Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] in [art] " in BNC.

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1 Nevertheless , the principle of chisel ploughing has much to recommend it in the right conditions .
2 I asked him why this change of heart and he said that it was because Harold Wilson had seen fit to put her in the Lords .
3 My fingers feel all tingly , but it do n't half feel good to stick them in the water .
4 I fully appreciate and feel the force of the narrowness of the distinctions which are taken between what is admissible and what is not admissible , but the exception presently proposed is so extensive that I do not feel able to support it in the present state of our knowledge of its practical results in this jurisdiction .
5 It hardly seemed fair to keep them in the cage she had made out of an old claret case she had dragged up from the cellar .
6 Bush , who had repeatedly stated his opposition to abortion under all but the most extreme circumstances , was known to oppose the bill , and was thought likely to veto it in the event of its enactment .
7 Rather than sending the children out when the adults want to talk , it may be that a neighbour could make sure to include them in an outing to give the child time to talk to them .
8 Nevertheless it is indisputable that all the early church fathers believed in the Devil as the Evil One , although it was never found necessary to define him in the way we must do so about God .
9 For their part , trade unions showed little or no interest in the new community-based movements that emerged from the late 1960s , and saw little to interest them in the educational work that developed around community struggles .
10 Humpage had been chosen as wicketkeeper and started the game behind the stumps , but with Gloucestershire finding little to worry them in the efforts of Warwickshire 's regular bowlers , Humpage removed his pads and gloves , with Chris Maynard , playing as a batsman , taking over as wicketkeeper .
11 We 're passed that now we 're trying to give people more direction , get them involved er this is the first year we 've able to do it in a sense , properly cos it 's been the first year , with all due respect to all the work you 've done in the past , we 've got five year tutors .
12 However , in contradistinction to mortality summaries , period tables have less to commend them in the case of marriage where year-to-year variations may be considerable and past history affects cohorts differentially .
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