Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well round near us they terrorized an eighty three year old lady er near us and er it was a , I met the man next door and his wife and they were the ones that got the police because he said they 'd got her furniture out on the pavement to with a doodah up there . |
| 2 | When Dexter met the superintendent twenty minutes later , Blanche stood outside the Inside Out office still chatting to the security guard . |
| 3 | Carol Clark met the psychologist 6 years ago . |
| 4 | Acheson met the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on 24 March to discuss the proposals for Greece and Turkey and to answer questions on Korea . |
| 5 | This 16-valve unit fits the Family II block in all 1.6 , 1.8 and two-litre forms . |
| 6 | I have travelled the region many times and always with enjoyment , but never with the eager anticipation of journeys in the north . |
| 7 | YVONNE Murray has Mary Decker 's eight-year-old record of 5min 34.8sec in her sights as she tackles the rarely-run 2,000 metres at the star-studded TSB International in Birmingham today . |
| 8 | The teachers in our study did use strategies which came into the first category , but it was the second which was the key to understanding the all-pervasive quality of the collaboration and the self-sufficiency of the children which had so impressed us , allowing the teacher uninterrupted periods of time for working with individuals and groups . |
| 9 | The landowner could terminate the tenancy at his pleasure , but , given the nature of farming , at pleasure would normally mean giving notice on certain days of the year , and allowing the tenant six months , principally in order to gather such crops as he may have planted . |
| 10 | Sharing the humanist outlook of the continental reformer , Desiderius Erasmus , they were in favour of allowing the laity easy access to English translations of the Bible , placing a greater emphasis on preaching , and instituting simplified forms of worship , stripped of superstitious practices such as the worship of relics and images . |
| 11 | a paper size in the series of ISO international paper sizes slightly larger than the A series allowing the printer extra space to bleed . |
| 12 | According to Jung , a simpler nature works on a more complicated one ‘ like a room that is too small ’ , not allowing the partner enough space . |
| 13 | In Brussels yesterday , EC transport ministers took a step towards allowing the executive European Commission to negotiate transport accords on behalf of EC states , when they agreed to set up a working party to see when and how the Commission could negotiate . |
| 14 | He has now completed the marathon three times and this year achieved his best time of 3 hours 39 minutes , coming 8,348th out of 27,000 runners . |
| 15 | He thinks I 'm a tramp , she thought , almost dispassionately , and he hates what he 's done , hates the way sexual desire 's lured him , tricked him . |
| 16 | Ken was mowing the lawn that afternoon . |
| 17 | Building the Lifeboat illuminated car in 1926 , demanded some knowledge of boat-building , as seen here . |
| 18 | When we started building the university twenty years ago we encountered a very unusual problem . |
| 19 | An Herefordshire company , Border Oak , is building the oak framed houses . |
| 20 | It was the first time he had conceded a game since building the device three years earlier . |
| 21 | ‘ Beineix dares much , pushing farce as far as it will go while simultaneously building the momentum that catapults the film into its tragic destination . |
| 22 | This involves the way these firms perceive their marketing effort . |
| 23 | The newARM 250 chip integrates the ARM 2 processor with all the other controller chips into one small device , and is at the heart of Acorn 's low and mid-range machines . |
| 24 | Eliot , who lent the circle considerable prestige , found himself in congenial assorted , and in some cases strange , company . |
| 25 | It can capture the nuances of soft and sensitive voices ; it alone can convey the rapport five singers achieve in the bonded intimacy of chamber music-making . |
| 26 | The State passed the bill 96 votes to 3 . |
| 27 | We passed the Porthreath disused aerodrome . |
| 28 | The secretary did as instructed and passed the test first time . |
| 29 | I am thankful and happy that there was a strange and foreign soul caring about the destiny of a political prisoner in East Germany … when we passed the border last night , I just cried . ’ |
| 30 | The NPC session approved these reports with minimal alteration , and also passed the Draft Basic Law for what would be the Hong Kong Special Autonomous Region [ see pp. 37248 ; 37376 ] . |