Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pron] in the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , although he had recently been known to talk to an invisible giant white rabbit and peek at his neighbours through binoculars , neither of these traits were deemed enough to blacken him in the eyes of the electors . |
| 2 | But if I were Ben Hogan , and a Bob Hamilton or Willie Goggin chipped in to beat me in The Masters , a Walter Burkemo holed a sand shot to swipe the PGA , a raw rookie — pick one — holed a 7-iron to beat me somewhere in Florida and then the like of a Bud Holscher or a Shelley Mayfield holed yet another sand shot to steal yet another victory , then I 'd not only be scouring the Fort Worth Yellow Pages looking for the nearest shrink , I might even think of tossing myself under a freight train in the nearest marshalling yard . |
| 3 | Trefusis had wished her luck , Juliet had told her to shoot straight , and the psych techs had tried not to look her in the eyes . |
| 4 | Yet these non-Conservative elements — the Liberal Nationals and National Labour — were becoming more and more adjuncts to the Conservative party , and they owed their seats entirely to the willingness of the Conservatives not to oppose them in the constituencies . |
| 5 | Girls who could n't get themselves a husband in this country were sent out to find one in the colonies and it seldom failed . ’ |
| 6 | But she did n't know where to find it in the rows of medical books in the nursing school library . |