Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [pers pn] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ God has not bestowed talent on me for me to dance attendance on a woman , and thereby waste my youth … . ’ |
| 2 | May I urge each and everyone of you to show support and consideration to all your colleagues and to the Society , be positive in your thinking and openminded in your views . |
| 3 | The difficult part about this one is that people all have odd shaped heads , now and you find that if you put them on too high they squidge off like that , and you 've got to think of bandaging an egg basically , if you had an egg with a little hole in one end and you 've got to put a bandage round you 'd have to put it very carefully round the widest bit would n't you for it to stay firm and that 's the secret , everyone 's heads different and as you put it round you 've got to see where you can get it , where , sometimes it 's over the ears , sometimes it 's above the ears according to the peoples ' shaped , different shaped heads everyone 's different , anything else ? |
| 4 | ‘ We ought none of us to lose sight of the fact that human beings count far more than institutions or procedures or precedents , and we ought always to be willing , given justification , to sacrifice the latter to the former . ’ |
| 5 | Far be it for me to mention Huntingdon district council but that is one which |
| 6 | But far be it for us to shed crocodile tears over the bruised egos of our male counterparts . |
| 7 | Has the Douglas aught for me to offer Edward ? ’ |
| 8 | She would not put it past him to use force . |
| 9 | " What business is it of yours to make insinuations against me , I 'd like to know , eh ? |
| 10 | Far be it from me to give Mr Major advice , but I would suggest that insults towards any of these people , such as his recent attacks on ‘ froth and bubble ’ Lord Tebbit , will backfire . |
| 11 | Far be it from me to criticize comments made in the heat of the moment , which should be understood for what they are , cries of unendurable suffering , a passionate outburst of all-too-comprehensible anguish . |
| 12 | Far be it from us to condone tax evasion . |