Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] [adj] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their mother had warned them to beg for forgiveness when their turn came to pray to their great-grandfather 's spirit before the altar , and it seemed certain to Lan 's ten-year-old mind that if she and her brothers had angered their father so deeply they must also have offended the spirits of their illustrious ancestors too . |
| 2 | It 's passable , he says , and it leads direct to Tmjillo . |
| 3 | Conversely , a golfer occasionally has a phase when the hole really seems larger and it seems possible to hole almost every putt . |
| 4 | His business contacts were being checked , but it seemed unlikely to Azadi that any of them would have been in a position to spirit the shipowner away at a moment 's notice . |
| 5 | This recalls the sequence at several civitas capitals , including Cirencester and Exeter , but it remains unique to date at the small towns . |
| 6 | But it remains prone to generalizations : ‘ we share a common root as women … capitalism , imperialism and racism are symptoms of male supremacy — sexism ’ ( 1970 : xxix , xxxix ) . |