Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] the [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks but no-thanks , we 'd rather make the programme we want to , despite the horrendous budget problems . |
| 2 | Pop culture thus works through an amalgam of attitude , inspiration , intuition and detail ( for nobody is as obsessive as the true pop fan , whose obsession is rarely given the respect it deserves ) ; crucially , it works best not in public , where the terms of discourse are set by the dominant culture , but in private space . |
| 3 | There is also a third form of competition , one which comes neither from the academy , nor from the laity , one by which we are all influenced but which rarely receives the attention it deserves : novelists , journalists , film-makers and dramatists are , at least in part , also professional students of the social world . |
| 4 | Upon conviction , she ( I use the pronoun ‘ she ’ for the sake of convenience here ) appealed on the ground that the statute expressly made the crime one which only a man could commit . |
| 5 | If the Consortium eventually wins the case it would give other embattled communities and planning authorities fresh confidence to challenge outstanding IDO claims , rather than compromise . |
| 6 | At least half a dozen six-figure offers for Jodami have been rejected , and Beaumont said : ‘ They eventually got the message he was not on the market . |
| 7 | When I nervously entered the breakfast-room I looked up at — a black column ! |
| 8 | The police interrogator tends to approach his suspect , and sometimes even witnesses , with definite expectations which could inadvertently affect the information he gets from them . |
| 9 | He was smiling widely at her now , saying , ‘ I had to tell nurse not to say they were n't coming in to see the doctor they expected . |
| 10 | The man who the media said could do no right , because he would n't give straight answers and most of all enjoyed mocking the stupidity of the press , suddenly became the man who could do no wrong . |
| 11 | By taking away a people 's culture and pride in their appearance , you literally change the way they see themselves . ’ |
| 12 | This will not only reassure the candidate you know what you are doing , which will encourage his/her cooperation , it will also keep it clear in your own mind . |
| 13 | As someone who worked in the BMC when it was at its height , and who has very long acquaintance with both protagonists , I can vouch for the veracity of Dennis 's story as told here , and can only lament the nit-picking which has continued even after its publication in this book . |
| 14 | The wind must be blowing from them to you , since this not only minimises the noise you may inadvertently make but it prevents your scent blowing towards the rabbits and giving them advance warning that all 's not well . |
| 15 | It is a good test of an essay 's cohesion to work through a draft underlining all its cohesive devices , perhaps using the list we provide here . |
| 16 | The sea crossing served only to emphasise the idyll we left behind . |
| 17 | I had , however , the good fortune not only to kill the bird myself , but , in one instance , to find its nest , from which I shot a female . ’ |
| 18 | A pity the author only got the respect she deserved after her untimely death . |
| 19 | So I went down to see the secretary who I found out was in the flying horse and er told him who I was , Ooh yes , ooh yes , you 're playing this afternoon , are n't you ? |
| 20 | ‘ It is , ’ she agreed , then bit her lip , only seeing the trap he 'd set for her when she 'd already tumbled straight into it . |
| 21 | It used to be thought that there was a seaward movement of water on the bottom , so producing the undertow which was considered so dangerous to bathers . |
| 22 | It later transpired that the Russians knew perfectly well what had happened , but were obviously enjoying the confusion their seemingly naive questions were provoking . |
| 23 | Luke was obviously enjoying the effect his ‘ lair ’ was having on her . |
| 24 | While the DUC itself had amassed information and expertise by now to undertake this study itself , it realized that the report would have to be produced from outside the community if it was to have legitimacy or to be seen in any way as neutral : ‘ We in the Committee felt that we knew enough to write the report ourselves but we also felt that it would n't be acceptable to the County Council so we had to get somebody else to do it ’ . |
| 25 | WHEN Swedish authorities suddenly changed the wording they wanted on 50,000 yacht paint cans , Courtaulds Coatings found itself slap in the middle of a crisis . |
| 26 | However rhetorically brilliant , the critique which Adorno and Horkheimer in Dialectic of Enlightenment offer is ultimately a totalizing discourse in which the dialectic struggles and twists against itself , serving only to tighten the knot which binds it . |
| 27 | The central point is that by controlling the moving pictures of dissent , governments believe that they can not only minimize the dissent itself but also completely remove the major source of criticism . |
| 28 | In a while we had drawn close enough to sight the planet itself — a slowly enlarging spot of brightness on the ceptor screens — by which time Posi had contacted the spaceport . |
| 29 | Barbecues vary , so test the food yourself before serving . |
| 30 | He had noticed straight away that Angel One was unarmed , having obviously discarded the gun he had fired in the corridor earlier . |