Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] the big [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Nyers and his reformists now stand a very good chance of becoming the biggest party in the new parliament . |
| 2 | Antonio was positively bouncing with the honour of serving the big man himself . |
| 3 | A real estate agent and descendant of one of the old missionary families , he set out with only a minimal grasp of technique to achieve the simple objective of riding the biggest wave in history . |
| 4 | So who should receive the accolade of riding the biggest wave ? |
| 5 | The comfort of having the big glass here at last , he wrote , of living in the shadow of its coldness , its emptiness . |
| 6 | Cumani has a chance of taking the big sprint on the Knavesmire with Khaydara , but she has not run since June and will be hard pressed to hold Runun ( 3.45 ) , who was the convincing winner of a valuable Ascot handicap on his last outing . |
| 7 | Already it had whipped the shallow water inside the reef into short seas , white-capped and capable of stopping the big cat in its tracks if he had tried sailing for the far point and Belpan City . |
| 8 | When we neared the outskirts of Donegal Town , the driver told me that the former maid suspected young Mulverin of pillaging the Big House for building material . |
| 9 | Then the Seattle-based group hit on a sure-fire way of making the big time . |
| 10 | Another Challenge Tour player with potential of making the big time is Kevin Golding . |
| 11 | With only 9,000 tickets allocated to the county , many are faced with the prospect of watching the big match on television . |
| 12 | With only 9,000 tickets allocated to the county , many are faced with the prospect of watching the big match on television . |
| 13 | The president accused Clinton of planning the biggest tax increases seen in US history . |
| 14 | Today , CD-A looks like becoming the biggest success in consumer electronics since the television . |
| 15 | Institutions , of course , will be the suckers conned into spending the big money for all this equipment . |
| 16 | And we are still successful in having the biggest market share of any Western European producer in his own national market . ’ |
| 17 | Very careful thought is needed , though , before taking the big step of spending a large sum of money to purchase a regular income , for there can be snags , and it is wise to get quotations from several of the major insurance companies , and the advice of a solicitor , before proceeding . |
| 18 | ROCKER Danny Bowles was convinced his career was over when he suddenly went stone deaf … hours before playing the biggest gig of his career . |
| 19 | Woosnam failed from eight feet or less on four of the opening six holes , and it proved crucial as Ogle rattled in four birdies in a 69 before snatching the biggest win of his career . |
| 20 | Mr Yeltsin and the West have a shared interest in claiming the biggest figure for the aid package , so there has been little dissent over the headline-seizing ‘ $13 billion ’ . |
| 21 | However , during a break in filming The Big Sleep I did join him and Robert Mitchum for a drink at a nearby pub . |
| 22 | Before hitting the big time , the closest brush she had with anyone famous was tinting Ringo Starr 's mum 's hair who used to treat her to tea afterwards — spam and chips . |
| 23 | When Vincent wrote impulsively to congratulate Mauve on completing the big work he had laboured at for so long , he got no reply . |
| 24 | But it had been decentralised without attacking the big cost structures and without the addition of any procedures , with the result that two functional layers were beginning to develop business managers were starting to grow their own subsidiary boards with their own functional capability while the organisation as a whole retained its own capability . |
| 25 | No prizes for guessing the big sporting event of the weekend . |
| 26 | The Million , with IR £1m in prize money , is the world 's richest two-year-old race and challenges the Arc for offering the biggest prize in Europe . |
| 27 | Because this was the contraption 's trial run , it was to be driven manually by turning the big wheel . |
| 28 | Within this price range , a six-foot tank is out , so let's start by getting the biggest tank possible ready . |