Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 32 | Another runner says its the worst run of his life |
| 33 | The company 's chairman says its the only consignment they 've ever handled |
| 34 | Leon did n't have time over the next hour to wonder what the energetic , highly competent and reliable Wellington had been doing to make him sweat . |
| 35 | ‘ The lean-line droopiness of Michael Crawford and Oliver Reed 's big-drum bravado make them the best double act since Laurel and Hardy , ’ wrote Alexander Walker in the London Evening Standard . |
| 36 | At Cabinet on the Wednesday morning the Chancellor reported what the Foreign Secretary ( still confined to his house ) proposed to say . |
| 37 | Why not let the private sector provide what the public sector can not or will not ? |
| 38 | When the judge told him the only sentence he could pass was that of life imprisonment , Meehan said loudly and clearly , ‘ I want to say this , sir . |
| 39 | The council told us the only way we could get a home was if we were living together . |
| 40 | The Sports Council says it the best means of acquiring all-round fitness . |
| 41 | When he was at school another boy told him the Chinese see a rabbit in the moon . |
| 42 | After seven months in business , 69 Diving are now expanding to enlarge their range to cover everything the individual diver or club could require . |
| 43 | ‘ That lady tamed him the first time he set eyes on her . |
| 44 | His work affects me the same way — which is why I bought that painting a few years ago . |
| 45 | The first flowering plant I saw was a familiar one — the purple mountain saxifrage , Saxafraga oppositifolia to give it the scientific name . |
| 46 | Now that you are completing the preliminary studies and will shortly be embarking on the more complicated part of the syllabus , I feel that , at this stage , it would be of benefit to give you the following lessons in an endeavour to press home to you the importance and value of your continued perseverance . |
| 47 | Because they are required by law to give you the best investment advice , and unless they find out your personal details they ca n't do that . |
| 48 | Fans of volleyball reckon its the fastest … hardest court game of all … this week two of the world 's top teams Latvia and Lithuania have come to town to take on the might of England and the pick of the nation 's universities … on tuesday … wednesday … and thursday they 'll be battling it out in the gym at Iffley Road in Oxford and then on Friday they they head for the finals at the american airbase at Upper Heyford |
| 49 | It is a matter of regret , indeed something of a disgrace , that the spending plans have been announced today in the House when there is still no Scottish Select Committee to scrutinise what the Scottish Office is doing . |
| 50 | daft anyway and nine times out of ten you 've got to look at him and speak to him and that because he ca n't understand and er bloke gave him the verbal . |
| 51 | ‘ I do n't usually let a bloke kiss me the first time , ’ she said . |
| 52 | The thought of the delicious lunch gave me the extra boost I needed to reach the summit . |
| 53 | No give but his mark on his last test gave him the final average of fourteen marks for X plus two tests . |
| 54 | Saturday 's quintet gave him the remarkable tally of 15 wins from the 35 races run on the Flat in Ireland in 1992 . |
| 55 | Viva gives you the basic things too . |
| 56 | If , they say , projects are not found acceptable purely on the basis of the tangible benefits , then it may be useful to turn around the investment question to ask what the present value of the benefits must be to justify the investment . |
| 57 | I 've got to take a second to tell you the whole so-called Iran scandal , I think hard to think of as a scandal . |
| 58 | Health Home Cooking shows you the new way to serve food that 's light , tempting and satisfyingly nourishing . |
| 59 | Its flattened face and its long , soft fur give it the rounded appearance of a ‘ super-baby ’ , appealing to many humans . |
| 60 | At an ARC symposium last week , convened to mark the ARC 's decision to rename itself the Agricultural and Food Research Council , delegates called for action to save the British malting industry which is hit by falling demand for Scotch whisky . |