Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] a big [noun sg] [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 | SIR Richard Attenborough plans to direct a big screen version of the West End hit Shadowlands . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | She decided to organise a big fund raising effort for the anaesthetic unit at the Memorial . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | ‘ We'se goin' to have a big Carol Service in the church on Christmas Eve . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |