Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , fitzAlan had n't seemed to worry about exposing her to the elements . |
| 2 | But I 'm sure it was much more important to pave over history and build this — this autostrada than to worry about preserving something like the Appian Way ! ’ |
| 3 | Our instincts tell us to beware of abandoning ourselves to the care of someone else . |
| 4 | It was as if all the stifled rebellion on which the great flat and heavy city had pressed with its pompous facades since the time of those artisans whom Peter the Great had sent to perish in building it in the swamp , had boiled up in a single night . |
| 5 | Baxter used to delight in taunting him with the nickname ‘ Oor Wullie ’ and in his biography described Allen as ‘ a pillar of the church , a model of rectitude and , not to labour the point , a pompous pain in the neck . ’ |
| 6 | At twilight it is most important to be kind to animals , to refrain from throwing anything on the ground , from riding either horse or camel over the desert , for you might injure a rising djinn and they are vengeful spirits . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) A licence must be refused if the body providing the canteen fails to undertake to make rules in terms of a draft approved by the board , and to refrain from altering them without the consent of the board . |
| 8 | Instead I have to start by describing something of the unease I feel about its use and study within the literature , and gradually move toward a position from which I can either offer a definition of labourism or construct boundaries within which it exists and operates . |
| 9 | She intended to plead her own nervousness and her desire not to be destined for public exhibition and planned to finish by thanking him for the compliment of his request and wishing him well in finding a more practised model . |