Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] to [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frenchman Alain Prost has come out of retirement in a bid to steer it to a fourth world title next season . |
| 2 | The Secretary of State has been trying to say that he is a friend of the inspectorate , despite his proposal to cut it to a third of its current size , and he has created pandemonium . |
| 3 | And it was seldom his tunes failed to draw the odd penny from a shopkeeper 's pocket or , indeed , a bottle from the publican to sustain him to the next village . |
| 4 | All behaviouristic theories of cognition are viciously third-personal , where that expression signifies , first , that they can not be applied to the first-person perspective and , second that our ability to apply them to the third person really rests on our bringing to bear first-person knowledge : as with rats in mazes , where my plain and unreduced apprehension of the rat 's environment enables me to see its grasp of that environment in terms of its behaviour within it . |
| 5 | In 1697 the presbytery being informed by the minister and ruling elder of Kilvarow that Janet NcKalman in Brockachach , Angus Brown in Scarabus , John McVurich in Achtawilling and Milcolm McIllvoil in Grundart doe use charms and divination The Presbytery appoint Allan McDugald their officer to summond them to the next dyet of the Presbytery at Kilchoman . |
| 6 | In 1697 the presbytery being informed by the minister and ruling elder of Kilvarow that Janet NcKalman in Brockachach , Angus Brown in Scarabus , John McVurich in Achtawilling and Milcolm McIllvoil in Grundart doe use charms and divination The Presbytery appoint Allan McDugald their officer to summond them to the next dyet of the Presbytery at Kilchoman . |