Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] in [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | One reporter who came to interview him in this period noticed how he looked as if he might collapse from " lack of nourishment , insomnia and fatigue " , and an acquaintance described him thus : " His face was pale as baker 's bread … he smoked and between exhalations he hacked a dry , deathly smoker 's hack Eliot was cadaverous . " |
| 3 | The question seemed to amuse him in some way . |
| 4 | He ( among others ) perceived adolescent labour as an obstacle to efficiency not only because it lacked knowledge of employment opportunities and the ability to distinguish between the merits of different occupations , but also because its inherent ‘ adaptability ’ was ‘ wasted ’ ( always a key notion in National Efficiency circles ) by the ‘ haphazard ’ nature of the transition which left too many youths in dead-end jobs and failed to enrol them in any form of further education . |
| 5 | We felt that Navan Resources should have made earlier contact with us to let us know that there was gold here , before we had to hear it in that way , ’ Mary Catherine Heanue said . |
| 6 | ‘ And , to be fair to the boy , I possibly confused him , since when he very properly inquired as to whether or not I was a patient , I had to admit myself in some doubt on the point . ’ |
| 7 | It was as if he wanted to destroy her in some way . |
| 8 | In the Sixties , women had that kind of confidence and wanted to express themselves in that way . |
| 9 | He wanted to use me in some way . |
| 10 | I suppose the reason was one of policy really — they had the youngsters hooked and they wanted to keep them in that position by not rocking the boat . |
| 11 | Apart from anything else , she wanted to recompense him in some way , although she doubted he would accept a reward . |