Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [pron] [noun] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The organisation wants to increase its investments at the rate of a dozen or so per year . |
2 | PAT CASH , the former Wimbledon champion out of competition for six months after surgery on a ruptured Achilles tendon , plans to make his comeback at the Hopman Cup in Perth over Christmas . |
3 | She prefers to engage her readers at the coal-face , as it were ; that of the formation of moral intuitions , or the making of decisions . |
4 | We 're both Aquarian dreamers and have always been able to be ‘ alone ’ together , or step easily into imagination games , and Max — like me — has a fairy godmother who always seems to save his neck at the last minute . |
5 | However , if the company elects to exercise its option at the beginning of a contract year , it must pay the artist a previously agreed sum of money as an advance against future royalties . |
6 | So , when Joe shoots to death his teenage mistress , Dorcas , and a deranged Violet decides to disfigure her rival at the funeral , it 's no surprise that the past rushes back to take its rightful place . |