Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [pron] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There is no point in complaining ; they may try to mollify you in their irritatingly good English , but they will not have a clue what you are so anxious about .
2 Are we to cart her with us there next month ? ’
3 The Angelina , to put it at its most kindly , was a rather striking-looking craft .
4 That is , to put it at its most basic , the respondent is at least an adequate reporter of his or her attitudes , beliefs and other subjective states , his or her relationship with others , past , present and intended behaviour , and about objective features of the respondent 's life .
5 Not long ago geographers were wont to divide it into its most impressive component bodies , and to call them the Seven Seas .
6 They do n't need a pop group to drill it into them how miserable they are ’ ) .
7 I usually put my ribber carriage against the garter bar as this helps to keep it in its slightly precarious position while I finish knitting the first side .
8 ‘ Fool , ’ said Rhodri impatiently , ‘ would they be likely to send it by one palpably dishonest ?
9 Debt collectors are a third party and that point alone often has enough psychological impact to get a debtor to pay them on their very first approach .
10 When sleep threatens to take him from me yet another time , I remind Crilly of a line from the film Drugstore Cowboy , in which the heroine says , ‘ You never fuck me and I always have to drive ’ .
11 We allowed them to see us at our most absurd .
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