Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv prt] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’ |
| 2 | It sets out , by example as well as by direct command , the differences between right and wrong , so that the man who measures his conduct by Bible standards gains from it both " reproof " when he is in the wrong and " correction " to set him back on a right course . |
| 3 | There was nothing like a flower to cheer you up on a dark day . |
| 4 | It was at this point that I decided to put her back on a loose creance , so that she could approach the lure from whatever direction she pleased . |
| 5 | ‘ Deliberately falsified information … to send us off on a wasteful course of negative research . |