Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a big [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we want to paint a big choral canvas , words can be repeated without any fear of being repetitious , or we can use whole sentences or sections several times over . |
| 2 | Its strongest American card is its 44% stake in Amdahl Corp , and while IBM appears to be playing into Amdahl 's hands in the short term , Amdahl knows it has to build a big new business almost from scratch out of Unix and its Huron applications development and delivery environment if it is to grow much beyond its present $2,500m or so annual business . |
| 3 | ‘ He 'd obviously signed the document , agreed to receive a big fat pension — and keep his mouth shut . |
| 4 | Why stab Manchester in the back for helping to create a bigger northern network of clubs , raves and fashion outlets ? |
| 5 | And she 'd got a big black hat on , and a big black cloak , and all er crosses down here , and she 's got a boot on her arm all laced up , and nobody 'd know whether she were a man or a woman . |
| 6 | If you 'd had a big fat bottom I might have guessed . |
| 7 | ‘ We both agree he has a limited potential , but he could be used to detonate a big political explosion . |
| 8 | The thousands of dollars fee earned by the penguins will now be used to build a big new pool and enclosure . |
| 9 | He said , " You 've really got to make a big speaking sound . " |
| 10 | Noreen has always wanted to drive a big American truck . |
| 11 | It was a real nice place two years ago ; nothing but luxury houses for the super-rich , but then the snakes bought it and they 've painted a big yellow cross on their runway . |
| 12 | It might be great to have something in Torquay if you 're hoping to draw visitors from the southwest , but not if you 're trying to pull a big public audience from Tyneside . |
| 13 | He had built a big new house in the valley , beside the best clay for making good hard bricks . |
| 14 | when you 've got a big articulated lorry , |
| 15 | We 've got a big industrial park at one end and the highways department at the other end of the village so we 're always going to get traffic |
| 16 | In Witney we 've got a big industrial estate and on the top of a forty foot pole there is a siren that was put up four years ago . |
| 17 | Well not really we 've got one , and we 've got a big multi- storey car park . |
| 18 | I 've got a big poorly boy . |
| 19 | At the lunchtime , they 've got a big social club , erm , and all main hospital fund raising coffee mornings and events will be able to sell the book there . |
| 20 | I 've got a big thick sweatshirt on and underneath I 've got a polo neck jumper on an'all and foolishly put a coat on |
| 21 | You 've got a big thick piece of wire across there , join it up . |
| 22 | I mean we 've got , four , four , four cars in our house , the gran lives in the granny annexe inside , god knows how the fucking hell she got a parking space , somehow she did , mum 's got her 's in there , my old mans parked his opposite , we 've got a big double drive as well , my old man parks his on the right and I park mine on the fucking left , its like a parking lot out there in the mornings , and if when he says |
| 23 | At school he had been an ace rugby player and had become a big burly man . |
| 24 | These marooned populations had to make a big evolutionary adjustment . |
| 25 | Celebrities have given a big welcome back to a theatre that 's reopened after a two hundred thousand pound pound refit . |
| 26 | And the shower has n't got a curtain it 's got a big black door . |
| 27 | It 's got hair , eyes , nose and mouth and it 's got a big yellow sun , has n't it , shining over and it 's the bestest picture you 've ever seen since you last went to the art gallery . |
| 28 | Your Mum 's got a big fucking tattoo of a snake on her fanny . |
| 29 | THE US secretary of state , Warren Christopher , yesterday called Russia 's move to democracy and free markets the ‘ greatest strategic challenge of our time ’ and said the United States could help underwrite a bigger international aid programme . |