Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer , Kenneth Clarke tells the programme how she once asked : ‘ Why do I have to do everything in this Government ? ’ and no-one had the nerve to give her the obvious answer — she did n't have to do everything . |
| 2 | The Syrian foreign minister who , after meeting Douglas Hurd , evoked the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 in which the British and the French secretly carved up the Middle East between them ( later using the League of Nations to give them the so-called Mandates as a cover ) , was not making some arcane and irrelevant allusion . |
| 3 | Three are commonly identified i.e. national , local and school , and in an attempt to clarify them the following paragraphs examine each in turn . |
| 4 | And we have more plans for the future to make it the ultimate private leisure club . |
| 5 | They really do stand a better chance being left there to their own devices for the parents to feed them the right diet than being picked up and brought here . |
| 6 | The first flowering plant I saw was a familiar one — the purple mountain saxifrage , Saxafraga oppositifolia to give it the scientific name . |
| 7 | Now that you are completing the preliminary studies and will shortly be embarking on the more complicated part of the syllabus , I feel that , at this stage , it would be of benefit to give you the following lessons in an endeavour to press home to you the importance and value of your continued perseverance . |
| 8 | Runners are more conservative , instead of their heads they look to their shoes to give them the competitive edge . |
| 9 | You remember I gave Ollie to tell you the new terms of … |
| 10 | I 've got to take a second to tell you the whole so-called Iran scandal , I think hard to think of as a scandal . |
| 11 | While the rest of the card world attempts to move on by using humour or Snoopy dogs to sell us the festive season , charity Christmas cards remain as old-fashioned , tedious and unimaginative as they have always been . |
| 12 | Passage of the new measure ( which had already been approved by the Senate in September 1989 ) precipitated an unprecedented constitutional crisis because of King Baudouin 's refusal to give it the royal assent . |
| 13 | There was no doctor , no magic seer to give her the golden branch and lead her into the underworld , only yet another pretty young woman , the radiological technician . |
| 14 | The other end of the pole was attached to a treadle , which exploited the natural springiness of the pole , tightening the rope to turn the wood one way , then relying on the spring in the pole to turn it the other way as the rope was released . |
| 15 | ‘ You went off before I had a chance to thank you the other day … ’ |
| 16 | If you 're the first correct entry out of the hat we 'll be straight on the phone to give you the good news and arrange the presentation . |
| 17 | This state-of-the-art shaver has three positions to give you the perfect shave and a trimmer for those with sideburns and/or moustache . |
| 18 | That 's why we aim to empower young people to give them the maximum choice to build their own success . |
| 19 | Perhaps we need men like Denis O'Neil to give us the pointless perspective , to underline the fact we do not live by bread alone but by blarney and beauty and other indefinable things that do n't always make money . |
| 20 | She came out into the starlit night , and beckoned one of the battered taxis to take her the short distance to the Monte Samana complex . |
| 21 | We plan our holidays to give you the maximum enjoyment . |
| 22 | However , significant resources are also being made available by the private sector where there is no immediate commercial gain : thus IBM UK Ltd has donated £3.5m. of computing equipment to UNEP and IBM in general is actively supporting other R&D which can be expected to facilitate ‘ sustainable development ’ : IBM Europe , for instance , has invested $16m. in its Bergen scientific centre to make it the focal point for the company 's environmental modelling and a centre for information on the environment and sustainable development . |
| 23 | She had scarcely seen the Mercedes that had swung into the drive just as she 'd been about to go out , but by sheer instinct she had swerved to miss it , sparing only a glance in the mirror to tell her the other car was safe before speeding on her way again . |
| 24 | In a modest attempt to amend the damage accumulated over centuries by this pernicious little fiction , I asked the children to give me the Other Version , particularly Eve 's , but Adam 's or God 's as well if they preferred . |
| 25 | I am hoping to meet some of the children before the Marathon and when the pain barrier hits me at around 20 miles I will only need to think of the courage and bravery of these young children to give me the extra incentive I need to finish the race . |
| 26 | Well you call it a run-on line and you call it an enjambement line to give it the French term . |
| 27 | All my young ferrets get a similar introduction to give them the necessary experience for bigger operations within major burrow systems . |
| 28 | Until early in the eighteenth century , moreover , foreign diplomats when given audience by the sultan were expected to wear a Turkish-style robe over their normal clothing in order to spare him the repellent sight of European dress . |
| 29 | With the upstart Parsons that margin was as wide as a motorway , of course , but even Thomas Carter , Nature 's gentleman , could n't help getting it ever so slightly wrong , in his case by bending over backwards to minimize his achievements and rubbish his accomplishments in order to spare you the painful comparison with your own lacklustre status . |
| 30 | While Babcock Thorn yesterday emphasised its jobs announcement had nothing to do with the Trident issue , the losses will clearly increase the pressure on ministers to award it the nuclear submarine work . |