Example sentences of "[vb base] to [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 How many birds did my true love send to me on the twelfth day of Christmas ?
2 I build to it during the lost-in-the-wood speech and then it starts a bit uncertainly and then they really get it and it hits the show like a trumpet solo .
3 The issue is even more complicated in the world of sound recording , because we can not pick up a record and listen to it in the same way that we can pick up a book and read it .
4 Then , picking up a rifle that had been give to me by the French Commandos , I joined the others , lining up in the darkness at the edge of the wood preparing to move off .
5 You get to it from the cliff-top . ’
6 I notice I refer to him in the past tense .
7 It is the students who refer to it as the black magic course .
8 ‘ Experts refer to it as the post-modernistic simulacrum , although I believe Knudsen himself thinks of it as fantasy realism , ’ he returned blandly .
9 We talk to him about the inner turmoil he had been feeling during his long drought and about his high hopes for the future .
10 For she would carry on with her chores and talk to them at the same time .
11 Whether developments in Europe since the Second World War have wrought the sort of constitutional change brought about by the emergence of the Dominions after the First World War , raises exactly this question and we turn to it in the next chapter .
12 Anny Evason 's atmospheric evocation of the Piazza del Erbe , with its salamis , live chickens , fruit barrow and cafe tables , is spectacularly wrecked as the young bloods go to it in the first of Terry King 's convincing fights .
13 IF YOU 'VE GOT ANY PROBLEMS WITH WINDOWS OR WITH ANY MAJOR WINDOWS APPLICATION , WRITE TO HIM AT THE USUAL ADDRESS .
14 IF YOU 'VE GOT ANY PROBLEMS WITH WINDOWS OR WITH ANY MAJOR WINDOWS APPLICATION , WRITE TO HIM AT THE USUAL ADDRESS .
15 If anyone would like to share their story with other readers , whether it 's happy , sad , amusing or just a bit out of the ordinary , then please write to us at the usual address .
16 I write to you in the full possession of my faculties and not as a madman but as the brother you know .
17 If the events in each of his series did happen or could have happened , they come to us with the optimistic tone , the promise of a happy ending , which we expect of the classic adventure story .
18 We pray to you for the mastered will ,
19 We pray to you for the quiet mind ,
20 We pray to you for the stalwart faith ,
21 We pray to you for the enlightened imagination ,
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