Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a letter to his mother he explained that ‘ seeing God had so often heard his most humble petitions , and had delivered him out of many most eminent dangers of soul and body , and had brought his family out of most desperate calamities , he should now seek to serve Him in such a calling ’ . |
| 2 | First of all I 'd like to compliment you on such a brill and fabbo magazine . |
| 3 | Experience may help you take some of these into account but if you went for a fixed fee you may have to pitch it at such a level to allow for these that it 's perhaps twice what it might be and you could lose the client . |
| 4 | ‘ I have wanted to meet you for such a long time , ’ she began hesitantly . |
| 5 | It is not intended to place her in such a state of independence as might seduce her to devote her time to the idleness of Poetry … |
| 6 | ‘ Maybe that is true , but I ca n't see how it will deter a side which has superior scrummaging from trying to use it in such a situation ’ , said Ken Rowlands , the WRU director of refereeing . |
| 7 | I knew what he was getting at , of course , and I was so hurt that he should think he had to approach me in such a roundabout fashion — as if I was a terrible , uncharitable woman who had to be coaxed into a simple act of kindness — that I suggested it myself at once , though it was really the last thing I wanted . |
| 8 | Furthermore , it had to regulate it in such a way as to ensure that it would ‘ contain a suitable proportion of matter calculated to appeal to tastes and interests not generally catered for by Service 1 ( i.e. ITV 1 ) ’ . |