Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For any moment of weakness in the fortunes of a great house — the minority of William the Conqueror , the early years of Fulk le Réchin — provided the perfect opportunity for castellans to establish their hereditary rights , or to exercise for their own benefit prerogatives which had hitherto brought profit to the princes . |
| 2 | Or to look at it another way — we are little men , we do n't know the ins and outs of the matter , there are wheels within wheels , etcetera — it wold be presumptuous of us to interfere with the designs of fate or even of kings . |
| 3 | The removal of this will mean that thousands of residents will be unable to obtain the legal assistance in matters like arranging family visits or to look into their own circumstances . |
| 4 | Dialogues are carried on to tell the reader something he must know , or to infuse into him some explanations of a writer . |
| 5 | Mr asked why we should close our homes and let private homes profit erm , if people choose either to go into the private sector or to stay into their own homes , what are we supposed to do tell them they 've got no choice but to keep our substandard homes going ? |
| 6 | ‘ It needs a born Highlander to understand aright our Scottish Highlanders ’ , goes on JTR , ‘ and to gather from them all the lore they know , so as to give us pictures that will live on in after ages . |
| 7 | they provide an opportunity for students to explain their intentions and values and to comment on their own performance , thus contributing to the collaborative nature of the assessment procedure . |
| 8 | He had no idea that Finch was trying to get him to stop being an accompanist and to work on his own . |
| 9 | This is always a surprising development from the point of view of those close to her , but if you are faced with this reaction in your elderly parent , or any other that seems strange but harmless , tread softly , and accept the fact that she must be allowed to grieve and to adjust in her own way . |
| 10 | Newspaper correspondents and representatives of the Ministry of Information were frequent visitors to Burma , and we did our best to give them what news we had , to tell them about government hopes and plans , and to extract from them any news and wisdom they had to give us . |
| 11 | His reaction to his new situation was perhaps predictable — he decided to travel again , both for interest and to reflect on his own future . |
| 12 | Those giving papers were asked to emphasize humans as meaning-makers , rather than humans as biological primates , and to elucidate from their own ethnographic experience the indigenous meanings of concepts relevant for an understanding of human interpersonal and , wherever applicable , intersocietal relations . |
| 13 | It is now necessary to draw some of these strands together and reach some general conclusions about the merit of the Essex project , and to derive from them some prescriptions for action for anyone seeking to enhance library provision in similar ways . |
| 14 | Yet the capabilities of mature mammals and birds to fend for themselves , to care for their offspring , and to interact with their own and other species , far surpass those of the 12-month-old baby or the anencephalic with whom they are so frequently bracketed . |
| 15 | And John meantime seeks always to dismiss me as incompetent and neurotic ( probably , as people wiser than me , such as his own lawyer , say , he does this to suit his own ends and to give himself a good press and to live within his own fantasies and eccentricities . ) |
| 16 | ‘ Through Highlander 's programs , many people have been encouraged to find beauty and pride in their own ways , to speak their own language without humiliation , and to learn of their own power to accomplish self-defined goals through social movements built from the bottom up . ’ |
| 17 | If the death of our parents helps us to think about death in a constructive way and to prepare for our own , the experience is neither negative nor morbid but of positive value and importance . |
| 18 | I think that there 's a lot for your Lordship to read but I think it might be beneficial in the long run , it was certainly , our experience has been that it certainly would take time in the long run but to deal with it this way . |