Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adj] and [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are a long way from liberating the woman from the artificial status of woman artist , which only serves to segregate her further and prevents her working as an individual professional artist , regardless of her political stance — do we call a man a male artist ? |
| 2 | She wanted to reach out and hold him to her , to draw him close and comfort him , but it was too late now . |
| 3 | James and the Nazarean hierarchy send their own missionaries in his wake , to undo his preaching and compromise him with his own converts — for Paul , by now , is preaching something very different from what the Nazareans themselves , under Jesus 's brother , have sanctioned . |
| 4 | I wanted to keep her warm and handle her as much as possible in preparation for training . |
| 5 | He comes away from the roots and I swing the rod over to my right , parallel with the water , to keep him low and prevent him from splashing at the surface . |
| 6 | The copper map had evidently been fastened to the concrete plinth through the medium of some nineteen-thirties metallurgical technology which is sadly lost to us today , because it ruggedly defied even the most enterprising attempts to prise it free and bear it off to the smelting pot . |
| 7 | The Citation rolled slowly on to its left side as Duncan fought to keep it flying and to keep it away from the airliner . |
| 8 | Were all very concerned to keep it open and keep it flourishing . |
| 9 | And she used to count us all and share it all out . |
| 10 | He had seen her passionate anger and had wanted to kiss her senseless , had heard her lie to him and had wanted to shake the truth out of her , had almost caused her to swoon and had wanted to hold her close and tell her he would n't allow anything to hurt her again — all in the space of about half a minute . |
| 11 | He wanted to reach out and wrap her in his arms , to hold her tight and comfort her , but he had been wrong before . |
| 12 | If the rules are inadequate , then the answer is to get them right and enforce them , not to rely on equitable principles which are uncertain in their application to a modern market . ’ |
| 13 | Emeralds were sometimes used in their natural form as hexagonal crystals , but their comparative softness made it a simple matter to rub them smooth and set them en cabochon . |
| 14 | I tried very hard to get it right and satisfy her . |
| 15 | She had to say something fast and make it convincing . |
| 16 | Then you 'd be plucking the sides to make it tidy and carrying it to make a round top sort of a roof on it . |