Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know who the other five are . ’ |
| 2 | As she approached the reception desk she saw that the Cooks were already there , apparently having trouble understanding something the short balding clerk was trying to explain . |
| 3 | Occasionally I might buy him the big third Mac , the third Big Mac , just to prove to him he ca n't eat it , and this establishes in the superego a , that the , the superego to some extent speaks for reality and , and the reality sense is part of the , is part of the standards which are built into , which are built into the superego , and to , and therefore to a large extent the superego opposes the pleasure principle that operates in the id . |
| 4 | In May 1953 the state Department told the British that the Shah wanted to know what the British expected of him . |
| 5 | We must , therefore , use such instances empirically to help to establish what the internal linguistic norms of the community actually are , and to do this is to be accountable to the data in quite a strong sense . |
| 6 | I do not know what the right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) heard , but I distinctly heard the Foreign Secretary answer yes on several occasions . |
| 7 | Damned if the foundation could have this picture ; she 'd give them the nameless three condemned as undisciplined talent . |
| 8 | ‘ Any chance of anyone passing me the odd anabolic steroid , this week ? |
| 9 | I have a Roland U220 which would give me the sounds I want although I know it would not give me the great note-sequence loops which McLaughlin uses so beautifully . |
| 10 | little bits , little bits and I 'll buy you your tobacco Neil nothing much but little bits of something now if he were working and could give me the full sixty that is thirty for his room and thirty for his food so that I did n't have to worry about th actually paying for him but he was paying me Paul is going to pay me fifty that 's thirty pounds in , I made a rule to Paul that he is going to eat thirty pounds worth of food and there are only twenty pounds in my profit and then the other rule , a man called Alan this window cleaner he wants the room that I 'm in at the moment |
| 11 | Ma'am , sir I should say , erm Mr makes certain comments about there are doubts about whether this scheme will go forward , we have been in contact with Department of Transport , again to try and give you the correct factual position . |
| 12 | Oh dear I 'm sorry , I 'll give you the other hundred from for February . |
| 13 | I was talking on Sue , I was saying if you 've got a client who did n't give you the convenient forty two pounds , but said you 'd got forty or thirty pounds to spend , the first thing you 've got to do is take off the two pounds policy fee , so you 're left in this case , with thirty eight pounds . |
| 14 | Even if you 're as good as a master they still wo n't give you the top black |
| 15 | I handed over my life 's savings and promised that I would give her the other nineteen and six before the year was up . |
| 16 | Consequently there are no cases in our books which show what the appropriate determinate sentence is specifically for that offence . |
| 17 | Matthew stumbled a bit on this question , trying to remember what the prevailing feminist attitudes were towards such things as parenting and families . |
| 18 | My right hon. Friend the leader of the Labour party has never said what the right hon. Gentleman has suggested — and the right hon. Gentleman knows that that is the case . |
| 19 | Rather than procrastinating with shadow trusts , why does he not do what the incoming Labour Government will do and abandon the ill-conceived , ill-considered , useless and unwanted ideas about trust hospitals ? |
| 20 | He shows me the clean pink palms of his hands , and he raises his bushy eyebrows . |
| 21 | Faye whispered , her eyes misting and her throat going froggy as she showed them the tiny black-haired bundle cradled tightly in her arms . |
| 22 | the only reason that police get away with drink driving is cos half the buggers are Masons and they give them the old funny hand shake and its oh on your way sir |
| 23 | ‘ Give me the bad first . ’ |
| 24 | He showed me the big green gabled home of Ireland 's Minister of Finance . |
| 25 | The Hexagonale regional grouping ( comprising Austria , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Italy , Poland and Yugoslavia — see p. 38508 ) decided in Vienna on Jan. 28 to rename itself the Central European Initiative with immediate effect ; Yugoslavia did not participate in the meeting but Slovenia and Croatia were represented . |
| 26 | By four months , Madame de Chavigny , when you 'll start to feel it stir — and then maybe give you the odd hefty kick-the foetus is — ‘ |
| 27 | Properly installed — and full instructions accompany the Sleep-safe Smoke Alarm — a smoke detector will warn you of smouldering in the earliest stages of a fire and give you the vital few minutes that really could make the difference between death and survival . |
| 28 | Her view of the driver of the Renault , albeit only a back view , had shown her the thick dark hair of someone obviously quite young . |
| 29 | To help Cinderella catch midnight , give her the Swiss International Watch Company 's £150,000 Grande Complication timepiece . |
| 30 | Beneath the shirt , the mirror showed her the small fine flowers of her delicate bra could be seen . |