Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember when the sheep were quite happy nibbling grass and left me alone to munch my sandwiches . |
| 2 | I do n't think I am a cruel or sadistic person , but I believe both the people I have mentioned , and certainly the second , should have been put down , unless a medical operation could be found that ensured their cure . |
| 3 | The dog refused to budge , so , instructing the two older girls to hold tight to the younger , I heaved up the 196lb of stubborn fur and staggered to the railing I went down to extricate my struggling son and carried him upwards followed by shrieking pleas of , ‘ Daddy , do n't leave us ’ and ‘ I want a carry ’ , from the frantic tadpole in charge of two red-faced little girls who were now starting to show signs of stain and filling tear-ducts . |
| 4 | I remmed out the graphics . |
| 5 | At the agreed rate of 10¢ per column inch it meant that if I could provide two 25-inch columns per day , which was relatively easy for me , I could earn about $30 per week which was $6 more than I was getting when I gave up the staff job . |
| 6 | ‘ But sometimes I wonder where the series is going . |
| 7 | And I 've well the people , all the people I 've spoken to and everybody I 've spoken to is very unhappy ! |
| 8 | ‘ I wondered where the pair of you were hiding . |
| 9 | SIR — Following your article on the Liberal Democrats ( April 1 ) , may I ask when the media are going to stop ‘ being nice to Paddy Ashdown ’ ? |
| 10 | The memory of lightning flaring between the cracks in the boards and me pushing home the four-inch nails with numb fingers arrived simultaneous with the patter of descending footsteps … |
| 11 | Environmental groups successfully appealed against the issue of the general permit , and in July 1987 , won an injunction which cut short the salmon season for the drift-net fleet . |
| 12 | Yet it is often a hidden disability , which isolates both the people who suffer from it and their families . |
| 13 | ( a ) which sets out the data you assembled during your research in sufficient detail to allow your reader to understand the analysis that is to follow ; and ( b ) which refers your reader to more detailed research data in the appendices to your report . |
| 14 | The news sent shivers through financial markets which marked down the lira to five-month lows around 960 to the mark while bonds also lost ground . |
| 15 | Complaints to Strasbourg under the Convention can be used to force the Government to change administrative practices which shut out the media , and even to oblige it to legislate to give the media specific legal rights necessary to obtain access to information . |
| 16 | In science these distorting factors have been tackled by a powerful culture of verification , which provides both the means and the incentives for discovering and remedying errors . |
| 17 | When you round out the aircraft floats for a long way and flies very nose down . |
| 18 | We welcome people from every party , it does n't really matter which party , or even if they belong to no party , who are just committed to seeing a representative representation , seeing more women in there , because women in this country , just as a matter of fact , have a rather different experience from most men , and if you 're making a decision then you want there the people who have had a wide range of experience , who can bring that experience to bear on making the decision . |
| 19 | You bring lots of people in at junior management and through a series of apprenticeships you cream off the people who get to the top . |
| 20 | ‘ If you add up the people who voted for him and those who voted against him and those who did n't vote , you have to decide if that is a vote of confidence in him or not . ’ |
| 21 | the one on the corner , you know where the fish shop used to be |
| 22 | There is also an organisation chart and you fill in the data form for this rather like a bullet chart in order to create a tree diagrams . |
| 23 | In our view , the advertising award of the decade should go to the brain who thought up the series of anti-smoking television adverts which did not even mention lung cancer , but drew attention to the fact that smoking gives you bad breath . |
| 24 | Makers Aristoc , who wheeled out the £3.99 Bodytoners in London yesterday , reckon they 're top gear under figure-hugging clothes . |
| 25 | Their lands were now being occupied by poorer people , their former servants , who had not the means , nor , to judge from McQueen 's words , the energies or capacities to work the land properly ; by such measures were they witnessing the reduction of the great Scottish holdings . |
| 26 | You notice how the Pyracantha are there |
| 27 | Seneca wrote that ‘ when we want to reach a city or marketplace , we watch where the people are going and we follow them ; but in life we should watch where they go and then we should go in the opposite direction . ’ |
| 28 | Can we work out the e.m.f. with the aid of the concepts of flux linkage or flux cutting ? |
| 29 | God needs his nourishment , his daily fix of souls as by the million every day we drop off the perch , and so Bernard and Apricot — renamed Ellen as a condition of marriage — if they 're to do God 's will , must reproduce till the cows come home , though nowadays of course the cows never leave home in the first place , they 're linked up permanently to milking machines . |
| 30 | Now we know why the bream weighs less than a side-on view suggests it should . |