Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took me to twenty to stand into a half crouch and reach up for the bolt . |
| 2 | A week later , poor Walsh was involved in another traumatic final over as Pakistan despatched him for 14 to win off the final ball . |
| 3 | Having turned his back on what he considered to be the sophistry , deception and compromise of bourgeois culture and bourgeois politics , in favour of the clarity and ideological certainty of what proved to be an unrealistic sectarian politics , force of circumstances compelled him after 1934 to engage in the compromising task of cooperative politics . |
| 4 | So closely did Burrows identify with Venizelos that the Greek statesman invited him in 1916 to act as the ‘ semi-official ’ representative in London of his breakaway provisional government in Salonika . |
| 5 | He contracted with him in 1775 to come to the capital , and put him with M. Francoeur , to conduct [ battre la mesure ] . |
| 6 | As he pressed eagerly forward , his long beard streaming In the wind and rain , two Spanish friars snapped at his heels , still desperately trying to persuade him in Latin to die in the faith ; they continued to exhort him at the stake , where , according to Foxe , he lifted up his eyes to heaven , as he held his offending hand in the fire , and died using the words of Stephen : ‘ Lord Jesus receive my spirit . ’ |
| 7 | The book might , in its day , have served as a poetic manifesto for the Movement — a sort of critical defence of the Angry Young Poet — but events were to take another turn , leading him in 1968 to settle in the United States for twenty years ; to produce , on his return , Under Briggflats ( 1989 ) , a critical history of British poetry since 1960 . |
| 8 | His widow struggled to run the business herself until her brother , who had established a dry-goods store in Knoxville , Tennessee , persuaded her in 1865 to emigrate with the children . |
| 9 | True , they had been vassals of China for nine long centuries — but had n't their hearts " like iron and stone " enabled them at last to throw off the Chinese yoke when the Tang dynasty crumbled ? |