's own home , allowing the personal judgment of an experienced assessor , and an element of ‘ gut-feeling ’ would be the ideal . |
| 15 | The Hong Kong government is worried enough that , from today , it is capping harbour fees to attract the biggest ocean vessels . |
| 16 | But Philip Brook , general manager of Queens Moat 's Telford Hotel , Golf & Country Club in Shropshire , which has the biggest hotel swimming pool in the Midlands , argued that legislation was both necessary and possible . |
| 17 | Vauxhall continues to close the gap on Ford , which now has the biggest market share by just 2.24 per cent . |
| 18 | JOHN SMITH is preparing to launch the biggest tax assault ever on middle income families while claiming that he does not know what the effect of his tax hike will be on incentives , confidence or on the economy . |
| 19 | Conservative management of the economy has stoked the biggest credit boom in Britain 's history . |
| 20 | The cliffs are the highest in Britain , it is our most remote inhabited island and it holds the biggest gannet colony in the world . |
| 21 | She did a business course at weekends , stayed in Huddersfield during the week , paid for friends and helpers to stay there too , and hired the big factory machines . |
| 22 | How they put the big plastic things |
| 23 | If this latter is important , then we would expect the big rape cases which get a lot of media coverage to be especially important in the formation of beliefs , since they are more likely to be common currency for discussion than the smaller cases . |
| 24 | The Prime Minister heads the Government who have imposed the biggest tax burden in British history . |
| 25 | Even though by 1873 it was proclaimed the biggest brewing company in the world , Truman 's too found itself under pressure from the growing popularity of Burton ales . |
| 26 | Plans agreed on by the first meeting included a shopping trip to Holland to visit a shop which sells outsize jeans and sweat-shirts and another to Germany to a shop which claims to sell the biggest size shoes in the world . |
| 27 | Finally there is the flexible workforce of part-timers and temporary workers which has seen the biggest employment growth since the early 1980s , particularly in the service sector , and accounts for the majority of the growth in female employment . |
| 28 | There 's a depth here which goes far beyond pint-glass level and uncovers a songwriting strength which may become the big POD ace in the pack . |
| 29 | Oh yes but they 've been doing distance learning course they 've got the biggest distance learning course in Europe |
| 30 | At the end of November , ten or eleven boys climbed the big walnut tree in the middle of the village , swinging about among its branches , and women and children scrabbled laughingly for the nuts as they fell . |