Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 one is that i it may be that the old moral economy worked because the peasants recognized that , in a sense , that was the way they w well they , they could not stand up and criticize the landlord th the , the most they could do was to try and get the landlord to behave in a reasonable way , and that within that there would then be the sub-culture , the counter-culture of , of beginnings of mutual aid and what is happening in is in part that the communists are making them think the old moral economy work , but in part they are picking up on those sub- culture bits because the , the , the whole of mutual aid idea is , is coming from existing peasant cooperations .
2 Jane had shown Patrick how to open the bottle of champagne , and they drank it slowly , neither of them enjoying the sharp fizzy taste , but neither willing to admit it .
3 These defective viruses have usually lost a portion of their genetic material or suffered a single mutation that prevents them completing the full replicative cycle .
4 These brick buildings are on three storeys , the first two being unexceptional Victorian terraced houses arranged round a courtyard , but the floor above them has the characteristic long windows of textile workshops .
5 The main features were well known to most travellers , but Green wanted them to discover the lesser known tarns , valleys and fells of his beloved Lake District .
6 Moreover , ’ he smiled , ‘ I asked the young gallant who was sitting by Benedicta to take care of both ladies .
7 What I asked the right hon. Gentleman — and what he has still not answered — is , would the Government veto a treaty with the word ’ federal ’ in it ?
8 I asked the right hon. Gentleman to appeal to the Roman Catholic Church to excommunicate the terrorists — the evil gang of murderers , and their supporters and helpers .
9 I asked the right hon. and learned Gentleman whether he knew that his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition would go to Luigi 's restaurant and say what he said about phasing .
10 Over the first course I made the usual polite inquiries about Sally 's new job and asked her what she had been up to for the last half-dozen years or so .
11 In the daytimes I made the flat secure against all creatures .
12 I mean the only other thing we could do would be
13 By the logic of research and higher education , I mean the general conceptual relationships that exist between these two sets of activity , and I should like to explore those relationships in the following six theses .
14 I mean the lovely golden light on the the grass very late afternoon light I would suggest and it 's got this lovely warm colour on the grass .
15 I mean the old index-linked certificates , when they came up I put them back into the fourth issue , and then the fifth issue and so on because the bonuses are better .
16 Erm , and then I just thought I 'd finally conclude a bright , cos I think it , it 's like how I see myself at work , erm with showing you where our work comes from erm and basically you 've got all these arrows coming in and er sometimes you do have a sense of feeling quite bombarded with requests for work , but the main , I mean the main formal source of our work is the local government sub committee , which is erm , like Mary was referring to earlier , every department or unit in our in the Council have to formally report and get it 's work through by a Council committee , our committee is the local government sub committee and it formally sets our work programme once a year , and I our priorities , it also comes up with other things it would like us to do by the way , during the course of the year , so erm , that includes Mary as well . .
17 I mean the intelligent New People will always revolt and come across to our side .
18 You think of , I mean the obvious great power , the one superpower that 's left now is the United States compare the United States with let's say Fiji enormous difference in terms of the range of interests it has , erm the things in which in there 's hardly anything in the world takes place without some claim of the United States to have an interest in it .
19 Thus when I favour pay for ‘ childcare ’ I mean the day-to-day domestic care of people who need it ( obviously I would include adults too infirm to care for themselves ) .
20 I liken the recent televised steamrollering of Ms O'Connor 's merchandise to the nightly book-burning sessions by the Nazis in the '30s .
21 I presumed the countless minor mishaps to be part of any climber 's learning process .
22 And , let's be frank , I fear the diminished sexual allure that woman might suffer .
23 I fear the discerning British skier would not be unreservedly impressed : no skiing above 2,000m , bus rides to and from skiing , a motor-was along one of the valleys at the heart of the lift system .
24 ‘ Do you know , ’ I asked a market trader as I met the fine working people of Motherwell over the weekend , ‘ that this country 's public sector borrowing requirement expressed as a percentage of Gross National Product is running at a completely unacceptable level ? ’
25 I met the Venerable Bimal Bhikku in the Friends ' Meeting House in Swindon , England , on a grey afternoon .
26 I made him take me on a bit farther at the risk of him thinking I lacked the right sexual tactics .
27 I got the other two .
28 We went down into the station shelter and I experienced the familiar claustrophobic sensation of waiting for something to happen .
29 I attach the original signed copies of the above for your safe keeping .
30 I bounced the bonny bicephalous back to Rex .
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