Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | These inner faculties provide both the ability to reasonably organise one 's daily survival in time and also the means by which God is known . |
| 2 | I put forward the idea to Mme Bluot that , rather than sit either side of a table , reminding Didier of school and his failure to keep up , he and I would do better to talk down by the river , in the park , even in the Café du Coin . |
| 3 | And as he climbed into the car and started the chilled engine , he had to make a very strong effort indeed to close the door on the compartment of his mind where Marjorie belonged and open wide the door to careful logical thinking about the project and this newest complication . |
| 4 | I want I want there 's some there 's some and I know just the answer to the question . |
| 5 | Now that was true until the late sixties early seventies and of course er you find there the election to the o to the White House of one Richard Milhous Nixon , conservative Republican er a man who was not above hiring gangsters and burglars to do his work for him , and this produced a reaction and if you read the , the presidential literature of the nineteen seventies you will find the opposite , you will find er political scientists , all American , er demanding reforms of the American system , not to make the president more powerful but to make the president less powerful . |
| 6 | Sometimes supposed rewards and punishers do exactly the opposite to that which is intended . |