Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [subord] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's thoughtful for Matt , she realised while hastening to keep up with his long strides , and as they left the shadow of the bush she said , ‘ I feel as if I 'm stepping out of one world and into another . ’ |
| 2 | As Becky drew her bath , she thought about Daphne 's words , delivered with humour and affection but still highlighting the problems she faced when trying to cross the established social barriers for more than a few moments . |
| 3 | And how can you bring this positive word into the examples you gave as answers to question three ? |
| 4 | For what reply could we give if asked to explain the meaning of " fact " ? |
| 5 | When the group failed to contact their fighter escort , they turned as planned to bomb the secondary target , the docks at Kiel . |
| 6 | She could have argued that if they went as planned to farm in another country , nobody would know about her past . |
| 7 | Generally , they did not agree with the style of campaigning witnessed on several major campuses , which they viewed as attempts to copy the ‘ bourgeois ’ elections of capitalist countries . |
| 8 | The badly damaged aircraft limped back to Sicily where it crashed whilst attempting to land and was destroyed . |
| 9 | Like Schleiermacher , Coleridge rejected any attempt to prove the truth of religion by appeal to rational , philosophical proofs : this seemed to him completely to miss the character of faith , which he described as having to do , not with theory , but with life . |
| 10 | They would wait silently by the roadside for a victim and could only he identified if forced to speak , for then they would emit a loud bray . |