Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And how could she , always so proud , have come to ask a stranger to write for her a private letter , even if her sight was becoming bad ? |
| 2 | It was at that time he wrote the first of a series of Scots novels which were to secure for him a place in the history of literature . |
| 3 | Due to lack of governmental or any other official support this unique and valuable organisation has had to suspend its training activities temporarily , whilst trying to secure for itself a sound and permanent financial basis for the future . |
| 4 | In actuality it was the poorer peasants who grumbled louder and suffered more from taxation , as Yakovlev was to discover for himself a year later in Tambov guberniia . |
| 5 | They do n't seem to worry about anything a lot of these youngsters today . |
| 6 | If we are ever to pass through what a shrewd American has named the ‘ moronic inferno ’ into what I call ‘ the oxyinoronic paradiso ’ , then responses from a deeper level are required . |
| 7 | To write of you a story of such mervayle |
| 8 | And , Sir , I come to crave of you a boon , that you will give me Rodrigo of Bivar to be my husband , with whom I shall hold myself well married , and greatly honoured ; for certain I am that his possessions will one day be greater than those of any man in your dominions . |
| 9 | She , speaking Slovene , had managed to understand their primitive Russian , and they were delighted to have found a civilian who was able to communicate with them a little , and who reminded them of their mothers . |
| 10 | But however , it raised my Curiosity very much : And happening to meet with her a Day or two afterwards , I begg 'd the Favour of seeing it ; which was readily granted . |
| 11 | ‘ I beg to differ with you a bit there . |
| 12 | Pitt is obviously a big fan of his girlfriend 's talent and says he hopes to work with her a lot : ‘ Genius is n't a good word , because it 's been so abused , but … ’ |
| 13 | You ca n't defy the world as you can your parents ; you have to work with it a little — and be polite to it . ’ |
| 14 | These rhetorical features seem , however , to suffer from being at odds with the rest of the passage , as if James wants us to catch in them a certain false emotionalism in the tone of the speaker . |
| 15 | But Stanislavskian actors are nevertheless concerned in rehearsal and other preparation time with tapping their own reservoirs of emotional memories to find within themselves a sophistication , subtlety or depth of emotional engagement so that in concentrating on the character 's actions , a wider , deeper range of emotions may be released . |
| 16 | When the bombs fell in the autumn the intellectuals were quick to celebrate the initiative and self-generated activity of the common people , and to discover within it a basis for a new reconciliation between patriotism and democracy . |
| 17 | The sight of it seemed to provoke in her a torrent of recrimination . |
| 18 | Nothing , however , can detract from the miracle that , on Christmas Day 1973 , people who lived in a state of enmity with one another on each side of the peace-line were strangely drawn together , jointly to celebrate the Christmas story and to find in it a message of love and forgiveness and of reconciliation . |
| 19 | For we still believe that our femaleness is a biological entity ; but it is this biology that a century ago wished to remove our clitoris and that continues now to impose upon us a desire that only functions in passive reaction to the actions of men , and that is as a result based in narcissism and masochism . |
| 20 | I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything . |
| 21 | Each corporation would tend to attract to itself a ‘ clientele ’ consisting of those preferring its particular payout ratio , but one clientele would be as good as another in terms of the valuation it would imply for firms . |
| 22 | It is very important to give children room to think for themselves and not to impose on them a restricting interpretation of truth . |
| 23 | So Coffin had to work on him a bit first to get him to think laterally . |
| 24 | We had to work on it a great deal . |
| 25 | ‘ So far he has not had the opportunity to appear to us a flexible and strong politician . ’ |
| 26 | It was Brian , chancing to come across it a few days later while looking for some envelopes , who said , ‘ Who on earth are all these people ? ’ |
| 27 | English Language , Literature , and History in the colleges was both similar to and different from these other modern disciplines ; similar in that , like them , it sought to create for itself a solid and autonomous identity ; different ( especially from the early decades of this century ) in that its predominantly classically-trained and often clerical academic proponents increasingly claimed for it a status well beyond that of any mere " discipline " or " knowledge subject " . |
| 28 | If I were to ask a school-teacher to choose for me a sample which she considered to be a fair cross-section of her pupils so that I could interview them for a survey , there would almost certainly be a personal bias in the sample given to me . |
| 29 | Robert Harris established his name many years ago as a designer of sound blue water cruising yachts , so it was no surprise when a couple tackled him in the late 1960s to design for them a small yacht that would take them from Canada to New Zealand in both comfort and safety . |
| 30 | For this purpose they appointed to serve under them a staff of foresters , carrying bows and arrows , for whom they were personally responsible , and who maintained themselves by levying contributions from the forest inhabitants . |