Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Sorry to lose you the trip . |
2 | ‘ Does that make him the murderer ? ’ whispered Alice in an aside to Alfred . |
3 | It was not possible to indicate what the premium would be if cover were to be provided automatically , because the BMIF was a separate body and was not prepared to consider this . |
4 | It is never possible to be certain what the situation would have been in the absence of any such policy nor is it possible to know what the outcome of a different policy might have been . |
5 | It would be entertaining to see what the fellow would try to do next . |
6 | But does this make them the future of rock ‘ n ’ roll ? |
7 | This offers us the possibility of separating the picture from the sound and the potential of this in a language classroom is great . |
8 | HAVING TRAVELLED over 150 miles each way to see Nirvana at the London Astoria last Wednesday , I was interested to see what the event would be like regarding ‘ crusties ’ , T-shirt prices and security at the ‘ notorious ’ Astoria . |
9 | HAVING TRAVELLED over 150 miles each way to see Nirvana at the London Astoria last Wednesday , I was interested to see what the event would be like regarding ‘ crusties ’ , T-shirt prices and security at the ‘ notorious ’ Astoria . |
10 | This cost them the lead , and though they recovered well they could n't stop a second Risley boat , crewed by husband and wife team and , slipping through to take the chequered flag after five circuits . |
11 | That is what the governor of that offenders centre had to say , and I should be very interested to know what the Minister of State has done since she read that report in the newspaper . |
12 | Erm as far as his sort of doubts as to , as to what er what the actual State benefits are , I 'm interested to know what the answer is to overco overcome that one unless you actually got a , a leaflet with you know the |
13 | If they are right , this spares them the refusal which would have otherwise shown up in the main survey as reported difficulty in getting credit . |
14 | D. H. You have said that your family moved in and out of illness : did this give you the position to turn breast cancer and person-centred health issues into political photography ? |
15 | Does this give us the clue we need ? |
16 | Does this give us the answer we need ? |
17 | This allows you the choice of fielding characters without their magic items , for example if you are playing without the Warhammer Battle Magic supplement . |
18 | It is easier to state what the movement was against . |
19 | Jupiter which is a huge planet , if you look carefully here this is a this is to scale , this shows you the size of the planet . |
20 | ‘ The beauty and interesting nature of this little bird ’ , Gould wrote , ‘ naturally made me anxious to bring home living examples ; I accordingly captured about twenty fully fledged birds , and kept them alive for some time ; but the difficulties necessarily attendant upon travelling in a new country rendering it impracticable to afford them the attention they required , I regret to say the whole were lost . ’ |
21 | Maybe I was worried that someone else would read my diary , but if so this worry could only have been a slight one : I was much too careful to afford anyone the opportunity to snoop . |
22 | The potential gain if one was ‘ exceptional ’ , however , and qualified for an early release is so powerful that few men are prepared to forego it The result is a shabby , futile process that Probation Officers feel makes subsequent work with inmates more difficult , that exasperates prison officers who see the time and energy in compiling reports as wasted , and infuriates prisoners for whom the probable refusal of parole , with its tiny element of uncertainty , makes prison life even harder to bear . |
23 | The Autocrat , the chauffeur , the bodyguard : this showed them the gulf , the magical distance . |
24 | Another showed her the dark stains down his chest and across the dashboard and windscreen . |
25 | This compares what the missile sees through a light-sensitive sensor in its nose with pictures of the target stored in its memory . |
26 | He indicated that , without specific application to children 's hearings , the nature of the children 's hearings system ‘ leaves [ it ] outside the benefit of this Bill ’ , and he added : ‘ It would be wrong to deny them the benefit of the Bill when , if they had committed serious offences and appeared before the courts , they would have had its protection . ’ |
27 | Then in September , Sue announced that she was leaving the BBC after 20 years to join Granada Television which , she said , was fully prepared to give her the freedom necessary to put together the type of programme she truly wanted to make . |
28 | However , she was prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt . |
29 | I 'm still prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt because he is a decent manager who knows the ropes and who has been there before . |
30 | I 'm , no , I 'm prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt for the moment . |