Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [indef pn] [vb mod] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 So if , at some stages of a life , the individual is poorer than at others , this may not matter because everybody will experience the same relative shifts in affluence as they move through stages of life .
2 They showed us a spinette and asked if anyone could play the piano .
3 It was a cross between military masochism and romantic delusion , and was almost impossible to understand unless one could grasp the complete picture .
4 Senior Tories doubt if anyone will do the decent thing for Patten .
5 But I doubt if anyone will win the 1996 election on a slogan of ‘ Back to the simple cheese sandwich at £1.25 , and death to expensive Ploughman 's lunches ’ .
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