Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] [pron] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a pilot study has shown that if the available data is collected and sorted by computer , enough survives to enable something of the overall pattern to emerge , especially through comparison with the much more plentiful English data . |
| 2 | Such a complete reversal of her usual immunity only served to strip her of every vestige of confidence . |
| 3 | But the reality is that the court has not given to doctors any right that they did not previously have : it has merely declined to deprive them of a power which it is for them alone to exercise . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll see you at the weekend , then , ’ Leith said lightly , and was once more wanting to do something of a pugilistic nature to her employer when , just as though he lived there , he went to the door with Travis and saw him out . |
| 5 | The reader is also invited to ponder which of the two proofs gives him the greater personal satisfaction . |
| 6 | She must persuade him of her good intentions — for it had never crossed her mind that she would not repay him — but she must also try to convince him of the seriousness of her situation and persuade him to grant her a bit of leeway . |
| 7 | What influence I had with S.B. was now used to persuade him of the wisdom of this course . |
| 8 | The agency provided funds for a specifically approved line of research only , so Jones now decided to tell them of the new ideas . |
| 9 | He was an ungallant swine for deliberately not coming to her aid , but in truth he really wanted to see which of the likely lads , would dash forward . |
| 10 | There was no sign of infection , nor even scar to remind him of the accident . |
| 11 | She thought for a moment , then decided to tell him of the little house in Washington where she and Mama had lived before Mama married Papa — She wondered briefly what Dr Neil would have made of that story . |
| 12 | The Irish Government was resolutely determined to rid itself of the British system which had done so much harm to the economy . |