Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] [pers pn] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the old slug 's vicious inheritance , Carson thought bitterly , to dump the money on me before I 'd had a chance to learn how to fight for it or to handle it and too late for it to be of any real use . |
| 2 | It is better to learn a small section thoroughly than to surface-read it and then have to go back to do the whole thing again . |
| 3 | If we do it correctly , the horse learns not only to be confident with us and to respect us but also to like us . |
| 4 | Noreen , frankly , wanted her cake and to eat it as well . |
| 5 | Two doors shut the glass away when it was not in use , as if to remind me that too much self-admiration was unacceptable . |
| 6 | I am — deliberately — ten minutes late , both for the sake of a dramatic entrance and to show them that frankly , my dears , I do n't give a damn . |
| 7 | Shoved into a seatette by a hostess who had been trained not to calm and charm passengers but to harm them and occasionally embalm them , I quickly settled into what would become my life for what seemed like more than a lifetime . |