Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We intend to work just as creatively to negotiate a convention on climate change — a framework of action for the nations of the world . |
| 2 | we shall need to interrupt just very briefly to move a couple of things out . |
| 3 | If we 're going to go in and make a positive impact in certain parts of the region , erm then both my staff and myself and our colleagues who are working in the arts in the region have got to pull even harder together to make sure that we can make the partnership between us bureaucrats and the artist really be as effective as possible for the broadest range of the community . |
| 4 | There has , then , in the higher education curriculum , to be major elements of immediate experience and personal responsibility even in the fields where students are having to work extraordinarily hard simply to acquire formal knowledge . |
| 5 | Of course now he did n't have to walk quite so far to do his searching ; but a similar kind of dedication was still required of him , for The Bar contained in a way the streets of the whole city , there were men there from all the different parts of it . |
| 6 | Later , in 1908 , they had to plan once again how to combine their joint ideal of a free domestic relationship with the solitude that Edward 's nature demanded as a price to be paid for his self-discovery as a writer . |
| 7 | Alice had to breathe really hard not to cross the road there , for although the old woman always smiled , the hallway behind her was dark brown and went on forever . |
| 8 | Taken as a whole , the 1950s can be seen as a decade in which everyone had to work very hard just to keep the District on an even keel : it reflects great credit on all concerned that , in statistical terms , the decline of the early fifties was halted so that ultimately an expansionist phase could begin . |
| 9 | He was staggered that he had to look almost straight up to find it . |
| 10 | But now he was cuddling me and whispering in my ear with helpless pleading , " Hold me — hold me — " Suddenly I was hugging him with all my strength ; our bodies were strung tight together and we were kissing each other 's cheeks with little frantic kisses — we could n't bear to draw apart even enough to find each other 's lips . |
| 11 | He was almost whispering and Dalziel had to lean even further forward to catch the words . |
| 12 | Whereas in most databases you have to go to quite a lot of effort to create the linked structure , in Delta Five it is expected that your databases will have this structure , and you have to work quite hard not to conform ! |
| 13 | ‘ We have to work very hard not to treat the very frail old people as children . |
| 14 | You have to walk that far like to get the bus and then get in and then walk back home , it 's not too far . |