Example sentences of "of [pron] [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter grew up to know the value of money , and was taught by his caring , careful parents to save and be prudent in financial matters , and cautious of whom to trust in business . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't see so many people going in the opposite direction now , so I hope that 's a sign that we 've persuaded a few of them to stay in town and watch their local team . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It was good of you to get in touch with me , Simon , ’ she murmured as he hooked down the loft-ladder and she followed him up into the roof space . |
| 4 | It would be uncharacteristic of him to go in mid-term . |
| 5 | They had left the paddock gate open , and Joe had taken advantage of it to go in search of more of the nice green apples he remembered having enjoyed so much the previous day — but this time he did n't reach Jessica Turvey 's orchard ; he got himself trapped in the marsh . |
| 6 | This created the conditions which were to set the pattern of religious justification for strife for centuries to come , and there is little doubt that nearly all , if not all wars in historic time have had some kind of religion or ‘ god ’ put forward as requiring the human race , or parts of it to engage in bloodshed and misery . |
| 7 | Since the anthropological material forms an organic whole with the writings of Marx and Engels , and is important for everything they wrote , a somewhat arbitrary selection needs to be made of what to examine in detail . |
| 8 | This deficiency he shared with a whole crew of leaders of third-world or so-called ‘ non-aligned ’ countries , who like him had gained power because they were against foreign rulers , not because they had any idea of what to put in place of foreign rule . |