Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [pers pn] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both of the novels a heroine is involved for committing herself to do something important enough only as itself for example , Elizabeth Bennet walks three fatiguing miles to Netherfield to pay a visit to her ill sister ; Fanny Price opposes her cousins ' attempts to include her in amateur theatricals . |
| 2 | He dropped Mr Hambro where he was , in the edge of the water , and planted a foot between his shoulders to drive him in deeper before he made off . ’ |
| 3 | And yet he took no steps to reintroduce it in later editions . |
| 4 | My heart , to love him ; my will , to do his will , my mind , to glorify him ; my tongue , to speak to him and of him ; my eyes to see him in all things ; my hands to bring whatever they touch to him ; my all only to be a real ‘ all ’ : because it is joined to him . |
| 5 | I can not promise a debate on it next week , but perhaps he will find his own opportunities to discuss it in greater detail . |
| 6 | Why should I require animals to join me in some mutual admiration society or even make them honorary members ? |
| 7 | If he could find convincing words to say it in one striking and memorable phrase , he might be truly on his way . |
| 8 | As a result , any attempt to explicate the theme of the sequence is bound to run into peculiar difficulties , although there have been various attempts to interpret it in Christian , symbolist or political terms . |
| 9 | It remained for the Spaniards to connect them in extended compositions and base them on secular songs as Cabezón did on the ‘ Canto del Caballero ’ and ‘ Guardame las vacas ’ or play them as so many Mass-movements and motets were even more incongruously played — on the lute . |
| 10 | At the same time Diana did not want her friends to see her in such a wretched , unhappy state . |
| 11 | This is when we started forming consumer groups and demanding watchdogs to protect us in this shopping jungle . |
| 12 | ‘ We are urging licensees to join us in encouraging sensible drinking because it in their own interests . ’ |
| 13 | Prost did to Mansell what Piquet had done to him in 1983 , and in winning the title he became the first man since Jack Brabham ( Aus ) in 1960 to defend the title successfully and one of only four men to win it in successive years , joining two other greats , Alberto Ascari ( Ita ) and Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) . |
| 14 | Different types of barrows and trucks lead children to use them in various ways . |
| 15 | You do n't have to declare the storage account in use , you can make it anything you want it to be , and you can mix and match your own rows to present them in any order . ’ |
| 16 | We invite all other CSCE member states to join us in this commitment to non-aggression . " |
| 17 | Well that 's interesting , because six women do the job in eight hours , and it would take eight women to do it in six hours . |
| 18 | A further problem was that it would be difficult for rescue services to locate us in these weather conditions . |
| 19 | For a long time it suited the others to have him in that job . |
| 20 | All attempts to please him in any other way are mere mockery , and insults to the things by which you endeavour to do so . |
| 21 | It is quite usual to find large joints of roast beef and pork for slicing on the delicatessen counter , but two of the more interesting meats to reach us in recent years have been smoked turkey and pastrami . |
| 22 | TOOL SAFETY Hints and tips on how to avoid injuries while working with hand and power equipment — plus advice on maintaining tools to keep them in top condition . |
| 23 | No , but we can make an effort , can we not , to persuade our European colleagues to join us in that . |