Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , three years later , a licence was sought by the Getty Museum for its export , SAVE pressed the local authority to serve an enforcement notice requiring the return of the statue to its plinth in the grade I listed building from which it had been removed . |
| 2 | But that 's been the pattern of our lives , we often get offered the same part and I can honestly say there 's been no professional jealousy or rivalry at all . |
| 3 | One of the most rewarding things about being a lawyer in local government [ and a striking contract with private practice ] is that you rarely get asked the same question twice and usually the problems require imaginative legal thinking . |
| 4 | But then in seventy nine we had a hit at home with Bunch of Time and that as far as we were concerned was the end of the road you know to be successful in Ireland and then late eighty one , early eighty two you know they started playing Bunch of Time over here and it became a top twenty hit for us and that you know changed the whole thing round about and got us from say the pubs in Ireland into the concert circuit in England which we 've been doing ever since . |
| 5 | so that I could actually enjoy it more this time because it 's in , so much of a blur when you get married the first time that you 're caught up with it and you do n't really see what happens , I would like to get married all over again . |
| 6 | On Friday , Sept 13 , Seb Grieve made the first ascent of the outstanding rib right of Dangerous Crocodile Snoggin at Ramshaw . |
| 7 | But consider now a misgiving voiced by Linda Woodbridge and shared by many others : ‘ To me the one unsatisfying feature of the otherwise stimulating transvestite movement is that it had to be transvestite : Renaissance women so tar accepted the masculine rules of the game that they felt they had to look masculine to be ‘ free'' ’ ( Women and the English Renaissance , 145 ) . |
| 8 | Pathologist Dr James Grieve told the fatal accident inquiry in Aberdeen the dead men only suffered superficial injuries in what was a relatively soft landing . |
| 9 | Please find enclosed the following invoices for items supplied and work done in connection with Nether Wyresdale 's entry in this year 's competition . |
| 10 | Please find enclosed the formal application and indemnity forms — both of which are signed by me . |
| 11 | Please find enclosed the latest issue of Leads , the Council 's quarterly newsletter on sports sponsorship in Scotland . |
| 12 | Sid 's petrolsplashing around the walls of the trench had , I believe encouraged the little bastards , they seemed to like the smell of petrol . |
| 13 | Today timed to the minute a policeman wearing similar clothes posed as the motorcyclist detectives believe fired the five shots from close range in a remote country lane in Rushton in Northamptonshire . |
| 14 | Its main provision was that if either party were engaged in war with one other country in East Asia the other party would remain uninvolved , but should two enemies become involved the other party to the alliance would join forces . |
| 15 | The ambivalences generated for many white youth by the attractions of Afro-Caribbean , Afro-American and African musical forms , and their admirations for some aggressive forms of Afro-Caribbean masculinity , have resulted in alliances in particular schools and neighbourhoods between white and Afro Caribbean youth against Asian youth , while in some schools where black white conflicts remain submerged the dominant form of racist insult occurs between different ethnic minority groups , for instance Asian and Afro-Caribbean or Cypriot and Vietnamese ( Cohen , 1987 ) . |
| 16 | We 've consulted the leading names in the motor industry and racked our own brains to come up with the definitive answer to one of the ultimate pub arguments . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've given the best years of my life , ’ he faltered , and was unable to say more . |
| 18 | Only afterwards is it plain that , for the most part , they 've given the same answers they 've supplied to the press for years . |
| 19 | I have n't given her this last year ( since I left home ) one half of the consideration I 've given the beastly creature upstairs just this last week . |
| 20 | I 've received the second half of BB 's script and have sent a copy on to her in Bath . |
| 21 | ‘ I plan the holidays and what the others do n't know is that , in the course of planning , I 've developed the precise art of finding somewhere to stay where , when you open your bedroom window , in front of you is the most splendid bit of Romanesque architecture . |
| 22 | Well they know that , and if there 's a machine that 'll do the job , and if , when they 've pressed the right buttons they can look at the answer and say ‘ Yes , three point four 's about right ’ and so on , then that 's good enough for me . |
| 23 | Once you 've pondered the crucial question of which is the bigger — Mount Everest or Blessed 's supremely affable ego , then the best course of action is simply to let the saltily ribald tidal wave of his enthusiasm for the Big Hill and its history wash over you . |
| 24 | Perhaps they 've heard the economic forecast . |
| 25 | Having said that , I 've heard the French love it , and over there the Mad Axe is selling like , er … mad . |
| 26 | Well you 've heard the senior prosecutor say that she knows nothing , she |
| 27 | Well you 've heard the senior prosecutor say that she knows |
| 28 | I still do n't think we 've heard the full story about that business at the off-licence . ’ |
| 29 | So he 's explained that this is what they 've approached the heavenly Jerusalem |
| 30 | This year , we 've enjoyed the highest ratings in our history . ’ |