Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cassie wondered hazily whether in Johnny 's book it would be considered all right to force himself on the other sort of girl , whoever she may be ! |
| 2 | But not for the Americans , nor the British who were not bombed heavily enough to prevent them from turning the experience into a basis for a cosy national myth . |
| 3 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 4 | For her latest exhibition , Oulton has gone even further to distance herself from Old Master traditions and concepts of Englishness . |
| 5 | Irony in Estella 's true background after Pip has tried so hard to distance himself from the lower classes and she turns out to have come from them . |
| 6 | They went to big hotels as if determined never again to experience anything like this house wedding in all their mortal lives . |