Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] in the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 2 | Kankoila was one of the founder members of FLING , helping to establish it in the early 1950s . |
| 3 | I am going to play him in the remaining reserve games so that I can get a good look at him . |
| 4 | Thomson 's son poured so much money into The Times in the vain effort to modernize it in the late 1970s that no one could blame him for wanting to sell it . |
| 5 | To put it in the broadest possible terms , we can see that intonation makes it easier for a listener to understand what a speaker is trying to convey . |
| 6 | The average thermal efficiency of French steam power stations , which had been well below that in Britain initially , was to overtake it in the later 1950s , as the more advanced French sets were commissioned ; and France caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency , while Britain remained behind . |
| 7 | Now that the election has been announced , will the Minister take the opportunity to apologise to the industry 's workers and employers for failing to do anything to protect them in the past 13 years ? |
| 8 | If I do n't manage to contact you in the next few days , I 'll still send these questionnaires in the hope of a splendidly useful response . |
| 9 | I had a thought for no-one 's but your ears , That you were beautiful and that I strove To love you in the old high way of love , That it had all seemed happy … |
| 10 | It was left to his brother Laurence to include it in the posthumous More Poems ( 1936 ) . |
| 11 | In response , the largest bird importer in the US , A.A. Pare , has argued that " What we 're doing is salvaging the birds … if they stay in the jungle , they 're not going to have it in the next five years … |
| 12 | ‘ The Palace wants to portray us in the worst possible light . |
| 13 | The commission now has the task of finding another country to take him in the next five days , and it is not optimistic . |
| 14 | Dorothy 's Wrinkled Stocking tearoom — named after broom-wielding battleaxe Norah Batty — has been overrun with trippers since BBC chiefs chose to feature it in the evergreen Pennine series . |