Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver . |
| 2 | A key objective since Tencel was launched has been to position it at the top end of the market , working with the best mills , converters and manufacturers and attracting a premium price for the fibre . |
| 3 | An alternative explanation for price rises , for example , has been to relate them to the amount of money in circulation or the bullion value of the coinage . |
| 4 | All I can do is to tell them of the number and variety involved , and point them to some background reading . |
| 5 | Tony found that the best thing to do was to put her in the buggy and push her round the town , or take her to the park . |
| 6 | Waste from animals was a valuable fertiliser — all you had to do was to plough it into the land . |
| 7 | Yes , it was real , it was happening : sitting with her back straight and her head up in the carriage on the way back , she thought how proud her father would have been to see her at the centre of all this pomp and splendour , and found herself mentally comparing his craggy looks and red beard with Joãs clean-shaven face and small , manicured hands . |
| 8 | Well er by the time I arrived at the doorway to the room erm a male person was lying on the floor , spreadeagled er and my job would have been to cover him with the shot gun er to enable P C to go forward and handcuff the chap . |
| 9 | ‘ The best chance would have been to grab her on the way in , ’ the man said . |
| 10 | The only satisfactory way to deal with a word which can not be found is to negotiate it with the user ; such a word can be ignored ( i.e. , removed from the search ) or replaced , or the search can be abandoned on the ground that the word is correct and essential to the success of the search . |
| 11 | Whenever my mother and I had visited her from Štanjel , the first thing Aunt Ema always did was to call me into the larder , which was dark and cool , and give me a large spoonful of the most delicious cream from which she used to make butter , saying in the Mavhinje dialect : ‘ Take this , beautiful , because I know that you do n't like cream in your coffee . ’ |
| 12 | It seems , however , always to have been associated by those who employed it with the idea that Britain 's historic policy towards its dependencies had been to lead them along the path towards self-government — a belief which had for its principal inspiration the history of Canada since the Durham report . |
| 13 | Coleman knew them already — they had been to see him at the University of Alabama while planning the trip — and so it was natural enough that he should now take on the chore of shepherding them around the island during their stay . |
| 14 | When they met , Burn said that Donaldson had been to see him in the interim . |
| 15 | His original plan had been to sell her at the Sonepur Mela in Bihar , the world 's largest animal fair and their final destination . |