Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After moving to England , he fought for over two years without being defeated and reckoned : ‘ Ninety per cent of the public wanted to see me win the British title . |
| 2 | I did n't mean to become so intense about it — I had realised my mistake the previous time — but I needed to keep from pining and working a sixteen-hour day seemed to be the only way I could manage it . |
| 3 | Well it 's absolutely horrendous , they 'll think my God the British class system is completely |
| 4 | Catching my eye the young medic grinned and gave a thumbs-up sign . |
| 5 | In the second half of 1934 and in 1935 the movement all but collapsed as a national force , and to revive its fortunes the fascist political programme was de-emphasized and instead more attention was paid to fomenting local and regional grievances in populist campaigns . |
| 6 | If Heini 's wife , Tita , a former Miss Spain , has her way the final home of the picture will be Madrid . |
| 7 | Her flippancy helped her distance the odd reality of the blue that wove through her vision . |
| 8 | ‘ And these fellers used to go to sea like that ; and in these boats they were gone ten and twelve weeks , and they slept in little bunks , and they never changed their clothes the whole time . |
| 9 | If so , he will often need to know what action the local authority has taken before the matter came to court and whether this complied with the requirements of the Act . |
| 10 | I hear you did n't have er , you did n't enjoy your liver the other day ? |
| 11 | Police now believe the couple met their deaths the following day , when their red Vauxhall Astra van was found abandoned at Manchester Airport . |
| 12 | Parents deny their children the outdoor play that they themselves enjoyed . |
| 13 | Arrangements were carefully made so that Lunia would not be compromised and Modigliani came to paint her portrait the following day in the Sunny Hotel on the Boulevard de Port-Royal , the little lodging house where Zborowski was living with his handsome and somewhat forbidding common-law wife , Anna ( Hanka ) Zborowska . |
| 14 | " To-morrow I 've promised to take Lizzie to see her niece the other side of Bridgeborough , " Sara said quickly , glad of the genuine excuse . |
| 15 | Miss Bedwelty had said she would come over to see their horses the following week . |
| 16 | And the police , disregarding the reds , heads , freaks , revolution , and rock at the front of the paper , made their target the gay contact personal ads at the back . |
| 17 | In ‘ Understanding Labels ’ , for instance , an article in the ALBSU ( Adult Literacy and Basic Skills Unit ) Newsletter , it is pointed out that many of the subjects questioned about their ‘ reading ’ of a label on a bottle of pills would have given their children the wrong dosage as a direct result of the interpretation of the layout of the instructions . |
| 18 | as if to signal their displeasure the Dutch parliament passed a constitutional amendment in 1952 incorporating West New Guinea into the Netherlands and closing off further discussion of the issue . |
| 19 | — One explanation is that when visitors to West Africa pointed at the land around them and asked its name the local people though they were indicating a group of nearby women . |
| 20 | I deeply resent Michael Rowan-Robinson 's insinuation that I have been ‘ disreputable ’ in my use of a review article by Bernard Carr and Martin Rees in writing my book The Accidental Universe ( Review , 20 January , p 186 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ I never went to drama school , ’ he would say without a hint of regret , ‘ but learnt my craft the hard way . ’ |
| 22 | Bolivians prefer to choose their governments the democratic way , but this is not to say that they admire the means at present available for doing it . |
| 23 | When the Queen came to visit her grandchild the following day her comment was typical . |
| 24 | She learnt her lesson the hard way . |
| 25 | Stories abound of how the Whitley crews learnt their trade the hard way . |
| 26 | He is not over fond of strangers , but he will allow people into the house , although he monitors their movements the whole time . ’ |
| 27 | To widen its support the Communist Party sent representatives to a meeting with the National Unemployed Workers Movement and the ILP . |
| 28 | In a bid to regain his machine the unemployed roofer climbed to the top of a building , ripped off tiles and threw them into the street , it was alleged . |
| 29 | DR ROBERT Answers Your Queries The big question this month is sound : it 's muffled ; it 's too directional ; it oscillates or it 's just not quite bluesy enough … |
| 30 | If the wind blows and snow fills your footprints the safe way between the crevasses will be lost . |