Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv prt] to the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The involuntary expansions and contractions have the consequence that to hold on to the most aware response it may be a practical necessity to numb oneself to a local awareness which distracts from it . |
| 2 | We turned left , took a deep breath , and changed down to the very smallest chaining . |
| 3 | He should pull himself together , buy himself a decent set of clothes and pop down to the Today ( sic ) for a shift in the showbusiness department . |
| 4 | If we were to construct a ‘ ladder ’ of non-fatal offences , starting with the most serious and moving down to the least serious , the offence of attempted murder should be placed at the top . |
| 5 | It does n't seem to have had as bad an effect on a lot of people as it might appear — they have n't immediately turned round and gone back to the very worst anti-gay feeling . |
| 6 | The evidence from elsewhere in America and Britain is that exhibitors increasingly took the masses for granted and were always investing in better and better cinemas so as to hang on to the more respectable lower middle-class audience . |