Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] and [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Institute regulations require that certificates for new members are presented at Divisional Meetings ( with the exception of members overseas ) , to enable them to meet socially and hopefully to take an active part in Divisional affairs . |
| 2 | I tried again and again to explain that an electric cooker needed a more powerful circuit than other equipment , but no-one would accept such an idea . |
| 3 | I tried again and harder to work and felt restless and uneasy . |
| 4 | I vowed there and then to give him his share of the money the day he set foot in England ; I wanted to be rid of all those Trumpers and their distracting problems once and for all . |
| 5 | I decided then and there to fail my O levels . |
| 6 | At last , when they had all gone home , I started woozily and happily to clear up . |
| 7 | The Dutch were probably right , to judge from a handwritten note de Gaulle gave Chancellor Konrad Adenauer at that time : ‘ The supernational organisms of the six , which tend inevitably and abusively to become irresponsible superstates , will be reformed , subordinated to governments and used for the normal tasks of the council and technical business . ’ |
| 8 | The Hall was surrounded by heavy , low clouds , which opened now and then to show the grim , cold moor and its wet , grey rocks . |
| 9 | Taking the germ of an idea from the exotic blend of shapes and colours and textures she 'd absorbed during their day out , she worked slowly and painstakingly to create several tiny , intricate designs . |
| 10 | This reflects greatly to the credit of individual residents who labour lovingly and unstintingly to beautify our surroundings to the benefit of all . |
| 11 | They were also the women who went more and more to seek the aid of psychiatrists and marriage counsellors . |
| 12 | She emerged immediately and dramatically to announce that she would be continuing with the contest with the aim of winning on the second ballot . |
| 13 | Obviously there are certain key factors to any sort of reasonable living space : walls and ceiling will have to be decorated along with all the woodwork ; windows and floors have to be treated in some way ; there must be light both to see by and to enhance the space ; there should be something to sit on and probably to eat from and almost certainly somewhere to work at times . |
| 14 | erm towards the end of the century it was just about possible for middle class girls , or a few middle class girls to get a reasonable academic education at one of the G P D S schools — we 've got one in Hove , you know the girls ' public day school trust foundations — but only very few went there and got what would be equivalent now to a kind of secondary education and a very , very , very , very tiny minority of those girls could go on to university if they faced an enormous amount of opposition when they got there and also to get there in the first place , but for most girls there was only a basic elementary education , which increasingly stressed the sort of domestic side of a girl 's vocation . |
| 15 | Thus proving the theory that charity work is always more beneficial to charity workers than to those they appear unselfishly and unstintingly to assist . |
| 16 | Spurred on by the successes of ‘ great experimenters ’ like Galileo , they came more and more to regard experience as the source of knowledge . |
| 17 | In any piece of fiction there must be room for the reader — room for him to jump at a suggestion , to insert himself into a story , to respond to hints and clues : to be told what is offered to him is to encourage him to read passively and so to give him less than he deserves . |
| 18 | He sensed her bewilderment and became a shoulder for her to lean on and sometimes to cry on during this painful period . |
| 19 | Teachers in schools simply have no alternative to making language their principal means of interaction with pupils , they have daily and inevitably to produce , elicit , and evaluate spoken and written text , to concern themselves with literary and language development . |
| 20 | What he had already done at Bec and Caen , he would do at Canterbury : he rebuilt the cathedral church and monastic buildings ; he fought pertinaciously and successfully to defend the ancient properties of the cathedral church against the rapacious invading nobility , who scoured the land for what they could pick up ; he drew up a new code of monastic practice , and he introduced new men who would know how to implement it . |
| 21 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 22 | The man continued to smile and then , with a quick , balanced movement , which in so bulky a man was nimble he moved backwards and sideways to allow Tallboy through the narrow porch into the house . |
| 23 | You need to be able to hold the board in one position without it drifting downwind and also to sail backwards which is invaluable in tight situations . |
| 24 | He decided then and there to take the carrion off her and have it back for himself and so leaned out into the void and tilted into the wind towards her far below . |
| 25 | Understandably , he decided there and then to write off the two weekly instalments he was due to collect from a customer there , and never to lend again in that place . |
| 26 | Funny man , thought Pascoe as he went swiftly and efficiently to work . |
| 27 | It had less and less to say to a home-owning , share-owning , bourgeoisified population , at least so it seemed . |
| 28 | He made them sing softly and then to sing loudly — smoking a cigar and strolling up and down with his walking-cane he had everyone in the audience completely under his control . |