Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 91 | Supremely , however , this generous desire to show us the best in an author is manifested in his long chapter about Spenser , and there he marks himself out not as a kindly eccentric , but as a pioneer of modern taste . |
| 92 | Perhaps his most inspired piece is the saga of Cosmo , the fairly accurate knife thrower , whose failure to see the point makes him the sharpest act in town . |
| 93 | What makes it , what makes them improve so , the team makes it the same does n't it ? |
| 94 | So it 's worth reiterating , making sure each member of the team knows who the senior people are and the branches they 're s they 're operating . |
| 95 | But the majority of policemen and women we encountered were not like this and did not engage in little acts of subterfuge to limit what the field-worker saw or heard because either they had nothing to hide or , more rarely , they were not concerned to conceal it . |
| 96 | Yeah , tell your Mum to give me the twelve pence , er , er the two P cos erm it was n't , it was n't worth last night . |
| 97 | British Rail tell us the eighteen twenty four , Manchester to Paddington train — that 's the train that 's due in at Oxford at eighteen twenty four- is fifteen minutes late this evening , and all trains from Paddington to Oxford are about twenty minutes late . |
| 98 | ‘ You went off before I had a chance to thank you the other day … ’ |
| 99 | If he is n't , it does n't matter what he knows and he can go over my head any day he likes and make the Assistant Commissioner read him the whole report if he wants to . |
| 100 | Atlantic City 's vast beach and boardwalk made it the American seaside resort of the nineteenth century . |
| 101 | He had heard nothing more of the plane until a newspaper phoned him the following day , Sunday afternoon . |
| 102 | Foreign Agriculture is full of evidence to suggest what the cynical reader must have already suspected , and what the open minded reader may well be beginning to suspect . |
| 103 | SERVANT : My lady , a gentleman calling himself the noble Spaniard waits to see you . |
| 104 | It 's probably only that old quack Hardacre feeding him the wrong antibiotics — Agnes shared George 's view of Sir Frank ‘ — but if each course takes five days before they decide it is n't working , it can run on . |
| 105 | If you 're the first correct entry out of the hat we 'll be straight on the phone to give you the good news and arrange the presentation . |
| 106 | On May 7th farmers , politicians and ex-generals who oppose majority rule met in Pretoria to launch a new alliance calling itself the Afrikaner Volksfront , or Afrikaner People 's Front . |
| 107 | Can the use of psychological tests for personnel selection find you the right person for the job ? of The Psychological Corporation Ltd looks at the history of ability and personality tests and compares their predictive validity and cost effectiveness with more traditional types of assessment . |
| 108 | Er someone tells him that , a policeman tells him the best way to look at it is if you were locked out your house |
| 109 | BR 's journey planner tells you the quickest way from A to B. Shame it ca n't tell you which trains will run on time … |
| 110 | That night Anthony 's wife sent me the following balm from Chequers : |
| 111 | His accuracy and stinginess with runs made him almost without equal as a one-day bowler , for he could both contain and attack at the same time since the bounce he got from his great height and the control he had over the ball gave him the extra penetration that brought wickets . |
| 112 | The Barclays Managed Rate Facility gives you the best of both worlds : it offers much of the flexibility of an overdraft both with an interest rate comparable to Money Market rates . |
| 113 | BORIS BECKER last night gave himself the perfect 25th birthday present , demolishing Jim Courier to become ATP world champion and end a disappointing year in triumph . |
| 114 | That 's west unless we 're off course , in which case it 's night ; the King gave me the same as you , the King gave you the same as me : the King never gave me the letter , the King gave you the letter , we do n't know what 's in the letter ; we take Hamlet to the English King , it depending on when we get there who he is , and we hand over the letter , which may or may not have something in it to keep us going , and if not , we are finished and at a loose end , if they have loose ends . |
| 115 | That 's west unless we 're off course , in which case it 's night ; the King gave me the same as you , the King gave you the same as me : the King never gave me the letter , the King gave you the letter , we do n't know what 's in the letter ; we take Hamlet to the English King , it depending on when we get there who he is , and we hand over the letter , which may or may not have something in it to keep us going , and if not , we are finished and at a loose end , if they have loose ends . |
| 116 | He loved his ‘ Jocks ’ without a trace of condescension , and when he took over the regiment as lieutenant-colonel in North Africa and Italy , his double-barrelled beer name earned him the affectionate sobriquet of ‘ Colonel Screwtop ’ . |
| 117 | Also including Elizabeth Walker 's modern parka story ( p 190 ) and Anna Cockburn 's selection of the most beautiful casual whites ( p 184 ) , Fashion Bazaar brings you the complete fashion picture . |
| 118 | But a snooker ball is n't twice as big , you know when a snooker ball hits something the other ball goes away quicker than the ball that 's hit it yeah ? |
| 119 | On one side is the spineless Bishop Barrantes , representing the worst aspects of the Church 's mugwumpery and corruption ; on the other is Father Maby , confidant of Elena and friend to the poor and displaced in his jungle retreat ; his work is less glamorous than the revolutionary 's , but his wisdom and gentleness make him the unexpected hero of the novel . |
| 120 | Kenneth Horne 's rich , fruity voice and warm patrician manner made him the ideal link man and that , coupled with a mischievous sense of humour , ensured that any programme in which he was involved was the better for his presence . |