Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the big [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much for the big money . |
| 2 | This is followed by frenzied activity on the part of the band in setting up some sort of show , usually in London with all the expense that that entails , only for the big day to arrive to find that A&R have sent a tea boy ( resplendent in his raincoat ) and not the ‘ man ’ . |
| 3 | They 'll be putting on the style with new suits especially for the big day . |
| 4 | ‘ I was happy enough with The Big Wheel apart from the fact that as a nine piece the bloody band nearly bankrupted me ! |
| 5 | Benny stood patiently in the big bathroom while the back of her neck was washed . |
| 6 | A small fountain pattered gently in the big reception hall . |
| 7 | The idea of the witnesses keeps alive the detective story element in my work , he wrote , and especially in the big glass . |
| 8 | ‘ The rich Miss Havisham who lives all alone in the big house in town ? ’ asked Joe . |
| 9 | All alone in the big city … there are 380 reported assaults a year on the Tube , and 16,000 other crimes Saturday , 12.10 pm , Piccadilly Circus . |
| 10 | Alone in the big drawing-room where Annette 's choice of bright fabrics had fought hardest , albeit still without winning against her dead in-laws ' passion for darkpanelled gloom Maxim went straight to the telephone . |
| 11 | ‘ A few years ago this sort of equipment was found only in the big teaching centres but now it is the sort of equipment that is a basic requirement of a district general hospital , ’ he said . |
| 12 | The night was wild and stormy , and we were all sitting together in the big kitchen . |
| 13 | It is a recurring phenomenon and perhaps when you miss that particular notch you have to adopt original even eccentric strategies to bring the times and yourself together in the big bang of true fame and real success . |
| 14 | They were together in the big cupboard behind the staff room , refilling the sugar bowls . |
| 15 | The time has come to bring the two modules together in the big program called EVOLUTION . |
| 16 | As soon as they heard the angelus ring they gathered from all over the big house to the supper table . |
| 17 | ‘ Not long to the big day now , Mother , ’ he said . |
| 18 | He bounced off towards Doone , who was writing in his notebook , and they were walking together to the big boatshed as I drove away . |
| 19 | One might think that this unpredictability would n't matter too much if it occurred only at the big bang ; after all , that was ten or twenty billion years ago . |
| 20 | There might also be quite a number of very much smaller black holes scattered around the universe , formed not by the collapse of stars but by the collapse of highly compressed regions in the hot , dense medium that is believed to have existed shortly after the big bang in which the universe originated . |
| 21 | But science could not explain why it was as it was just after the big bang . |
| 22 | Looking beyond these , and hence further back in time , ISO may ‘ see ’ the birth of galaxies soon after the big bang , something ground-based infrared astronomers have sought years . |
| 23 | Microwave background detectors overlap in wavelength with millimetre waves and radio , but are designed specifically to look at the all-sky background emitted by gas soon after the big bang . |
| 24 | A point just below the big toe . |
| 25 | The idea can also be used to explain the fact that the galaxies are all receding from each other because , just like the Big Bang , the ‘ Little Bangs ’ create not space ( and trivia like matter and energy but spacetime . |
| 26 | They got a new one , they had another , then they had another idea then , they came round and had erm , had , turned round and said , right they done away with part of the wire and they got another big wheel so you can go right over the top next time , they done away with the big hook , so you could shackle your , your chain on to the wire , then you could go right over the top and then they get the old short chains like that . |
| 27 | Heroine trapped in the treasure cave , time ticking away until the Big Bang ; can the hero reach her in time ? |
| 28 | So people who were generally in the big box knew about it ? |
| 29 | The problem started in 1988 just before the big property slump . |
| 30 | As Hollywood kept on discovering at its own expense — and this was a relatively costly movie compared with Nicholson 's previous works — good and successful literature does not necessary transfer easily to the big screen . |