By this little digression into Gascony, the Duke had an opportunity... to re-inforce himself with some particular Servants of his.

The basic function of the copula in Japanese is to predicate, adnominalize or adverbialize nouns.

We went through the whole agenda, from soup to nuts.

Vince will deny it now, but he was once a Vilmanian, meaning he was part of the multitude of hopelessly devoted diehard true-blue-'til-death-do-us-part fans who didn't live a single day without thanking the Lord for bringing into their rich or wretched existence Vilma Santos.