Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people leap out of bed and charge about the ward on their first day after the operation only to collapse in a heap the day after that . |
| 2 | He replied that he held his power in Italy by the same right of conquest established by Charlemagne and Otto , he had come , he said , ‘ not to receive as a suppliant the transient favours of an unruly people , but as a prince resolved to claim , if necessary by force of arms , the inheritance of his forebears ’ . |
| 3 | I am an American , this is my home , it does n't do me any good commercially to race in a formula the people back home do n't understand . |
| 4 | It is better , I am inclined to think , never again to listen to a word a professional golfer tells you . |
| 5 | We were anxious therefore to reduce to a minimum the number of samples where parental choice was unclear so from November 1990 we sent lists of infants untested to the local health district at the end of each month so that parental choice could be checked while the original sample was still usable . |