Example sentences of "[adj] [vb pp] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as if God , embittered by the recalcitrance of humanity , has turned to behaving in the same manner as that imputed to him by the serpent in the Garden in its dialogue with the woman . |
| 2 | In upholstery you really do get what you pay for and you usually have to take the quality on trust since you can not see all the underpinnings of frames , filling and springs unless you are shown a sample cross section and have it all explained to you in the shop . |
| 3 | . The damage done to industry by any of these three methods would probably be more than the good done to it by the direct help and , anyway I am not clear on the sort of direct help that might be intended . ’ |
| 4 | Experienced solicitors took turns in seeing defendants in custody and those referred to them by the court so that they could advise ( not represent ) an appropriate course of action . |
| 5 | The question before me today is whether Parliament , in using similar language in section 265 , intended those words to bear the same meaning as those given to them by the House of Lords under the Act of 1914 . |
| 6 | In June town employees were angered because they had to pay six million roubles commission to Jews in order to exchange a hundred million given to them in the form of bonds for their pay . |
| 7 | I 've just had two presented to me in the last eight months . |