Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] and [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claudia who was all too aware of what was happening in France — foreign Jews rounded up , her own father hopelessly compromised , labour camps from which none returned — wrote urgently to Fairfax to come and get this man out of jail . |
| 2 | Demelza 's ad , which she wrote herself , read : ‘ Wanted , loving and caring grandparents for little Demelza to love and cherish this outgoing girl . ’ |
| 3 | If you can graft Licensing Bills and Land Valuation Bills and measures of that kind on the Finance Bill , what is to prevent you grafting on it , let us say , a Home Rule Bill — setting up an authority in Ireland to collect and dispense all the taxes of that country ? |
| 4 | From here he set out about 36 AD for Damascus to capture and punish those Nazarene who were claiming that Jesus was the Messiah expected . |
| 5 | ‘ I expect she 'll let you and Oliver come and stay some time . |
| 6 | The Maggot , who had lived long enough in the Bahamas to learn and relish all the important gossip , growled the verdict . |
| 7 | Yeah , he dragged me all the way to London to go and buy some beef . |
| 8 | It recommended that the honours course for full-time students should be four years in length , and it called on the DES to explore and resource such a departure — which was eventually to prove to be the pattern adopted . |
| 9 | He had sent for Philip who had raced up from Wales to coach and instruct this miraculous son in a great Shakespearian role to be performed in an Oxford college before an audience of West End luminaries ( Gielgud , Terence Rattigan ) : ‘ We worked on it line by line , hour after hour , into the early morning … |