Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , he rubs me up the wrong way . |
| 2 | At least , this human being loyally follows me around the place , keeps tabs on me and rings me up the whole time . |
| 3 | Perry leads us up the unlit stairwell , the smell of urine sharp in our nostrils . |
| 4 | He kidnaps her in the hope that she will accept and return his affections and when he ties her up the sexual and emotional metaphors of the title abound . |
| 5 | It 's a great way for producing long banners or waste paper but And if you wan na actually reverse this process alt M takes it back the other way . |
| 6 | Then he asks them why the Irish were allowed to starve then and Africans now . |
| 7 | Your PP tells you where the first five are , always starting with the object This might be as follows : |
| 8 | So it 's normally thought that within the utilitarian tradition , voters are required to vote their interests and then the democratic procedure tells us where the general happiness lies roughly speaking . |
| 9 | ‘ You Americans always go for the corny ones , ’ he says , but he plays it just the same , and he delivers a good strong solo at that . |
| 10 | In the contrasting situation , when there is no convention but only agreement in conviction , everyone follows the same rule but principally because he thinks it independently the best rule to follow . |
| 11 | ‘ I head for the nearest jewellery store , ’ she said lightly , ‘ which gives me all the more incentive to get this door open . ’ |
| 12 | The lifestyles in The Swimming Pool Library do not represent the entirety of the gay scene , but by locating the gay male scene so firmly within the traditional English class structure , Hollinghurst reminds us why the gay scene alone is not enough . |
| 13 | Diffuse X-ray diffraction , by contrast , gives us only the local arrangement about the average atom . |
| 14 | Unless you 've been calling my bluff since day one , you should be able to see off any mere mortal who rubs us up the wrong way . ’ |
| 15 | He was thinking about saying : ‘ If you do this , it makes you just the same as him . |
| 16 | Exports are one way for America to soften the impact of sluggish demand at home ; the undervalued dollar makes it all the easier , in effect , to import some vitality from Germany and Japan . |
| 17 | A little contempt for military life makes it all the easier … |
| 18 | It makes it all the sweeter when they fall . |
| 19 | This pulsar is a compact neutron star , which rotates 642 times every second , and the detection makes it only the third pulsar known to emit light . |