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• I'm not big on the idea, but if you want to go ahead with it, I won't stop you.
• In the Appalachian League, where Cal Ripken once played in Bluefield, W.Va., a ballplayer's chances of making it to the bigs are less than one in six.
• He hit him big and the guy just crumpled.
• He's always talking big, but he never delivers.
• You've got to think big to succeed at Amalgamated Plumbing.
• He won big betting on the croquet championship.
• You are a big liar.  Why are you in such a big hurry?
• [Day] big with the fate of Cato and of Rome.
• She was big with child.
• Whoa, Nadia has gotten pretty big since she hit puberty.
• I tried to be the bigger person and just let it go, but I couldn't help myself.
• That's very big of you, thank you!
• Elephants are big animals, and they eat a lot.
• It proved a big miss as Hoilett produced a sublime finish into the top corner of the net from 20 yards after evading a couple of challenges in first-half stoppage time.
• "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. I always made up my mind I'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't steal."
• What's so big about that? I do it all the time.
• Gosh, she is big!
• By midnight, however, the last light had fled / For even big people have then gone to bed[.]
• Kids should get help from big people if they want to use the kitchen.
• That style is very big right now in Europe, especially among teenagers.
• There were concerns about the ethics of big science.
• Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
• The big houses, and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line,, with their court of farm and church and clustered village, in dignified seclusion.