Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maxine came to see me again the following week and we began the follow-up treatment , along the lines of those which you will find detailed in the ‘ case histories ’ sections of this book . |
| 2 | The board of the vendor company also has a duty to deal fairly between all shareholders of the same class , although it does not need to treat them exactly the same if there are particular reasons for different treatment , as in the case of regulatory or exchange control requirements applying to overseas shareholders . |
| 3 | So learning that a particular symbol on a computer keyboard , situated in a particular room , delivers a banana from a feeder , is really the same kind of mental activity as recognizing the shape of a banana plant in a forest and remembering where to find it again the next day . |
| 4 | I agreed and arranged to pick it up the next morning on the way . |
| 5 | Trouble is , they 'll expect to see you here the next time they come . ’ |
| 6 | Ca n't tell you how long a journey it was back in the fog from Liverpool that day , and then when we were relegated back again to the third division it was on the last match of the season against Charlton , and the heavens opened and a big thunder storm and it just flooded the pitch and the referee just called the match off and they had to play it again the following Friday and Charlton ran out two-one winners and Walsall finished with nine fit men and still that 's the football I suppose . |
| 7 | The oil lamp beside his bed had been extinguished , and when I saw my father glance disapprovingly at the lamp I had brought to guide me up the rickety staircase , I quickly lowered the wick . |
| 8 | I still wanted to see more of the world , and as he was offering to give me double the usual pay , I managed to persuade my wife to let me go . |
| 9 | ‘ Candy , there must be three hundred people in the club tonight — would you care to give me just the faintest inkling who you 're talking about ? ’ |
| 10 | I am ready to give you again the beautiful face of |
| 11 | Mr Field believes he would win easily , and once returned to the Commons would ask the parliamentary party to give him back the Labour whip . |
| 12 | If you happen to know your bride or bridegroom 's tastes you could say , ‘ I would like to read you just the first verse/first two lines/last two lines of one of one of Sharon 's favourite poems about the sea . |
| 13 | The boy stands , arms at sides , absolutely frontal without turn , twist or bend ; were one to bisect him vertically the two halves would be mirror-images , except that the left leg is forward , the right back . |
| 14 | The problem of morality is therefore above all a problem of organization ; we have to reconcile our conflicting impulses with one another , in such a way as to allow them collectively the greatest possible degree of satisfaction . |
| 15 | ‘ Those who have been around for a while and waited on an international chance tend to appreciate it all the more when one arrives , ’ he said . |
| 16 | ‘ All in all , I 'd have to call it possibly the worst morning in my entire athletics career , ’ grimaced Dick . |
| 17 | ‘ Even though Father always manages to rub me up the wrong way . |
| 18 | ‘ Just that I seem to rub you up the wrong way ? |
| 19 | The Palmers have been promised a back door ramp to get Mrs Palmer into the garden in case of fire , but no ramp to get her down the 5 garden steps into the street . |
| 20 | My left arm was dripping with blood , and when I tried to raise it only the top part moved , the rest hung limply by my side . |
| 21 | ‘ I was about to ask you exactly the same question . |
| 22 | ‘ They have to ask her just the same ? ’ |
| 23 | He held on to the machine by the handlebars as he turned off the road and started to push it up the steeper incline of the track . |
| 24 | With this in mind , we 've got a new rating system for PCs on review — Jo Lawton checks out Watford Electronics ' Aries Mini-Tower to show you how the new system works . |
| 25 | There were plenty of other boys to follow him down the good physician 's route to Fitzwilliam Square . |
| 26 | One was milking , and Peggy and I used very often be fetching the wood , we got tractor and trailer into the woods , and the old woodmen used to tell us where the dry wood was we could collect , take it down to the farm , circular saw in the shed , switch the electricity to go on . |