Example sentences of "to [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From how to make curries and biscuits to microwaving successfully and entertaining in general , The Australian Woman 's Weekly Home Library has all the answers . |
| 2 | Ma had taken to knitting again , long grey pullovers and slipovers and socks . |
| 3 | Could it be that thoughts are turning to knitting now the Autumn season is upon us ? |
| 4 | These range from determining exactly where in Europe the lord of an English medieval manor was at a certain date ( for the more senior magnates were often crusaders , pilgrims , legates and diplomatists ) to ascertaining precisely when an eighteenth-century trading agreement with a French merchant was concluded . |
| 5 | The patient may need to eat from a bowl at first , as he gets used to eating one-handed . |
| 6 | Being omnivores , badgers will get used to eating just about anything , though very little will interest them on rainy nights , when the chance of getting their favourite food — earthworms — is high . |
| 7 | As you can see , I 'm not a fanatic when it comes to eating healthily — I enjoy my food . |
| 8 | She would go from eating little and missing meals to eating heavily at times when she experienced her sweet cravings . |
| 9 | She ate quickly , partly because she was so used to eating alone now that it seemed more a practicality than a pleasure , and partly so that the servants might have their own dinner at leisure in the kitchen . |
| 10 | The patient returned to eating only foods that had been shown to be safe . |
| 11 | It had taken her months to get used to eating so late and so many times a day . |
| 12 | Yes you can have it cos I 'm not going to get round to eating so , there 's |
| 13 | I hope that my right hon. Friend will appreciate that objection is taken to eating more and more into the principle by which the burden of proof is on the prosecution to establish guilt and not on the defendant to establish innocence . |
| 14 | Tawell 's counsel , Fitzroy Kelly , had already insulted the jury 's intelligence by suggesting that prussic acid found in Sara 's body was due to eating too many apples . |
| 15 | I often thought what the neighbours that and , you know , and Mrs who used to lived here then |
| 16 | Has any consideration been given to allowing right hon. and hon. Members to express an opinion on that matter , either on the Floor of the House or in European Standing Committee B ? |
| 17 | Data Communications : Collection and manipulation of data on the shop floor with a view to allowing more efficient management of the industry 's resources . |
| 18 | The USA and the UK were , crucially , status quo powers , with interests firmly committed to allowing as little change to the new international order as possible . |
| 19 | In addition to criminalizing both the practice and receipt of abortions , the law also made the provision of information concerning abortion a crime punishable by up to one year 's imprisonment . |
| 20 | Then , when we went back to rotating mentally the computer simulation of the room and attempting to ‘ see ’ possible lines of sight , I had a further shock . |
| 21 | If the swing around on landing is severe , it may be due to using too much pitch , which will aggravate the above problems . |
| 22 | Er , but in the ordinary course of events er , this afternoon is , is I 'm dedicated to using as many cliches as I possibly can , erm , is , is , you know , that works very well as a way of protecting time for myself . |
| 23 | It is then all the more strange that 1-2-3 for Windows limits you to using only eight fonts per worksheet . |
| 24 | Each house has its bomb shelter and secret tutus or underground holes where families can hide when the army returns to using more violent means of coercion . |
| 25 | And are n't averse to using fairly unpleasant methods to er to get the money back if you begin to default on payments . |
| 26 | In attempting to influence political developments in Poland , the West was reduced to using precisely those instruments that the Bonn government ( and Social Democratic opposition ) is now belatedly attempting to apply to the GDR : first , a symbolic politics recognising the Church and opposition as partners no less important than the communist authorities who claim to be , but are not , identical with ‘ the state ’ and , second , the conditional offer of economic help ( politely called ‘ co-operation ’ ) as a goad to political change — neither pure ‘ carrot ’ nor simple ‘ stick ’ , but a carrot-cum-stick . |
| 27 | Oh you have to got there in a minute . |
| 28 | You get used to seeing so many things , you become immune to what would normally be considered perversions . |
| 29 | It should be evident to arty thinking individual that the problems facing our Planet at this point in time are the results of a commitment to a science and a philosophy based on erroneous assumptions about the true nature of reality , and that these assumptions are the products of a mentality conditioned to seeing only the separation , the apara , between all things , rather than the unity . |
| 30 | Similarly some DCSLs had lost contact with the school 's senior management team once funding was complete , reverting again to seeing only the teacher-librarian . |