Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But that I 'm so glad you 've come here to see to his personal effects this way ?
2 For , while Léopold Senghor and Houphouet-Boigny were able to communicate with their political colleagues in Paris , they had nevertheless not forgotten how to communicate with their own people .
3 It would not allow Palestinian goods to be exported westwards to compete against its own produce in the European market .
4 ‘ Throughout his eight and a half years as Labour leader he has shown the sort of courage in reforming the party which few politicians are capable of — and which , it must be said , John Major has never been called on to demonstrate in his effortless , virtually unchallenged glide through the great offices of state . ’
5 So I went to visit the plants for him , went to check , in his memory who can do so no longer , whether the recurrent spring miracle of the Welsh mountains was still taking place now that the man who had seemed almost to stand for its yearly renewal had gone .
6 Emma Samms ( above ) even had one leg chopped off to get into her bridal gown
7 For Bernadette Quli , that worry turned into a nightmare when the woman she had taken on to look after her six-month-old daughter , Farrah , fled to Ireland with the baby .
8 I am sorry that it has taken longer to respond to your recent telephone call than I had expected , but I have now examined all the papers relating to this matter and have re-visited Captains Road .
9 Three hundred years after the events , our Irish nurses were still being exhorted not to consort with their British patients but to remember Drogheda and Wexford .
10 Romania still has not learned how to look after its own .
11 At the point when he began to enjoy himself , he was sent off to go through it all again in Australia , in order that the Commonwealth could be seen to have played some part in his education .
12 Addicted only to love for their fellow man , these needle guerillas know that all life is precious
13 I told my mother where I had been without explanation as to why I had chosen not to go to our own church , and she said nothing .
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