Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pron] in the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1	The first I knew about the plan to publish it in the newspapers tomorrow was a fax at midday today . ’
2	Said Granada 's Controller of Sport Paul Doherty : ‘ I told the ITV lawyers that I consider this unfair restriction of trade and I want ITV as a body to challenge it in the courts .
3	For Foucault , the tendency of theories of ideology to entrammel themselves in the categories of psychoanalysis , even with the eternal in Althusser 's case , means that they themselves begin to utilize the very procedures of individuation that they ought to have been analysing .
4	Gregory himself thought he had married Rachel when he became a monk ; but being pope was like waking up in the night to find oneself in the arms of Liah .
5	By night to comfort them in the shelters during raids .
6	At the same time , UK paperbackers are contractually bound not to issue their paperbacks into the UK before the hardback editions of the same titles have had a chance to prove themselves in the bookshops .
7	Unable to find anyone to care for Beru while they were in hospital , they asked a tradesman to leave her in the mountains ‘ to die naturally ’ .
8	The coalition wants Congress to involve itself in the details of the agreement , as a means of ensuring adequate environmental and health guarantees .
9	This is another classic example of our ability to shoot ourselves in the feet .
10	So she had downgraded herself , attempting by each step to lose herself in the back-streets of the cities she went to .
11	All she wanted was not to know again , so that she could stay a little child and never have to grow up and face the world without her mother to wake her in the mornings and teach her things and tell her stories and pass on all her wisdom about the world and men and how babies came and why the best any woman could hope for in this life was to be able to make one man happy .

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