Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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1 | By creating and maintaining institutions that deny feelings of warmth and tenderness , by encouraging male competitive and aggressive styles of human encounter , prisons are killing off in prisoners those qualities most likely to help re-establish them in the community . |
2 | Almost all of the higher earners and men with 10 or more partners have had oral sex with a woman , and it 's the men with a regular relationship and someone else on the side who are most likely to have done it in the past year . |
3 | Fat chance , thought Leonora , unable to resist keeping him in the dark about whether Elise was going with her . |
4 | Gwenellen thought neither , as if Marcus tonight was anything like Marcus last night Old Red would be far too busy to remember meeting me in the subway . |
5 | We look at some of the models available to help point you in the right direction |
6 | My wife , Daphne , volunteered to stay and man — sorry , woman — the ramparts at home ; thus proving , not for the first time , she was far too bright to have married me in the first place . |