Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following morning a person who was out with his gun , in expectation of falling in with some sort of wild fowl , perceiving an appearance rather uncommon , ventured to approach the spot ; upon his coming up the dog got off the body , and after repeatedly shaking himself to get disentangled from the accumulated snow , encouraged the sportsman ( a Mr. Finch ) , by actions of the most significant nature , to come near the side of his master . |
| 2 | I tried everything to get rid of the extra weight with no success . |
| 3 | Relatively cheap methods of testing local ground conditions which have been researched by geomorphologists can act as useful warnings to engineers as to whether they are risking the kind of problems which now make the Trannon scheme , with hindsight , a questionable one to have undertaken in the first place . |
| 4 | It would have been too chancy and too tiring a journey for her to have taken by the complicated network of bus connections , with its many waits , and there was her luggage . |
| 5 | Miss Nazir warned them to get rid of the stolen property and then went to alert her sister . |
| 6 | He left me to become acquainted with the religious environment , and then handed me a paperback entitled Modern Buddhism in Burma , which he had edited in cooperation with Kenneth Saunders , warden of the YMCA hostel , and already a translator of the Dhamma-pada , a collection of short sayings thought to go back to the Buddha . |