Example sentences of "[verb] the big [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using the biggest pot you have simply plunge it into lots of boiling salted water . |
| 2 | When Vincent wrote impulsively to congratulate Mauve on completing the big work he had laboured at for so long , he got no reply . |
| 3 | As he knows , he got the biggest majority he has ever had in his constituency against me . |
| 4 | This is Honey , Dan 's fiancee , this man has the biggest knob you will ever see in your life and it 's all mine |
| 5 | ‘ That man has the biggest heart I know . ’ |
| 6 | They were the workers and er they sort of opened their kitchen up , or the back scullery , they went round to the local butcher scrounging and begging meat , to the greengrocers for peas , parsnips , carrots , you name it it all went into this big huge copper , which I 've previously described to you as a washing copper , and they boiled all this soup up and we kids used to take the a jug and er we had to find the biggest jug we could , in the house that we could get , well the biggest jug we ever had was the wash-hand stand that was in the bedroom , that 's the wash-hand stand jug . |
| 7 | Now he faced the biggest obstacle he would ever have to clear , for the only chance of cure lay in a long and horrifically painful course of chemotherapy . |
| 8 | Try to buy the biggest bed you have room for |
| 9 | So I thought as we 've still got the biggest guarantee I would go to it . |
| 10 | But it was no use bemoaning her fate — she must make the best of it and hope that time would eventually heal the biggest wound she had ever experienced . |
| 11 | She lifted the towel that covered the big bowl we use for making bread . |
| 12 | The industry is comparing the biggest boom it ever had — the peak in 1989-90 — with today 's admittedly lower level of activity . |
| 13 | And er the reason we took the biggest jug we could find it was n't so much to feed two children in the house you 're parents also wanted a bowl because believe me in those times we were we were hungry , we were dear , very very hungry . |
| 14 | One of them was carrying the biggest banana you 've ever seen ! |
| 15 | But if her foot 's wider , you 'll get the bigger size it 'll take it up on the length bit . |
| 16 | I think the bigger bag you put , the more you su rubbish |
| 17 | ‘ After the defeat at Bramall Lane they had the biggest hammering they 've had off me for a long time . |
| 18 | Crueller still is the fact that a loss to 16 fight challenger is likely to rob McKenzie of his last chance to make the big money he richly deserves after 10 years of sterling service . |
| 19 | However , during a break in filming The Big Sleep I did join him and Robert Mitchum for a drink at a nearby pub . |