Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visitors to Buckingham are hard pressed to guess what the gothic style building in the town 's centre once was . |
| 2 | — You want to see who the real winner is , then look up there . ’ |
| 3 | He talked of ‘ the white man 's Christ ’ , invoked to preserve what the white man has got ; and of the ‘ black man 's Christ ’ — the Christ of suffering and sacrifice . |
| 4 | The Treasury Bench has heard what the hon. Gentleman said . |
| 5 | The Queen has been told that she is not to summon anybody to form a Government until she has heard who the new Leader is . |
| 6 | She has suffered much in the last decade but that experience has given her the inner fortitude to shoulder the emotional burden she must carry on the next stage of her life 's journey . |
| 7 | Expressing his pleasure at working with TAG , said , ‘ My experience over the last 20 years has given me the scientific and technical background which the modern catering industry requires . |
| 8 | An anonymous businessman has given them the remaining amount . |
| 9 | A FRENCHWOMAN has given herself the ultimate facelift in an attempt to create the perfect features . |
| 10 | The onward march of technological progress has given us the user-friendly sealed cassette , much more difficult to damage or tamper with — or to intervene in ( and to recreate on modern machines ) . |
| 11 | I only wonder why nobody has given us the small print of the Social Chapter that Labour and the Liberal Democrats want so badly . |
| 12 | TELEVISION has given us the dramatised documentary Last week The Sunday Telegraph , in its report ‘ Cambridge blues as Oxford bags title ’ , gave us the dramatised book review . |
| 13 | The East , on the other hand , has given us the long-haired Persian cat from sixteenth-century Iran , the silky Angora cat from Turkey at the same period ( when Ankara was pronounced Angora ) , and the exotic , long-legged Siamese cat from seventeenth-century Thailand . |
| 14 | God has given us the Holy Spirit so that He can work in His world . |
| 15 | Ithaca has given you the beautiful voyage . |
| 16 | So why put him under the pressure , she sa cos I said , I want to know what the long-term effect of me taking him out of this is , because , effectively I 'm taking him out of something of the system , knowing , he 's going to miss that . |
| 17 | The frequent manifestation of a melancholy figure at Covent Garden Underground Station has earned it the unwanted title of the most haunted station on the London Transport system . |
| 18 | The therapist needs to know what the main problems are , what caused them , what maintains them , and what possibilities there are for change . |
| 19 | If your business is larger it takes more organisation and record keeping to know what the magic formula is for each customer . |
| 20 | Stevie cos he tried to fry himself the other week |
| 21 | Mr Heseltine can reasonably say that he has done what the political reality required of him . |
| 22 | It has done it the old-fashioned way , with teamwork , better quality and new models that appeal to its customers . |
| 23 | But now Mr Gorbachev has made himself the unpalatable alternative . |
| 24 | A lifetime 's devotion to ants has made him the principal authority on the subject . |
| 25 | Such altered viruses can transduce non-replicating cells , including differentiated epithelial cells of the respiratory tract and elsewhere , and this has made them the chosen vectors for genetic therapy of cystic fibrosis . |
| 26 | This has been the practice in many countries internationally , but our sudden realisation of its effectiveness in creating bilingualism has made it the major discovery in language acquisition . |
| 27 | Flashman has made us the laughing stock of football . |
| 28 | Eliot told me that if he misses his tea he is no good for anything until he has had it the following day . ’ |
| 29 | The arts minister , Jordi Sole Tura , wants to give it the ornate edifice that currently houses the ministry of agriculture . |
| 30 | But it does , by this convention , proclaim itself to be a book of a special kind , one designed to proclaim what the faithful believe about Christ , not necessarily a book which is straight narrative history in the modern mode . |