Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I carry with me the tattered remnants of this psychic structure : there is no way of not working hard , nothing in the end but an endurance that will allow me to absorb everything by the way of difficulty , holding on to the grave .
2 Few were even prepared to try to mediate , none to risk anything for the king and the Despensers .
3 ‘ Did his general condition lead you to expect something of the sort ? ’
4 The mirror image of a helix is a precise replica of it except that no amount of turning will allow you to superimpose one on the other .
5 er next week is your let letters N and P for the raffle table , for the benefit of new members you go alphabetically through , you know , from A to Z and when it 's your turn we 'd like you to bring something for the raffle table
6 With enough graphic violence ( face slashing , gut piercing etc ) to exclude younger viewers and nothing whatsoever to lure anyone over the age of 14 , this is a film which aims for ( and hits ) a totally non-existent target audience .
7 He was tempted to tell her to hire someone from the gutter press if she wanted more earthy writing , or some bloody feminist if she wanted a sensitive novel .
8 It was so unusual for him to contribute anything to the conversation that Paula glanced at him in surprise .
9 During the course of the market process the competitive efforts of a particular producer-entrepreneur may lead him to offer something to the market which no one else is currently producing .
10 All the same , Connor suggested to him privately that it might not be a bad idea for him to learn something about the art of self-defence , and offered to give him some lessons .
11 Tell her to say nothing about the child .
12 Was she waiting for him to say something about the letter ?
13 They could never get him to tell anything about the life he had lived before he came to Knockglen .
14 We 're talking here of protection , of they ca n't have waiver of premium because of ill-health , they 're not going to be able to have living assurance , so it , it 's not an option really for them to have one without the other , because it 's an automatic protection that , that really should be the basis of somebody 's package of their health commitment to have it .
15 If they are trying to use me to get something for the museum , then I shall think of something else .
16 Suddenly , after two centuries of obscurity and legends , two documents coming from the chancery of Antiochus III allow us to see something of the life of Jerusalem ; the second document is again quoted by Flavius Josephus ( Ant .
17 This is taking us from the mundane and the ugly and helping us to see something of the reality of the splendour of God in our lives , particularly when we worship Him .
18 If you look through it , if my adding up is correct , it requires us to keep something in the order of sixteen separate files on one project .
19 Either we can influence and help that to be to be good or or you know if that 's a failure then see whether they can help us to produce one for the town .
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