Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then I have always followed the fortunes of Preston and am saddened to see them languishing in the lower divisions . |
| 2 | As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree . |
| 3 | Pavel Penkin is the strike leader , what farmers want he says is a massive injection of state investment to enable them to compete in the new free market and improve their lot . |
| 4 | The first efforts to drain them began in the 1880s , but the main push came after a hurricane in 1947 drove floodwaters over Lake Okeechobee 's southern edge , drowning more than 2,000 people . |
| 5 | ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes . |
| 6 | To help them get in the laughing mood . ’ |
| 7 | What people to look you know in the modern society women do n't have to rely on men or do n't have to have traditional sex roles , this is a point of view is n't it ? |
| 8 | But there are many more , of course , and listing playwrights is useful only insofar as it presents a few guidelines , primarily to help you look in the right places . |
| 9 | was of a description which it would be reasonable to expect him to obtain in the ordinary course of that business , and that he does that thing in good faith in the course of that business . ’ |
| 10 | In this regard it is interesting to hear him comment in The Favourite Game that ‘ deprivation is the mother of poetry . ’ |
| 11 | Better to give them a good life here than to let them suffer in the vague hope of some better afterlife . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He refused to let them return in the New Year to London , ’ she said . |
| 13 | Once into the trees , they lost sight of the sun and the sky and had to rely on the compass to keep them heading in the right direction . |
| 14 | While there are few hard and fast rules about what is precisely right to wear at the office this season , there are some pointers to keep you heading in the right direction . |
| 15 | While there are few hard and fast rules about what is precisely right to wear at the office this season , there are some pointers to keep you heading in the right direction . |
| 16 | The force knows exactly how much harder it has to pull on the big one to keep it going in the same circle . |
| 17 | The Irish selectors were keen to see him play in the inter-pro series in his bid for a place in the Irish side . |
| 18 | PWL 's managing director David Howells entered the debate on Kylie 's future by insisting she had the qualities to see her endure in the same way pop 's Peter Pan Cliff Richard had . |
| 19 | This gives the authors opportunity to make alterations and additions to the text , and I am particularly grateful to have this opportunity to revise I Believe in the Holy Spirit . |
| 20 | Chamlong Simaung , the popular and charismatic Governor of Bangkok and leader of the Palang Dharma , announced on Jan. 14 that he was resigning his post to allow him to stand in the forthcoming elections in Bangkok Constituency 2 , one of the country 's most fiercely contested seats . |
| 21 | The company justified the closure as part as part of a cost-cutting exercise necessary to allow it to compete in the private sector . |
| 22 | The Izmailovo , which has 5,000 bedrooms is about to undergo a three-year , £20m refurbishment to enable it to compete in the international business and tourism travel market . |
| 23 | Suitably indignant this week over the pogrom nonsense , he can address the city 's racial tensions with a transparent decency and integrity that did much to get him elected in the first place — and that have served the city well since 1989 . |
| 24 | As a rule of thumb , moving a nearly new greenhouse will only cost about the same as it would to have it erected in the first place . |
| 25 | I know the time is slipping and I hope to get it done in the next two weeks . |
| 26 | An attempt by the District Attorney to overturn it resulted in the Supreme Court 's consideration of the case on April 2 . |
| 27 | Endill watched Tock make a hole in the wall , holding his hammer with both hands to stop it banging in the wrong place . |
| 28 | Since the downfall of military regimes in South America and elsewhere provide clear evidence that no political structure relying solely on coercion can hope to survive for long , we should not be surprised to find that the most effective form of social control involves attempts not to crush opposition but to stop it arising in the first place : that is , by the control of people 's ideas , rather than of their actions . |
| 29 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 30 | This non-drying adhesive stays very sticky for months and can be squeezed out onto a strip of tape around benches , staging , individual pots , or even across doorways to prevent them walking in the first place . |