Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | This 16-valve unit fits the Family II block in all 1.6 , 1.8 and two-litre forms . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | a paper size in the series of ISO international paper sizes slightly larger than the A series allowing the printer extra space to bleed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Ken was mowing the lawn that afternoon . |
| 9 | Building the Lifeboat illuminated car in 1926 , demanded some knowledge of boat-building , as seen here . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Eliot , who lent the circle considerable prestige , found himself in congenial assorted , and in some cases strange , company . |
| 12 | We passed the Porthreath disused aerodrome . |
| 13 | The secretary did as instructed and passed the test first time . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 ] . |
| 16 | As he passed the bank next door he noticed that it too had a side passage , but this one was decked out with tiles and had painted walls . |
| 17 | To visualize the positions of all efferent neurons that exit via the vii/viii nerve , we therefore applied the retrograde axonal tracer DiI to the exit point in r4 . |
| 18 | The southern Italian peasant , he said , acts as if following this rule : ‘ Maximise the material short-run advantage of the nuclear family ; assume that all others will do likewise . |
| 19 | They will not reveal any plans to demolish the house next door and erect a block of flats in its place . |
| 20 | The owner of ‘ The Hollybush ’ at Elstree proposed to infill an original coach arch in the pub 's facade and to demolish the timber framed side walls of the passageway behind in order to form a larger and open interior , even though it was this feature that distinguished the building as an historic inn . |
| 21 | It is n't fair , and it ought to go The legislation governing taxation of capital gains is full of anomalies and should be repealed |
| 22 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |
| 23 | Clockwise from left : Surfers Against Sewage members at the Porthleven Harbour demo ; Rob Small rides the winter Cornish surf ; holy tampons in the water ! |
| 24 | Those who attend will be able to claim the postgraduate educational allowance , and the FHSA hopes that the turn out will be good . |
| 25 | Unfortunately it is then suggested that you repeat the calibration each time you use the unit . |
| 26 | The firm that made the Walkman personal stereo said yesterday the ‘ Visortron ’ , has two liquid crystal screens and headphones . |
| 27 | I made the mistake this morning of trying to squeeze in er before I came here to just cl try and clear another task . |
| 28 | A coachload of supporters made the 700-mile round trip to South Devon and they had a perfect view of the defence giving away two first half goals and Mitch Cook missing a penalty in the second . |
| 29 | Sarajevo Child Lifeline is connected with Brit-Pol , an organisation which made the news last year , when they organised a trip for a group of volunteers from Berkley in Gloucestershire , which failed to collect a coach load of orphans they had planned to bring back from Bosnia . |
| 30 | The pilot whale — a small cetacean , closer to a dolphin than a whale — made the news last month following publicity by the Environmental Investigation Agency [ EIA ] . |