Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strategy effectively neutralised what the Conservatives had hoped would be a vote-winner with an electorate wary about an upsurge in union power under Labour if it could be made an issue . |
| 2 | The king had himself portrayed on the last coinage of his reign , issued c. 1485 , wearing the closed crown of the emperor , at much the same time as Henry VII introduced the style into England ; but James went one better by having himself shown in a realistic three-quarters face portrait , thereby producing what the numismatist Ian Stewart has described as ‘ probably the earliest Renaissance coin portrait outside Italy ’ . |
| 3 | HAVING finished second to France , and thereby won what the footballers used to call the Home International championship , Scotland can hardly be grudged the eight players they have in the British Isles task force for the invasion of New Zealand this summer under captain Gavin Hastings . |
| 4 | Somebody had apparently given her the matchbook and she had been carrying it around with her ever since . ’ |
| 5 | That 's correct Chairman I think erm , we will be looking obviously to see what the prospects were within er the urban area and er sites do and surprisingly do continue to arrive and come up and we some other uses , erm they would make some contribution obviously erm , the other options would as you say be to look beyond beyond the greenbelt at the opportunities that are available there . |
| 6 | ‘ If you had only given us the Law : Dayenu ! … |
| 7 | Give me the leave to make the best of my fortune and only pardon me the abuse of your house . |
| 8 | On the rare occasions when the cooling towers are for maintenance , the staff wait eagerly to see what the pond reveals . |
| 9 | ‘ The client and I work together to see what the problem was in the past and how it affects the present . ’ |
| 10 | It only got us the £15 at The Marquee for doing a show for Radio London , the old pirate radio station . |
| 11 | ‘ I only realised what the problem was when I went to Kenya straight after Twin Cities . |
| 12 | Although Edward apparently promised him the captaincy of Berwick in September 1319 , during the English siege of the town , and grants continued to come his way during 1320 , his allegiance was soon to be severed by the ambitions of Despenser , whose attempts in 1320–1 to enlarge his share of the Gloucester inheritance in south Wales raised the whole march against him . |
| 13 | A host of examples can be cited throughout the period of Stewart rule up to 1542 ; the fate of the mighty earls of Douglas at the hands of James II in the mid fifteenth century , the case , enshrined in ballad , of the over-confident border reiver Johnnie Armstrong , who suddenly found himself the victim of the utter ruthlessness of James V , tell the same story about how royal power was exercised in Scotland . |
| 14 | He is well liked and sticks to his brief come what may — a tactic that has rightly earned him the nickname of the ’ Bardic steamroller ’ . |
| 15 | The result of all this is that because of the divergence of Belfast English from other varieties and the internal divergence within it , we do not know beforehand what is the correct lexical input to any phonological variable , we do not necessarily know what the variants of the variable are , and we may not be at all certain about what precisely might count as a variable . |
| 16 | The beauty of its setting and its predominantly stone buildings , allied with its intellectual traditions , have justly earned it the title of ‘ Athens of the North ’ . |
| 17 | Accordingly , your title needs not only to indicate what the essay will be about , but also the point of view it will adopt concerning whatever it is about . |
| 18 | But a boardroom vote of six to one in favour was not enough to secure him the position . |
| 19 | But Sam can apparently do what the hell he likes , with as many women as he pleases ! ’ |
| 20 | Yes , the continuous procedure only allows you the freedom to make changes if you need to . |
| 21 | If you want our marriage to have any chance of success you 'd better give her the sack first thing on Monday morning ! ’ |
| 22 | See you 've got your purse in your bag you better give me the money |
| 23 | ( Mutengene is a harder word than Sasse so I had better give you the pronunciation : Moo-teng-genay . ) |
| 24 | Many people think you can only do what the punchcard tells you to do but , being me , I always try to get as much as I can from them — even with a lace card I 'll try knitting it in different ways . |
| 25 | Local authorities can only do what the law explicitly allows ; all council powers come from Acts of Parliament . |
| 26 | But when he sent his ambassador to see if she were indeed as beautiful as men told , the Venetians would only show him the princess at nightfall , in an unlighted room . |
| 27 | He erm , he left school , he only told them the day before . |
| 28 | Also it would be very wasteful of pump power and , depending where the transfer pipe entered the second filter/filter chamber , would not necessarily give you the oxygenation you wish for . |
| 29 | " You had better show me the sites , " Matthew said , " and I 'll see what I can suggest . " |
| 30 | But as he had , I could only give him the answer he needed , without knowing for sure whether it was true or not . |