Example sentences of "to [noun] [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling somewhat naked in the bitter winter 's chill , he had decided to pitch up to his shirt maker in Jermyn Street , his hatter in St James 's and his tailor in Savile Row to deck himself out in a manner which Solomon in all his glory would have found intimidating . |
| 2 | Crime and Punishment takes its place in a perfectly obvious and open fashion among the international classics of naturalism ( or realism ) , and it is the first of his novels to do so : the earlier and great book The House of the Dead walks so close beside personal history as to rule itself out in this connection ; formally it is a freak , so I argued , a quasi-novel ; and as regards fact and fiction , since he is recounting not ‘ prophesying events ’ , Dostoevsky can not have found much in the Dead House to get excited about . |
| 3 | There 's nothing they love more than an interesting little family tragedy , or a nice little disease to muck themselves up with . ’ |
| 4 | Yeah , he wants to buy that bit of land , he said I do n't care if I have to mortgage myself up to the hills he said ! |
| 5 | RYAN GIGGS has to content himself again with being Wales ' not-so-secret weapon here tonight . |
| 6 | We decided not to wait and to content ourselves instead with the street exhibition that day . |
| 7 | ‘ a museum to the depression , failing to hype itself back to prosperity in the fashion of Glasgow and Newcastle … stuck in the past , in a timewarp of Beatlemania and class solidarity . ’ |
| 8 | She was out every evening , sometimes staying away all night and coming back in the afternoon only to tart herself up for the next evening away . |