Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then has more chance of meeting females and is better equipped to overpower them in mating fights . |
| 2 | Dear Rothenstein , Now that the Mexican president has provided you with the beak and talons of an Aztec eagle you may perhaps feel better equipped to face me in open contest . |
| 3 | He swung the gun upwards on his mount and was obviously set to cut me in half with his next pass when the knifehilt appeared in his chest , lodged deep between two bandoliers . |
| 4 | You 're only meant to take them in small quantities now . |
| 5 | It looks through the buildings which make up English towns and cities at the processes of life which produced and used them , and so attempts to explain them in human terms . |
| 6 | When he finally decided to publish it in 1678 , he defended its form by comparing the tactics of the hunt for souls with the way in which a fowler must whistle to attract birds , and a fisherman must tickle trout before he can clasp them . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | And the immune system normally functions to protect us in this way , and is regulated in such a manner that it does not attack bits of oneself , but only legitimate foreign targets , and thereby is our ally . |
| 9 | Are you still going to love her in ten , or twenty , years ’ time ? ’ |
| 10 | No doubt , having aired these feelings well in public he will be exerting pressure behind the scenes to ensure there is no further need to repeat them in open audience . |
| 11 | He also wanted to dress her in warm wraps , soft furs and the finest of leather boots . |
| 12 | In a letter to his mother he explained that ‘ seeing God had so often heard his most humble petitions , and had delivered him out of many most eminent dangers of soul and body , and had brought his family out of most desperate calamities , he should now seek to serve Him in such a calling ’ . |
| 13 | In my own department , I should say that , although some members still believe that literature is best studied in isolation , looking simply at ‘ the words on the page ’ , most of us now like to contextualise it in some way , often historically , and are inclined to ask students to read some texts which are not ‘ literature ’ in the conventional sense . |
| 14 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
| 15 | Once a routine of breastfeeds is established the mother can then choose to eliminate them in gradual succession . |
| 16 | And there was a vigour about him , a brightness of eye , an easiness about the way he held himself , that almost seemed to threaten her in some indefinable way . |
| 17 | He never forgot how it had once been , never seemed to regard her in any other way but as the person who had cared for him and loved him without reservation . |
| 18 | He expected Caterina to be there to tell him that Rosalba absolutely refused to meet him in such compromising circumstances and considered him a blackguard and a monster even to suggest such an assignation . |
| 19 | The lovely Polish mezzo Stefania Toczyska , who had three arias of her own , as well as joining Carreras in duets from Cavalleria Rusticana , Il Trovatore and Carmen , was also permitted a single encore before she quietly disappeared to leave him in sole charge . |