Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adj] of the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She had an exhaustive knowledge of Sunday Schools and it was depressing to find him full of the same bogus affability that she detected on every Sabbath of the year .
2 ‘ I am trying to suggest that since it is clear that Artai wants you out of Kinsai , you ought to think about asking him to award you one of the new Khanates .
3 ‘ Do you disapprove of us , my angel ? ’ she asked , exalted by wine and overbearing , and took him down to the kitchen to give him some of the leftover chicken .
4 Right it 's going to do it ninth of the fourth ninety three .
5 Shortly after joining the company a local business man asked Charles Fletcher to build him one of the new flying machines .
6 When it opened in 1931 , erected on 22,000 concrete piles to lift it clear of the water-sodden ground , it already sported its own blast furnace , foundry , jetty and power station .
7 No doubt I will request our librarian to get me some of the original references cited but my point is that surely Chemistry in Britain is written for the general interest and education of chemists and ought to be comprehensible to the reasonably trained chemist .
8 It took Everton only 15 minutes to get their noses in front when Mark Ward made the opening for Matt Jackson to burst between two defenders and pull the ball back for Cottee to steer it wide of the helpless Mark Crossley .
9 is a marvellous new publication which is specifically for parents of pre-school children , to make them aware of the Catholic network of schools provided for them .
10 Kāli came to bring me some of the cooked meat , chewing some herself .
11 As a Monk of the Abbey of Bec in France he made a study of architecture and this was to make him one of the foremost architects of his age .
12 Home-school links , the promotion of which was originally considered important enough to make it one of the four original aims of PNP , accounted for only one teacher-day in every hundred devoted to primary INSET .
13 Ian has spent the winter season rebuilding his machine to make it one of the fastest 600s on the grid .
14 Valdemar was extremely helpful and took the next day off work to show us some of the local birds .
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