Example sentences of "big [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were a delight for the charterers in the Bahamian lagoons , but in an Atlantic storm such wide windows could be our death warrants for if Wavebreaker fell off a big wave the glass could be driven out of the windows and the boat be filling with water in seconds , and so I cut and shaped sheet steel shutters that could be bolted over the boat 's glass at the first sign of bad weather . |
| 2 | In the early Liverpool days of Big Flame the comrades had been obsessed with the potential of Ford workers as leaders of the British revolution , and had put great effort into organizing and recruiting at the local Halewood plant . |
| 3 | That big laugh The lanky |
| 4 | A quick sideways prod of the transfer gear-lever was all that I needed to give the big machine the traction of a funicular railway , as if an invisible cable winch was hauling me up . |
| 5 | Since the Big Bang the disappearance of fixed commissions has removed the necessity for offering such compensation . |
| 6 | Although the number of marketmakers has not substantially changed in the 3 years since the Big Bang the membership has . |
| 7 | Then there was Big Business the bull , and Our Graceless , a three-legged cow with a wooden leg . |
| 8 | Immediately after this big moment the earth is convulsed with horror we have Eve 's first speech , presumably after the fall the first speech in a state of sin , and this is it ‘ Oh sovereign virtuous , precious of all trees in Paradise , of operation blest to sapinense hitherto obscured in famed and thy fair fruit let hang as to not end created , but henceforth my early care not without song each morning and dew/due pray shall tend thee and the fertile burden ease of thy full branches offered free to all . |
| 9 | Norwegian television had followed the big race the previous year and about 100 kilometres from its end had stopped the leader to interview him . |
| 10 | On the eve of the big race the Welsh jockey was predicting further success for Party Politics — and not just in this year 's race , but in 1994 as well . |
| 11 | Er well only two er and Skerrymor but I was er three year because it was called a rock station or a relieving station was a big island the island of Rhona seven miles long when the sea was n't near the tower at all but er and Skerrymor the sea was battering round the towers all the time . |
| 12 | The creatures of Riverbank did not see the big dog the next day . |
| 13 | It 's a big dog the Newfoundland . |
| 14 | did a big wash the other day so they 're all ready wo wo n't be long and the clothes she 's wearing now are nought to three months . |
| 15 | But , in a big , big way the fireman knew it was all right . |
| 16 | The first big task the South Ronaldsay Parents ' Action Committee set themselves was to circulate a petition round all the Orkney Islands . |
| 17 | Oh there 's a big slide The Gammels . |
| 18 | next stop the big time the premier league |
| 19 | Election Focus:A Hung Parliament : Paddy 's Big Step The Liberal Democrats ' well-laid plans for power-sharing may be about to bear fruit . |
| 20 | It is difficult to imagine , now that the Red Planet is knee-deep in silicite replicas and sentimental re-creations of the ‘ Ancients ’ owing more to fancy than to archaeology , but at the time of the Big Step the only vestiges of that once proud race of architects and engineers were the great canals . |
| 21 | The 760MP was designed on its big brother the 960MP . |