Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [coord] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's been a lifelong ambition of mine to beat him but at the big jump before Ballyboley Corner , Joey whizzed past me and although I tried to catch him again and take a tight line at Ballyboley he had just too much experience and he held on to beat me . |
| 2 | The party turned around to face him and for the first time the fat man moved . |
| 3 | On leaving Powell Street he had lit a cigarette and within seconds a disembodied voice was booming at him to extinguish it and at the next station put it out the door on to the track . |
| 4 | In fact it took another two years for the project to be fully studied , for the government to support its formal submission to the World Bank , for the Bank 's board to approve it and for the first tranche of funds to flow . |
| 5 | The MPRP needs to improve itself and at the same time if new parties are formed for the interest of the people and the country , they should be competing on equal terms . " |