Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cooke says : ‘ Egg pasta is certainly preferred by many chefs not only because of its excellent colour and flavour , but because it offers them the possibility of upgrading their pasta menus , thus increasing their profits . ’ |
| 2 | The prison governor tells them they are about to be shot and offers them the choice of dying like men or wearing blindfolds . |
| 3 | They serve as a valuable corrective to approaches of the kind that a behaviourist view might encourage , approaches which impose conformity on learners , reduce the scope of their participation as persons , and deny them the exercise of individual initiative in the learning process . |
| 4 | Worse still , the new Leeds are as sly and provocative as Don Revie 's sides , with none of the skills which made them the Liverpool of the Seventies . |
| 5 | The tiny Regency houses had no doubt been listed to spare them the attentions of developers ; from the state of the paving stones and the grass-studded cracks in the roadway , it seemed that the town council too had passed them by . |
| 6 | This will spare them the necessity of checking to find out why you did n't acknowledge the call . |
| 7 | The models he works with may be shot by all the big name photographers , but it is the pictures that they do with Steven Meisel that will make them the icons of our times . |
| 8 | But does this make them the future of rock ‘ n ’ roll ? |
| 9 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 10 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 11 | ‘ Bring me the head of the crocodile , Roger . ’ |
| 12 | And that led me the think of phetam , and to wonder again if it really did confer super-powers . |
| 13 | She envied them the sense of occasion and togetherness that they had . |
| 14 | You 've assigned me the role of heartless villain financier , obsessed with money , wealth , and luxury . |
| 15 | Rounds of 67 , 69 , 66 and 65 made me the winner of the Lancome Trophy and a very happy man . |
| 16 | I think that if she had n't known us ; that I was a groom and Copper was pretty sensible , she would n't have given me the choice of trying to save him , especially as he was seventeen years old . |
| 17 | Since the advent of a car-ferry system connecting Denmark , Norway , Shetland , Faroe and Iceland , it has become easier for me to take a vehicle over and , because the ferry terminus in Iceland is in one of the eastern fiords called Seyðisfjördur — see data capture sheet , this has given me the opportunity of exploring the north and east coast of Iceland in greater detail . |
| 18 | A woman I know has given me the name of a midwife who will come and otherwise I shall have to engage a nurse for the shortest time possible since I can not be without assistance when my time comes . |
| 19 | There 's another in the keep would have done just as well , but seal or no seal , they 'd have wanted a better tale than I could think of before they 'd have given me the keys of the keep . |
| 20 | Talking to Pierre as we fished off the coast of Brittany had first given me the idea of working on a trawler . |
| 21 | Flaubert was delighted with the story : ‘ Do you know , Lapierre , you 've just given me the subject of a novel , the counterpart of my Bovary , a Bovary of high society . |
| 22 | There may well be some truth in that — certainly the Quakers I 've met have given me the impression of being caring and loving people . |
| 23 | ‘ Various people have given me the names of its chauffeurs over the years — , and , but I would be glad of any further information anyone may have of this wonderful carriage ’ he said . |
| 24 | At least it would have given me the prospect of seeing Mary Shelley again . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's given me the task of looking after your wants and bearing you company . |
| 26 | If you 'd known at the beginning that I knew your parents you would n't have even given me the time of day . |
| 27 | ‘ Lord , make me the instrument of Thy peace . |
| 28 | In Pitham & Hehl ( 1976 ) 65 Cr App R 45 , a person took the two defendants to his friend 's house and sold them the furniture of his friend who was in prison . |
| 29 | Give me the leave to make the best of my fortune and only pardon me the abuse of your house . |
| 30 | As the returns normally distinguish them the wealth of the gentry can be surveyed more generally , as shown in Table 1.3 . |