Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should the current tide turn , we will think about it with great pleasure and renewed confidence . |
| 2 | You can buy from him in complete confidence . |
| 3 | Rachel could only glare at him in silent hatred , not trusting herself to speak . |
| 4 | The use of the split infinitive is now generally acceptable , though some more traditional grammarians would probably still disapprove of it as incorrect English . |
| 5 | Now unless we think that dreams can unravel very fast in the mind , much faster , and there is some evidence that that 's true actually , that dreams can in fact happen quicker than you could think of them in conscious time . |
| 6 | No one could ever take that away from her , and she would always think of him with special affection . |
| 7 | When the subject of his father cropped up , which was not very often , Phil found that she could speak of him with true affection , keeping alive for the little boy his early memories of a loving father . |
| 8 | Eager to keep together , they tended to widen any track they used rather than tramp along it in single file . |
| 9 | You see , he does n't just speak to us for small talk , he does n't just speak to while away the time with , with conversation . |
| 10 | But it does not feel to them like real work and there is no financial reward and rarely any specific long-term achievable objectives which can be shared with others . |
| 11 | These I shall send to you for harsh criticism and very helpful suggestions re set . ’ |
| 12 | The present owners of Pool Bank were previously the tenants , and during their tenancy they cared for the gallery and strengthened it , and now as owners will watch over it with loving care . |
| 13 | ‘ I would look after her with loving care , Mr Wormwood , and I would pay for everything . |
| 14 | Councillor , well well we 'll find out , Councillor has put this motion in , I 've wound it up Lord Mayor , I 'll challenge him or any of his team to a public debate where we can look at the record about , name your place , name your time , I will , I will debate with you in public Councillor on our record of reforms and the Health Service . |
| 15 | For example , the modern female hostage who falls in love with her captor may not merely be manifesting the well-known defence of ‘ identification with the aggressor ’ ( particularly since it is not so much identification with him as submission to him ) , she may instead be giving way to her phylogenetic id and its demand that a female captured by a male should look to him for sexual satisfaction . |
| 16 | Something in his tone of voice made her look at him with new wariness . |
| 17 | So we gon na look at it in simple form first , things like carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide and carbonates and then build up erm I think , no . |
| 18 | But the long smelly trails snaking along the branches and renewed repeatedly every night , also mark out the main highways through the tree so that , if necessary , the bush babies can scamper along them at considerable speed in the pitch blackness . |
| 19 | They may conceive of it in piecemeal fashion , recognising particular boundaries as and when it is unavoidably necessary to do so . |
| 20 | But the others could only stare at him in speechless amazement . |
| 21 | It was more years than she cared to remember since she had last seen a man stare at her in frank admiration . |
| 22 | One of them — a little old-fashioned perhaps , for I do not see many people doing it nowadays — is to walk around it guide-book in hand , best of all with one of those old Murray 's Handbooks for Travellers , the most catholic , the most informative , the most solid guide-books ever written in this country ; still well worth buying though the last one came out nearly fifty years ago and one must hunt for them with increasing difficulty in the second-hand bookshops . |
| 23 | And we 'll give them a fork and knife and I wo n't go into it in great detail but everything is going to be the six courses will be entirely accurately served on bread plates over on pewter trenchers . |
| 24 | The essential insertions will be found below , and we shall come to them in due course . |
| 25 | If you have a query about anything concerning the outdoor world why not write to us at Outdoor Action ? |
| 26 | You have a dialogue box to go through in order to amend the entry , and you can only get to it by double clicking on the item 's stock code . |
| 27 | Being able to capitalize part of her pension would allow her to present herself at one of the main building societies with a deposit , to halve her housing costs , and begin acquiring a capital asset that would last with her into old age . |
| 28 | He is a very complex man ; he thinks deeply about every role and you must talk to him in great detail . |
| 29 | Rose did n't smack her charge : too little ; but she would complain at her in exasperated sing-song . |
| 30 | One thing I can say of him with total confidence is that I have never met a man less interested in money . |