Example sentences of "[subord] [to-vb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely it is better for them to strive to be literate than to engage themselves in the fruitless task of emulating the speech of the hearing . |
| 2 | ‘ No , no , ’ the Finnish detective said , shaking his head as if to rid himself of the last remnants of misunderstanding . |
| 3 | It was on the basis of this document that the Roman Church asserted its prerogative to create kings , as well as to establish itself as a temporal authority . |
| 4 | The station itself was built with massive stolidity as though to distance itself from the Georgian grace of the great imperial buildings near by . |
| 5 | Peter hesitated in the hall , not so much to eavesdrop as to prepare himself for a noiseless ascent of the stairs . |