Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb base] to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many criticisms made of pluralism by writers who object to its normative implications , and some of these , as we argue in Chapter 5 , give a distinctly strawlike quality to their description of their target . |
| 2 | I am afraid he 's the laughing-stock of the court , despised by most and pitied by the few who listen to his constant pleas of innocence . |
| 3 | That is the way of fools and failures who plunge to their own destruction because a part of them has despaired and wishes to die . |
| 4 | They are seen not as the victims of social problems but as those who contribute to their own victimisation by their irresolution or fatalism or apathy . |
| 5 | Out drinking with a couple of female journalists ( in what was supposedly Hemingway 's favourite bar in Havana , if you must know ) , I mentioned I was writing this article and we all launched into our favourite New Age stories , like the one about the Immortalists , a group who take to its logical end the New Age philosophy of positive thinking and creating your own reality , and have decided they are going to live forever . |
| 6 | The people I like best of all are those who write to me several times as this gives me ‘ feed-back ’ on whether my solution to their original problem was correct , or the information I provided useful . |
| 7 | He who touches pitch shall be indelibly stained with pitch , and dogs who return to their own vomit will be sick again and again . |