Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] to [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take a blank sheet of paper and write down everything that occurs to you about the word(s) you have chosen , giving yourself about ten minutes . |
| 2 | So nothing that happens to you in the course of your life can possibly change your genes , because they 've already been copied . |
| 3 | The rare gases take very little part in life 's processes ; and we need not discuss water vapour at too great length , even though many desert animals and plants , and some epiphytes ( plants that grow on the surface of other plants ) derive much or most of their water from water that floats to them on the air . |
| 4 | LIKI INK TH KUTI The small engine that attends to one after the act of excretion |
| 5 | There may be one scheme that applies to everyone in the organisation or there may be a variety of schemes for different grades of employee . |
| 6 | The wasted life and the wasted love that comes to me in the night and makes me cry out in pain . ’ |
| 7 | And thins to nothing but the wish I made |
| 8 | The fly , which has settled on my forehead and reads to me from the Sixth Book of the Aeneid , is the same fly which buzzes round the head of Virgil in Mantua . |
| 9 | ‘ Stephen 's determined to open a hotel chain and listens to me about the same amount . ’ |
| 10 | Lamech takes two wives , and boasts to them of the murder he has committed , outdoing Cain . |