Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some 330,000 electors to acquire anything like that " sufficient personal knowledge " , self-advertisement would have to become the MP 's chief preoccupation . |
| 2 | It 's important for the foreign traveller to accumulate lots of useless gadgetry and ephemera that they 'd never dream of buying normally , and which makes the whole process of travelling so much more cumbersome and awkward for others . |
| 3 | It was a funny feeling to meet someone like that and feel that way . |
| 4 | At this stage in the period preceding the Budget , he will not expect me or any of my right hon. Friends to say anything about specific tax matters . |
| 5 | It 's quite a brave thing to invite somebody like this into your home . |
| 6 | It was strictly forbidden for male patients to visit anyone except close relatives on the female floor . |
| 7 | But finally he had an envelope of papers in one hand and his wallet in the other and Bruno was clutching a wad of Deutsch-marks and challenging Maxim with a twisted leer to say something about that . |
| 8 | Chapter 6 offers specific advice on some aspects of developing good study habits , but it 's important at this early stage to understand something about human learning . |
| 9 | He kept meditating on the highest ideals and professed weakness to do anything about those ideals . |
| 10 | At the end of the day , the only way to do something about that is to put more men on the streets . |
| 11 | Letting the water buoy up my weight I stretched my feet down to touch bottom and found the water came up to my ears ; took a deep breath , put the rest of my head under and reached around for Harry , unable to see him , unable with open eyes to see anything at all . |
| 12 | Dorothy 's own attempt to preserve something from those final Somerset months produced a document more private , but hardly less remarkable . |
| 13 | I reckoned that I needed to chance everything on a — well , it 's a bit like roulette , when you feel an inexplicable urge to stake everything on one number … |
| 14 | I tried to banish the idea of a drowned Shelley by conjuring up the memory of Mary stepping into Lake Geneva and looking back at me over her shoulder ; instead came a more ferocious image — that of a gigantic man leaping towards me : not the best picture to help one through these present circumstances . |
| 15 | It was not unusual for young ladies to do nothing at all ; unless they occupied themselves with Berlin woolwork or the making of shell boxes , there was practically nothing genteel to do . |
| 16 | His coach Ron Roddan says that , at 32 , he has never been fitter , that the disappointment of the World Championships last year , in which he ran his guts out and finished fourth , provided the final necessary impetus to give everything for this final race . |
| 17 | Some species may be receiving sufficient light to grow plenty of healthy foliage , but will always lack that little extra needed to produce flowering shoots . |
| 18 | I 'd be the last person to say anything against old Stavanger — he brought me into the company , and I owe a lot to him . |