Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a big [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Rome , central areas such as the Piazza di Spagna , Via Condotti and Via Veneto are particularly well decorated , while in Piazza San Pietro [ St. Peter 's Square ] crowds flock to see a big Christmas tree — a gift from Austria — together with a Nativity scene . |
| 2 | The Hartlepool Voluntary Development Agency has received a big cash boost from Cleveland County Council . |
| 3 | We 're alright you know , they only way you 'll get the business , he 's like that , he talks like that , is if you can you know offer a big price saving . |
| 4 | SIR Richard Attenborough plans to direct a big screen version of the West End hit Shadowlands . |
| 5 | ‘ They 've said they 're going to do a big media blitz for us at the end of this week . ’ |
| 6 | I was n't going to rush around buying horribly expensive things like smoke salmon that I could n't afford , I was going to do a big family feast and I was going to get in a few games like the monopoly or lotto or you know , I just , I have n't worked it out but I thought oh what fun |
| 7 | She decided to organise a big fund raising effort for the anaesthetic unit at the Memorial . |
| 8 | Stromness must have had a big temperance movement then . |
| 9 | Pity you were n't a captain , then you 'd have got a bigger disability pension . ’ |
| 10 | Winning entente floral would have meant a big tourism boost for cheltenham — so what went wrong ? |
| 11 | Well first of all I 'd go down Street and up Street West and up to the top of Street and there was some puddling furnaces , the new side iron works and I 'd watch those men they 'd produce wrought iron and during the process the metal boils up and I 'd have to get a big rubbling bar and rubble they 'd call rubble into a ball , there 's a little wagon put underneath the put under the wagon and off he goes to the steam hammer , now I used to be fascinated with this and Saturday after Saturday I used to go up there and watch one of the heats and as soon as they 'd finished doing they used to go into the Forge and Hammer for a drink , I mean it was such hard work so they 'd do a heat go up the Forge and Iron and come back and then do another heat when I 'd |
| 12 | ‘ We'se goin' to have a big Carol Service in the church on Christmas Eve . |
| 13 | I did n't really believe it at first , er , and then I received couple or more phone calls from er various people in the industry who er , who were aware of it and started to congratulate me , and then I realised that it was the truth , that er I really did have a big hit record once again with Blue Velvet . |
| 14 | Well , I think the idea is , that certainly large hotels could afford to pay a bigger collective bill than they 're paying at the moment . |
| 15 | Pam Large from Banbury in Oxfordshire wrote to Kevin to say that her husband was trying to secure a big business contract with a new company for his kitchen and bathroom furniture business . |
| 16 | He had owned a big department store that had burned down , and he had then hanged himself . |
| 17 | I 've got a big back yard here . |
| 18 | ‘ Four days ’ time , and I 've got a big charity function to attend the night I get back . |
| 19 | So if you 've got a big patient list fifteen thousand we do a three to one ratio because of course there 're there 're number |
| 20 | I 've got l , well they 've got loads , I 've got a big wallet folder full of all the various leaflets . |
| 21 | Actually , I mean , we 've got a big costume collection , I mean it 's sort of , you 're talking thousands of garments altogether . |
| 22 | They had had a big Sunday lunch , with Mum and Dad being there . |
| 23 | ( Single woman living with her unmarried brother and their very frail elderly mother ) I do think that disabled people , unless they 've had a big cash payment through an accident [ compensation ] … they do n't get enough to live on … |
| 24 | Darlington Council 's housing committee agreed to make a big cash commitment to establishing the drop-in advice centre in Hammond Drive , on Skerne Park . |
| 25 | Just me ? today because in because it was in your place I came back from she 's got a big scratch book mum and she glued it on and came that close to me it 's about there and he threw it at me and there . |
| 26 | He 's got a big keeper net there . |
| 27 | Yes , cos he 's got one of those erm , oh dear what 's it called , it 's got a big thing tube and stuff and it 's got one of those erm bits round the outside it goes on what do you call those er , and you , you squeeze it do n't you |
| 28 | I get help from Dick Shurman , the co-producer ; he 's got a big record collection . |
| 29 | He 's been made up this morning , he 's had a big tax rebate , fifteen hundred quid ! |
| 30 | Now , Miller 's adopted daughter Jonnie Dee and her husband Barry Soper , are planning to build a Big Band Museum in Clarinda , Iowa , where Miller was born in 1904 . |