Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] [verb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leopards might never be able to change their spots completely , but she was willing to try to get rid of a few of her more unattractive ones . |
| 2 | For it to be plausible , continual adaptation must be necessary for the maintenance of the life history , just as the Red Queen had to keep running to stay in the same place . |
| 3 | Furthermore , it is all too easy for both people to decide to let go at the same moment , so that no one is left holding a wing-tip . |
| 4 | Nature conservationists and farmers ( who both understand what does happen to abandoned land ) should know better , but in the past few years , seem to have become possessed by the same fear of some dark , prolific genie escaping from the bottle . |
| 5 | It 's not yet old enough to have become corrupted in the same way as the nuclear industry , that Fifties wunderkind gone bad . |
| 6 | It was not a good year for them to start with , and this year 's explosion in grey squirrel numbers seems to have put paid to the few that did form . |
| 7 | Half way through the Blackeyes saga , it looks as though we are going to have to make do with a few set pieces of one-to-one hostility . |