Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Maori once regarded the dolphin as some kind of God or influence to direct them to things they wanted to know . |
| 2 | We must learn to see our anxiety symptoms as signals that we are under stress and learn to cope with and control these signals through our efforts and not simply mask or try to ignore them with tranquillizers . |
| 3 | It is a paradox — one of the many paradoxes of mysticism — that even though mystics insist that their experiences are radically ineffable , many of the great mystics have felt compelled to write them down and to try to communicate them to others . |
| 4 | This is not always easy ; we become skilled at using professional jargon and expect to hear it from others , but if we believe that people who use services should be involved in planning , then it is important that the language we use can be understood . |
| 5 | She knows people and tried to dazzle me with names . |
| 6 | He knew Blanche was nervous by her uncharacteristic air of distraction and tried to calm her with compliments about her appearance . |
| 7 | This leads to senior officers and their departments becoming increasingly secretive about their work and refusing to discuss it with others who might offer a better sense of judgement . |
| 8 | As a result they are less willing to accept the increasing costs caused by disruption and seek to recover them through claims . |
| 9 | Once people overcome their fears about computers and begin to use them in telecottages , they acquire their own equipment . |
| 10 | ‘ Think yourselves lucky , ’ Kadan observed as he dumped the bedding and equipment that he had scavenged on their behalf on the grass and began to sort it into piles . |
| 11 | It is said to end the days of peeling soggy wallpaper off the wall and having to trim it with scissors or a knife . |
| 12 | And we 're going to take some perfectly ordinary facets of life and try to address them in terms of what they should mean to the Christian believer . |
| 13 | Somehow you have to play devil 's advocate against your presentation and try to knock it to pieces . |
| 14 | She stayed under a side table in the front room until in 1925 my own dog ‘ Nip ’ , a terrier , took a dislike to this strange animal with glaring eyes and proceeded to tear her to pieces . |
| 15 | They treat the physical body of the human individual as a naturally existing unit separate from all others and proceed to take it to pieces . |
| 16 | It was not held , and the decision does not involve , that when a body of trustees receive income of the trust estate not taxed at the source and proceed to distribute it among beneficiaries , they are not assessable to Income Tax and are bound to pay over the income to the beneficiaries without deduction , leaving it to the Revenue to pursue the beneficiaries . |
| 17 | And influencing to do it without alternatives we 're gon na have when we 're managers . |
| 18 | Mr Morrison and his group can play their part by learning for themselves the full complexity of the problem and trying to convey it to Irish-Americans who see Irish unity as the only answer . |
| 19 | Course content has been selected to give graduates the necessary knowledge , skills and experience to equip them for careers in software development , application systems development , and in using computer systems to further organizational goals . |
| 20 | When he walked in the stable door accompanied by his usual aroma , the foal fastened her ears to the back of her neck and attempted to attack him with feet and teeth ! |