Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt those whom we so recently persuaded to seek their bread elsewhere are hungry because they are idle , vicious , and ill-conditioned and think it easier to rob such innocent and harmless passers-by as I than to toil in the fields . ’ |
| 2 | In a funny way , it helped me a lot to find that there were people worse off than me and to learn through the callers that there were a lot of different ways of being strong . |
| 3 | Since October 1921 military detachments had been sent out to the local villages to billet in them and to insist on the tax in kind ( shades of expropriation by force in the period of War Communism ) . |
| 4 | It sometimes takes more courage to say no , I do n't want to you than to get into the fight yeah . |
| 5 | But would n't it have been a good idea to ask a relative or neighbour to go with her or to look after the children who were not going to receive attention ? |
| 6 | Mark and I went down to Yorkshire on Saturday morning to stay with an old University friend of mine and to go to the Bedale Point-to-Point with a group of people . |
| 7 | Line B , however , disambiguates line A. From line B we learn that the " thin thing " is a " tent for dwelling in " , i.e. a tent from the viewpoint of its occupants , a curtain that is both horizontal and vertical , and spread out not to hide the one who spreads it but to serve as a covering for those under it . |
| 8 | For example , on high policy common opinion said that there was nothing for it but to stay in the ERM . |
| 9 | They were brought up to respect us and to go to a policeman when they were in trouble . |