Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling more than ready to pass him without acknowledgement , she found , however , that he was n't of the same mind . |
| 2 | As in the past , this normally involved a process of barter : to obtain information the ambassador had to be able and willing to give it in return . |
| 3 | There would be a few drinks , some canapes and a few staff who were free and willing to do it on overtime . |
| 4 | In the Preface of the Octavo Dictionary ( 1724 ) , Philip Miller remarked that before the beginning of the century this country 's preoccupation with trade had allowed the Italians , French and Dutch to outstrip it in horticulture . |
| 5 | The men who walk our streets as community bobbies today are equipped and ready to take them by force tomorrow . |
| 6 | At seven forty-five , she was dressed and ready to face him over breakfast , but a knock on the door made her stiffen . |
| 7 | That being moved by imagining from a sufferer 's viewpoint does draw me towards his goals is sufficiently shown by my impulse to shrink from imagining as painful in itself , and liable to draw me into action against my own interests . |
| 8 | This approach is difficult to reconcile with the principle of supremacy of Community law and would not seem to be the correct way to apply the principle of indirect effect the duty of the national courts to interpret national law as far as possible to bring it into line with Community obligations . |
| 9 | Before the Christmas rinds had been thrown to the pigs , Osbern of Eu had gone , in one of Thorfinn 's remaining ships , and twenty men with him , in seas as ready to rob them of life as the war they were joining in Normandy . |