Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Gave him a stiff sentence in a House of Correction to teach him better ways .
2 A foal requires about one pint of colostrum to give it sufficient antibiotics to help fight neonatal infections .
3 In order to ease it many diversions are tried .
4 They begged him to desist , in order to give them some words of edification , and for two consecutive hours he proceeded to give them excellent exhortations , while at the same time never ceasing his writing — and all the while what he was writing was not the same as what he was speaking .
5 A highly intelligent and beautiful French television journalist , Christine Ockrent , came to Baghdad to interview him some months before the United Nations deadline for withdrawal from Kuwait .
6 DENNIS GREENE , Wycombe 's £15,000 signing from Chelmsford in February , scored all his team 's goals in the 4–0 win at Altrincham to put them three points clear of Colchester in the race for the GM Vauxhall Conference title , writes Peter Ernest .
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