Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [prep] the big " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one of those old-established inns tucked away into the side-streets of London that have somehow avoided being bought over and sanitized by the big chains , an ivy-covered twenty-room place with panelling and bay-windows and a fire blazing in the brick hearth of a reception area furnished in rugs over uneven boards . |
| 2 | Alone in her bedroom , she undressed and got into the big empty bed . |
| 3 | It was nice to be alone with him in Faye and Bill 's room , even though they were only doing the most mundane of jobs — stripping bed linen , dismantling head- and base-boards , and struggling with the big double mattress . |
| 4 | I put on a spacesuit , went outside and moved to the big round door . |
| 5 | Enjoy the ride down , let the wind fly through your hair , go with the flow , and wait for the big crash . |
| 6 | Operating as a striker for Penn State , he scored a record 14 goal in the Big Ten League , was named Big Ten ‘ Freshman of the Year ’ and named in the Big Ten All Star XI by the ‘ Soccer America ’ magazine . |
| 7 | And turning into the big , soft breast , she threw her arms round the woman 's shoulders and cried like a baby . |
| 8 | Or travel on the Mark Twain 's Mississippi-style steam boat down the Rivers of the Far West , and thrill to the Big Thunder Mountain 's Runaway train trip which plunges from rocky heights down a dangerous mine shaft . |
| 9 | ‘ Champagne , hot scented baths , Sibelius , tiny kittens , very , very , very expensive underwear that you hardly know you 're wearing , and skiing at night and going into the big stores on fifth Avenue and trying on all the three-hundred-dollar dresses and shoes and then saying that I do n't like any of them — I do that quite often — and … ’ |
| 10 | And going for the big one … the Dark Blues in their toughest training yet . |
| 11 | As a special mark of favour , Rainbow has brought Naomi to see the acting debut of a lesbian country-and-western heart-throb who 's branching out and sidling towards the big time . |
| 12 | For much of the time these small market towns may well have appeared sleepy to travellers who were familiar with the hustle and bustle of the big cities , but every week on market day and more especially at the time of the annual fairs they were transformed by an influx of visitors . |
| 13 | Garrison Savanah has a few tales to tell … he won the big race at Cheltenham 3 years ago and tomorrow the Gloucestershire favourite will be off and running for the big prize at Newbury |
| 14 | I stopped and looked at the big house . |
| 15 | ’ For five minutes the two engineers moved around in the steam and smoke , and looked at the big engines . |
| 16 | Holding hands with your man in the sea and jumping over the biggest waves you 've ever seen ? |
| 17 | In no time at all , he was scrubbed shiny , dressed in his night-shift , and seated in the big armchair , with the heat from the fire drying his hair and making him feel all sleepy . |
| 18 | What happens to people ten years later who leave their small town and go to the big city to find work ? |
| 19 | The Persian closed the door and went to the big mirror on one wall . |
| 20 | George had switched to drinking coffee laced with cognac — ; ‘ The complete cycle , the disease and the cure in one simple package , ’ and Agnes had muttered something about vitamin C and gone across the big room to play a Mozart piano concerto on the stereo . |
| 21 | reduction in motor sales , caused the loss of 150,000 jobs in engineering , hit every high street in the land and resulted in the biggest fall in investment since 1932 . |
| 22 | But we 'll all be so busy reading all this wonderful stuff , and learning from the big bad world about how to market it , that we wo n't have time to do anything else . ’ |
| 23 | McLeish repressed a grin and bustled into the big noisy pub on the corner , receiving an instant acknowledgement from one of the bartenders , who all knew any member of the C1 hierarchy . |
| 24 | WISE CHILDREN Angela Carter Carter 's obsession with performance gets a final airing as twin sister vaudeville actresses go to Hollywood and aim for the big time . |
| 25 | Since morning he had been in and out of the kitchen where Maggie and Mona were cleaning and tidying and preparing for the big meal . |
| 26 | The boring old unions would be pushed out by a new Rainbow Alliance of media-wise radicals , alert and campaigning on the big issues of racial and sexual discrimination , nuclear power , and protecting the environment . |
| 27 | The duvet wound itself around her as she turned and stretched in the big bed , her limbs languid with heat . |
| 28 | Together they had done all the things that she had wanted to do and never been allowed to : gone to Coney Island , licked lollipops on the front there , enjoyed herself in funfairs , and ridden on the Big Wheel . |
| 29 | I shifted my weight , angled left , and shot into the big Castle Surf which was building and adding to the wave I was on . |
| 30 | The Euro Cities Conference was also important because it was the founding of that organisation formally and it was important to go there and say to the big monopoly that 's emerging it 's |