Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the first furrow was straight , example and actual guidance helped to persuade the ploughman who followed after him to draw the other furrows in the stetch in like manner : if the first furrow was bent nothing could prevent the others from being less than perfect also . |
| 2 | ‘ 'Morning , ’ he said cheerfully , as she walked towards him to take the proffered bottle . |
| 3 | The news that something was amiss quickly spread to the rest of the group , who gathered round him to hear the latest developments . |
| 4 | As in 1813 the people looked to us to destroy the Napoleonic terror , so today in 1943 they look to us to destroy the terror of National Socialism . |
| 5 | Maxim reached around him to pull the front door shut and ushered him down to the car . |
| 6 | Sex having been invented this way ( and later used to help the individual to develop disease resistance and the species to evolve more quickly ) a new problem arose : when an egg and a sperm fused during sex , a battle ensued between them to monopolise the resulting offspring . |
| 7 | The fall of France , in June 1940 , appeared to him to present the ideal opportunity for the redistribution of her overseas possessions . |
| 8 | And waited for her to make the next move . |
| 9 | But nor was it every day that in broad daylight — given that the light was n't all that good — that she stood in what was now quite heavy rain getting soaked while her amorous swain waited for her to make the next move . |
| 10 | When he motioned for her to take the wooden spoon from him she did so , avoiding touching him at all costs . |
| 11 | He said that a solid body moving through a fluid medium such as air was in fact propelled by the air , which was cleft by the moving body and then rejoined behind it to provide the forward drive , for there could be no such thing as a vacuum , that is , mere nothingness . |
| 12 | Cardinal Pironio , from the Pontifical Council for the Laity , wrote to them to convey the good wishes of the Holy Father . |