Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [conj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How better to inculcate it than in the young ? " |
| 2 | It was I who needed to see him because of the broken nights , the strain involved in loss of sleep . ’ |
| 3 | The State then operates as an educational function , as Gramsci suggests , in this case , to educate us as to the worthy and the unworthy , the deserving and the undeserving . |
| 4 | We 're about to lose our coal industry and er we 're about to lose it because of the incompetent blind dogma er of this present government . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | The party turned around to face him and for the first time the fat man moved . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But best to remind you that on the tenth of May , we 've got Jerry coming . |
| 10 | On the Tuesday night , however , my Private Secretary , Steve Godber , rang me at a dinner to tell me that at the eleventh hour Nigel Lawson had put round a minute which sought to reopen the whole issue of the replacement for SERPS . |
| 11 | I came to tell you that in the next life you wo n't return to Earth . ’ |