Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pron] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one knew how to go about it the Fall was reversible . |
| 2 | Now both of them were choking with their laughter as Mick ended , ‘ It got so bad that they used to wait for it every Sunday night and try to smother me with a pillow . |
| 3 | It is Davie 's contention that this view is quite wrong : there are a great many outstandingly talented British poets , including Charles Tomlinson , C H Sisson , Elaine Feinstein and others ( Davie , as distinguished a poet as any of his subjects , modestly excludes his own work ) who do not answer to this description , and one purpose of Under Briggflats is to claim for them the attention they have often been denied ; in some cases , indeed , to rescue them from scandalous neglect . |
| 4 | Still others are there to show their sympathy and respect , but also to see for themselves the spectacle of a city 's mass grief … |
| 5 | A delegation from Europe 's largest hotel , the Izmailovo in Moscow , recently visited the Moat House International Hotel , Glasgow , to see for themselves the operating standards of a western hotel . |
| 6 | This has been configured so that visitors to the Museum can see in the cockpit and operate the flying controls to see for themselves the effects of stick on elevators and rudder . |
| 7 | Winston sent out a party of men and women from public life to see for themselves the horrors of Belsen . |
| 8 | LENTA organised parties of business people and senior ILEA personnel to see for themselves the achievements of the Boston Compact . |
| 9 | We want you to see for yourself the subtlety and awareness that can be wrought from the earth , to give style and grace to your everyday living . |
| 10 | In April the Prince went off to the Kalahari Desert for a few days with Sir Laurens Van der Post , to see for himself the society that his friend had written and talked about so much . |
| 11 | He will then be able to see for himself the resignation , if not quiet contempt , with which his customers regard the service for which he and his managers must hold themselves fully accountable . |
| 12 | Will my hon. Friend therefore give me an undertaking that he will visit Dartford early in the new year , or on Christmas day if need be , to see for himself the damage that has been done to our river and how much has been lost ? |
| 13 | The jury , sitting in court 4 at Bristol , were sent home early by Judge Overend , so that he could drive to the bridge to see for himself the spot at which the accident happened . |
| 14 | Each group needs to see for itself the importance of indirect and hard-to-define influences . |
| 15 | In his first term he had to write for him an essay on the art of poetry . |
| 16 | It was at that time he wrote the first of a series of Scots novels which were to secure for him a place in the history of literature . |
| 17 | Due to lack of governmental or any other official support this unique and valuable organisation has had to suspend its training activities temporarily , whilst trying to secure for itself a sound and permanent financial basis for the future . |
| 18 | The County Council as I 'm aware was not actually consulted on these particular applications , and therefore I 'm not really in a position to be able to comment as what the County Council 's position . |
| 19 | In actuality it was the poorer peasants who grumbled louder and suffered more from taxation , as Yakovlev was to discover for himself a year later in Tambov guberniia . |
| 20 | The home provides a safe and secure place for children to ask their biggest questions about faith and to discover for themselves the love of God in Jesus Christ . |
| 21 | In this way , pupils will have the opportunity to discover for themselves the reasons for their beliefs , values and opinions . |
| 22 | It naturally combines with the view that individuals should develop freely to find for themselves the form of the good which they wish to pursue in their life . |
| 23 | My bedroom , for instance , had a ghost that used to come through it every night — it was n't a visible ghost but it was audible — and I used to see the door open at the other end of the room when I was in bed and then would hear this ‘ clunk clunk ’ … . |
| 24 | ‘ Therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls ; it tolls for thee . ’ |
| 25 | ( And then when they 're older , a mother tends to worry about what the reason for |
| 26 | ‘ Everything will be happening legally so kids wo n't have to worry about what the police are going to stop them doing on the M25 or wherever . |
| 27 | They do n't seem to worry about anything a lot of these youngsters today . |
| 28 | To write of you a story of such mervayle |
| 29 | And , Sir , I come to crave of you a boon , that you will give me Rodrigo of Bivar to be my husband , with whom I shall hold myself well married , and greatly honoured ; for certain I am that his possessions will one day be greater than those of any man in your dominions . |
| 30 | My mother soon began to drum into me the notion that I was different because of my eyesight , and therefore that I should not expect too much out of life . |