Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pers pn] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , she had no means of recognising them and to wade through three hundred-odd pages in search of some unidentified reference would be a formidable task and probably not worth the effort . |
| 2 | And what more practical way of repaying them than to ensure that their own little seedling of bonheur had time to sprout and shoot , to root and burgeon ? |
| 3 | the contract expressly gives the customer the right to return any goods within seven days of receiving them and to cancel the agreemnent . |
| 4 | The best programs allow the teacher to gain basic skills in using them and to hand them over to pupils after a short introduction . |
| 5 | Thus the extreme subjectivism of , for example , the novels of Virginia Woolf , belongs within the same formation as the economic interventionism of Keynes , who wanted not only to preserve the economic system by rationalizing it but to do this so that , within that achieved stability , the real processes of civilized life could be extended , undisturbed . |