Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] [pers pn] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are not advocates of the ‘ prosperity gospel ’ , but we do recognise that the people God definitely seems to entrust with finances are those whom he can trust to hold them with an open hand . |
| 2 | The T&G would like to support her with a clear conscience and every left-of-centre statement from her helps . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course I 'd like to see you with a few sheep , my lass , sheep being so close to my heart . |
| 4 | As I am drawing to a close , as I can find no further connections or criticisms of these two books however obvious or unobvious they may be , I would like to leave you with an appropriate quote from one of my books . |
| 5 | But would she like to do it with a stranger and one so strange as Leon who came , not just from ten miles off , but a thousand ? |
| 6 | But I suspect a lot of you would want to leave them with a matt finish , it 's entirely up to you Anyway when you paint , like I say , it 's just it 's because it 's porous it sucks the colour off the brush and er it immediately dries , so you can see , straight away , the colour it 's gon na be when you then put the varnish on you use a sort of matt varnish and so it brings the colour up but it wo n't be shiny or a shine , which you 're gon na choose like you might wan na matt varnish with this and shiny for the shell which ca it really brings the colour up , we wo n't get round to varnishing today erm and the other thing you can do , if you want erm a sort of a mottled effect you do pink in a base colour say Mikila wanted all greeny , bluey colours on that |
| 7 | We shall certainly try to monitor it with the best precision that we can but , at this stage , we do not have firm figures . |
| 8 | You can tell him from me that if he wants me to stay in this urban backwater of yours he 'll have to provide me with an interesting occupation — and I do n't mean modelling your dress . |
| 9 | Or I 'll have to bash it with a rolling pin again . |
| 10 | They will also try to inculcate you with a spurious respect for a ‘ culture ’ which not only fails to distinguish between what is good and what is profitable but which can not distinguish between substance and insubstantiality . |
| 11 | Once you 've arranged your flowers , make sure you keep your container topped up with water , and do n't forget to refresh them with a quick spray . |
| 12 | The more he can find to dazzle us with the greater is the compliment that he pays to Eden . |