Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are two common types both of which can be switched on or off according to need . |
| 2 | Three hundred and thirty thousand Germans have been senselessly and irresponsibly led to death and destruction through the cunning strategy of a corporal from World War 1 . |
| 3 | Right , we , we , we did actually draw , or we not draw , we , we adopted a constitution during the year and the officers that are erm elected are the Chair , the Secretary and the Treasurer , erm and other , together with other such officers , yeah to determine by general meeting , erm , so it 's really only those three , er and we have sometimes had Advice Chair if there 's only been one Chairman have n't we , one Chair person erm so I think people need to say if they do n't wish to carry on the jobs they 're doing and if anybody wishes to nominate anyone in a particular post then slip at the bottom of the minutes could be filled in and either brought to meeting or sent back to the Secretary . |
| 4 | about being tired and the same thing happened , waiting on them coming in and then going to bed and I could n't get over |
| 5 | They co-authored three papers together in 1985 — their first work together though not related to test-tube fusion . |
| 6 | You can actually address the person rather than just speaking to mister customer . |
| 7 | Between four and eight sectors will be flown , but occasionally either more or less according to season . |
| 8 | Now , the Yale and Union locks they 'd got a certain type of locks that they produced and it was all done with a system , you know what I mean and more or less come to assembly and er they did that . |
| 9 | ARE non-American jazz players more or less doomed to imitation ? |
| 10 | You more or less stood to attention . . |
| 11 | As time went on , Finch found himself more and more attached to bed . |
| 12 | The real matter is in fact that the vast majority of children in this country are growing up in a secularist culture which rules out religion altogether , and that those within faith communities are living in a world in which their faiths will be more and more subjected to secularist interrogation . |
| 13 | If I live , I 'll go home and never go to sea again ! ’ |
| 14 | In practice most trade bills are discounted once and then held to maturity . |
| 15 | A Fool 's Alphabet , say , in which events are narrated not chronologically but alphabetically according to place . |
| 16 | The individual would move up or down according to merit . |
| 17 | quite happily and enjoying himself thoroughly and not going to school , which I think are are three excellent things . |
| 18 | The heroine in her scenario is , for example , ‘ often carried away by the anti-hero , but rescued either by her Father or the Hero — often reduced to support herself & her Father by her Talents & work for her Bread ; — continually cheated & defrauded of her hire , worn down to a Skeleton , & now & then starved to death ’ . |
| 19 | High red serpents swayed up to hang for a lingering minute and fade ; busy green heads with white tails thrashed hither and thither and then dived to death . |
| 20 | Because of a vague feeling of loyalty , a need to repay someone or something who had seemed to walk with me through the burning fiery furnace of my husband 's last illness , I had started now and then to go to church . |
| 21 | From the moment children leave the cosy nest of home , even if only to go to nursery school , parents lose the power to choose and control all their children 's friendships . |
| 22 | Officials there are regularly and publicly taken to task at conservation meetings in Britain and abroad over Britain 's absence from the convention . |
| 23 | Erm as well as just going to night school . |
| 24 | That someone as gentle and inoffensive as Sybil , with her flower paintings and her harmless little poems , should have been needlessly and savagely battered to death , made Melissa seethe with rage . |
| 25 | Some alcohol difficulties will be primarily and directly linked to alcohol use and some will be secondary , a complication but not the causal agent . |
| 26 | The injection of lava along mid-oceanic ridges , for instance , could push the adjacent plates apart and thereby contribute to plate motion ( Fig. 2.17(D) ) . |