Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The Wrench he creates the rigger Faussone , the practical man whose cranes girdle the world and who keeps returning , a little heavy-footed , to the house in Turin where two old aunts fuss over his welfare : Faussone was spoken of as ‘ my alter ego ’ , and the book has to struggle to accommodate him as a second person , available for interview by Levi . |
| 2 | The sale of beer by the gaoler in late eighteenth-century Britain was apparently universal — Howard called it the ‘ tap ’ and seems to have regarded it as a necessary evil . |
| 3 | Otherwise , it seems to have regarded it as a matter of political judgment . |
| 4 | This last work was never finished : Mozart seems to have written it as an act of thanksgiving for his marriage , intending Constanze herself to sing as soprano soloist . |
| 5 | ‘ Heather seems to have taken it as a confirmation of her belief in the significance of the Tyrrell Society . ’ |
| 6 | Together with its stultifying racial enmities , this seems to have brought it to a halt , and placed it beyond history . |
| 7 | One glimmer of hope though , tonight police say that someone who knows the couple claims to have seen them at a garden centre in herefordshire . |