Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [vb infin] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So amidst the doom and gloom that seems to cloud the the African horizon , we can see that aid does work and in the example I 've just given , that it works indeed for children . |
| 2 | The success which eluded her in the classroom did arrive but from an unexpected quarter . |
| 3 | Theridamas is supposed to be all that Persia stands for , even to the extent that he is ‘ the hope of Persia , and the very legs whereon our state doth lean as on a staff ’ . |
| 4 | While agreeing broadly with the England manager 's summing-up of the present Brazilian team , the thought did occur that in another footballing era he could have been describing an Italian side — brilliant in breakaways but giving nothing away at the back . |
| 5 | My soul did hang as in a pair of scales , sometimes up and sometimes down , now in peace and anon in terror . ’ |