Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone tells me the other day that I , I 've you know y |
| 2 | Adorno 's critique , therefore , and in particular the critique of the Culture Industry is mounted from the increasingly beleaguered and restricted field of the avant garde , and it is this , in part , which wins it the current disapproval of the more enthusiastically affirmative , apparently democratic , or outright populist approaches to popular culture . |
| 3 | Today I have had a reply to a parliamentary question to the Minister , which tells me the latest figures of young people currently in young offender institutions . |
| 4 | All boys when about 12 undergo a great increase festival , the Sari , their second ‘ lessons in wizardry ’ , which gives them the internal clothing of the hunter and fisherman . |
| 5 | We use examples in the textbook , and often on audio , which gives them the greater realism of different voices and sound effects . |
| 6 | The quartet carries an instrumental arsenal which gives it the necessary weight to produce the ominous , bass-heavy sounds that accompany Max Schreck 's marvellously decrepit , zombie-like portrayal of Count Dracula . |
| 7 | It is best to shop around all the banks to see which gives you the best long-term deal rather than the biggest incentive to join . |
| 8 | You add on that fifty percent or whatever it happens to be to the hundred percent which gives you the new figure . |
| 9 | This is a combined account for borrowing and saving which gives you the automatic right to borrow money . |
| 10 | The poem which gives us the best insight into knightly and aristocratic life c. 1200 , L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal ( the story of William Marshal ) , rarely fails to tell us how much a particular horse was worth : it could be as much as forty , fifty or even a hundred livres — and this at a time when a serf could be bought for ten livres . |
| 11 | North of Dunkery Beacon , for example , the well-preserved ringwork of Sweetworthy is next to the abandoned medieval farm site — and possibly the Saxon predecessor which gives us the -worth element in Sweetworthy . |
| 12 | In other words , it is the poll tax crossed with a capital value tax — a roof tax crossed with a head tax — a cross-bred monster which gives us the worst of all worlds . |
| 13 | And they know everybody who 's worth knowing in the househunting jungle — which makes them the ideal people to recruit the rest of your team . |
| 14 | McLaren is , in Roxburgh 's estimation , ‘ an old man in his head ’ , which makes him the temperamental opposite of Ferguson . |
| 15 | He weighed in at sixteen stone , eleven pounds , which makes him the heaviest man ever to row in the boat race . |
| 16 | I suppose on the studio engineer evolutionary scale I rate about as high as the average amoeba , which makes me the perfect test pilot for this series of videos . |
| 17 | While still centred on Greek tragedy and associated topics , the plan began and ended with a wide range of other subjects from Buddhism to modern culture and education , from Schiller and Goethe and their drama to the generalities of " art " , " religion " and " science " ; the Greek items went from " Dionysus and Apollo " to " Plato against art " , via the central " music and drama " The plan contained no Greek items unrelated to tragedy , or the birth and death of tragedy , which makes it the earliest of Nietzsche 's plans to define the scope of the Greek material as eventually realized in BT . |
| 18 | It has no component of curvature lying in the surface , which makes it the straightest path possible over the surface . |
| 19 | She says it the same sort of consistency as yogurt but it 's salty and it 's warm and it 's not very nice at all she said . |
| 20 | She calls it the magic flannel and says : ‘ Mummy you 'll be fine . |
| 21 | Yeah , that 's , that 's when it 's hard she asks you the same thing again and again and a few minutes later , then half an hour later , then , then you think have you listened |
| 22 | She tells me the only freedom is that of the imagination . |
| 23 | a Chinese girl she 's living in it , in a kind of a real dive of loft thing to do her art and she gives him the odd painting instead of paying rent . |
| 24 | ‘ The wave is my lover and she gives me the ultimate orgasm . ’ |
| 25 | He comes to the door just like that ; no servants , no security phone , and that by itself gives you the green light ; you have n't the time for any finessing so you just kick him in the balls and follow him inside as he collapses , foetal on the floor . |
| 26 | But the man who gives us the clearest picture of the link between the Spirit and evangelism is St. Luke in his two volume work . |
| 27 | SHE does it the other way round , because we 're convinced that not only our readers , but most UK cooks , do n't cook metric . |
| 28 | Instead of the usual embarrassed note next morning , she leaves him the fragmentary manuscript of Rory 's own Crow Road : a folder of gnomic jottings and descriptions that represents a more substantial legacy than his father 's . |
| 29 | It is God as Spirit who brings us the intimate presence of God to us , enabling us to be friends of God . |
| 30 | Each one shows us the right way to go and we must learn to use it aright . |