Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are therefore constantly looking for ways both to reduce the amount of waste we produce and to upgrade that which remains . |
| 2 | He found it and obviously felt at ease enough to go ahead with the appointment , ’ said Mr King . |
| 3 | He hesitated , perhaps waiting for Peter politely to disagree . |
| 4 | Actually the bulk of it was being done in her father 's absence by his accountant , but still there was enough left for Rory occasionally to feel swamped . |
| 5 | We are not opening in Paris solely to take advantage of the end of trading restrictions within the EC in 1993 , but because the opportunity arose to obtain a suitable area of the Hotel Bristol with our own street window and entrance . |
| 6 | ‘ I ’ m not going to Thailand just to escape from the group , ’ Kate says , still unable to move away from guilt . |
| 7 | ‘ No , you should be all right , ’ he agreed , his smile still in place , ‘ but you 'd best leave after lunch tomorrow to give yourself plenty of time — just in case you get side-tracked , ’ he added , tongue-in-cheek . |
| 8 | The police normally went to villages only to investigate specific serious crimes , usually homicides , but even then they were not always involved . |
| 9 | Do not put in equipment simply to displace labour . |
| 10 | While most reggae DJs rapidly rise in popularity only to sink within a year , Shabba 's following has swelled over the past four years to a point where the reggae market is too small to contain him — witness the shooting and tear gas panic last year at the Brixton Academy , or January 's trashing of Tower Records , London , during a personal appearance . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't care ! ’ she snapped , too far gone in temper now to care about the consequences . |
| 12 | Since a youthful Murray had n't moved to London primarily to find the bass player 's Eldorado , how had he become involved in the live music scene ? |
| 13 | Researchers who were interested in people 's views on blood sports could either hang around waiting for respondents spontaneously to bring the subject up , or they could ask directed questions about this on a structured questionnaire , taking care to ask everybody exactly the same question . |
| 14 | ‘ They tell me you only get that very strong black espresso coffee — not even cappuccino — and the cups are only half full , ’ Mervyn persisted , so that Ianthe had to protest that she was n't going to Rome only to eat and drink . |
| 15 | But for the moment that remained to be seen , for the jet-setter was about to leave for Australia again to make a three-part film assessing his country on its bicentennial . |
| 16 | Then go to Coplands then to go to market |
| 17 | In that scenario , children will then go to school only to gain social skills and join in curricular and other group activities . |
| 18 | ( 63 ) the student selected was fortunate ( 64 ) that the student was selected was fortunate Both ( 63 ) and ( 64 ) have as their basic intensional pattern ( discounting minor dependent items like definiteness and number ) an E extended by assignment to make up their subject , with the whole of this then extended by assignment again to give the full sentence . |
| 19 | New Zealand , Australia and Scotland for that matter would never settle for second just to please a fickle press . |