Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modigliani declined as politely but suggested to Lunia that she should come to his studio and pose for him the following day . |
| 2 | Their retail branches are a fixed cost , so the more business they put through them the better . |
| 3 | It literally , it literally means produce the body only you ca n't simply , well the difference between a constitutional system and er an arbitrary government is that in arbitrary governments people get arrested and disappear , locked up , throw away the key and worry about it the next generation or after the next er military coup or whatever but in a constitutional government there have to be procedures and one of the safeguards of individual liberty is that if you 're ever arrested and detained by law enforcement agencies you have to be produced before a court within a specified period and charged with something . |
| 4 | The more I put into it the worse it goes . |
| 5 | When the pope wrote to Anselm that ‘ we behold in you the venerable persona of St Augustine the Apostle of the English ’ this was more than a complimentary politeness . |
| 6 | When I walk on it the whole thing starts to move and I am soon covered in the grey dust I am stirring up ; it fills my nostrils and triggers a memory that links the smell with rock climbing . |
| 7 | You listen to it the first time you do n't like it and then after that then |
| 8 | and then listen to it the second time and you go , ah ! |
| 9 | It is only when we put to it the rude experimental question " where are you ? " that it is forced to make the sharp choice between those two possibilities . |
| 10 | Reveal to me the great secret . |
| 11 | That God will give me a clear vision for the future and reveal to me the next step after DTS . |
| 12 | They reveal to us the astonishing cultural achievements and spirit of our ancestors ; they also document the power struggles , intrigues and invasions that have shaped English history . |
| 13 | Before they left I could not forbear to draw Gillian closer and impart to her the glittering counsel that wearing 501s with trainers was frankly un désastre and that I was amazed she had walked the streets to my apartment in broad daylight and escaped pillory . |
| 14 | It was to hound and hasten Leonard 's waking thoughts , eliminate any residual interest he may have possessed in mere intellectual commitment , and open to him the stark reality of life downtown . |
| 15 | We believe that the right way to deal with that offence is to build on the offence under the Theft Act 1968 — the taking and driving away — and add to it the aggravated offence covered in clause 1 . |
| 16 | ‘ No , look at it the other way . |
| 17 | Look at it the other way … at least we ARE beating the lower teams something a lot of ‘ mid-table ’ sides fing difficult ( as do some top of the table sides at times — remember Scum vs West Ham : ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) . |
| 18 | The new recruits to Labour did not , however , bring with them the institutional structures of Nonconformity which played so important a part in both Liberal and peace politics before 1914 . |
| 19 | I mean I 've never met Mrs. Thatcher , the only thing I know about her the only facts I have about her I 've got through the press . |
| 20 | And we look forward to seeing some more publicity , between us we have fingers in many pies , and the more we know about it the more chance we have to spread the word around . |
| 21 | Oh yeah , I , but I did n't realize you know with him the old man , the toughy , yeah |
| 22 | copy to you the first time |
| 23 | He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire . |
| 24 | So we commit to you the divided land of Yugoslavia , the territories occupied by Israel and the troubled province of Northern Ireland . |
| 25 | Some people prefer not to talk or to think about their tinnitus as they find that the more they concentrate on it the worse it becomes . |
| 26 | Chiang happens to have under her pillow a large red flag , and the five women embroider on it the five stars of the republic , meanwhile singing a song of praise . |
| 27 | Night fishing can be enjoyable in its own right , even without the added attraction of fishing at the most likely times for fish to feed , but only if you go about it the right way . |
| 28 | But squatting itself is not illegal if you go about it the right way . |
| 29 | If our young girls are to learn the profession , let them serve a seven years apprenticeship and when they have completed it , I ask for them the same wages as are paid for journeymen … |
| 30 | It 's hopelessly confusing to a child if you laugh at her behaviour one day , but shout at her the next for the same trick . |