Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [adv] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The period 's drama which was not seriously considered as literature until the Jacobean period ( and then only selectively ) has been critically absorbed to now belong to elite literature . |
| 2 | Being so unused to all this , most preferred to literally stick with the ‘ wet white ’ . |
| 3 | Having created their masterpiece , they 're hardly going to just sit on it ( and spin ) — putting it into the Public Domain is a very cost-effective method of bringing their work to the attention of leading software development houses ( Ashley Routledge and David Saunders of Poseidon and St Dragon fame started out this way ) . |
| 4 | Deloittes had been negligent when certifying AWA 's 1986 profits and it had also failed to adequately disclose to directors various matters including books and record deficiences , the existence of ‘ hedges upon hedges ’ , the ability of its foreign exchange dealer Andrew Koval to siphon funds , and the fact that he was dealing in sums of up to $400m . |
| 5 | There had been times , especially after a long busy night at the club , when she had been severely tempted to just throw in the towel and thumb through the Yellow Pages to find the nearest painter and decorator to hand . |
| 6 | From June to mid-September there is a piano bar , or you may simply prefer to just sit on the terrace with a cocktail at sunset . |
| 7 | Infuriatingly he just laughed quietly and she flatly refused to even glance at him again . |
| 8 | Adults learning to use computers are frequently taught very basic principles ( like how to switch on the machine and " boot " a disc ) and then encouraged to simply play with it for a while . |
| 9 | However , instead of er releasing and dealing with his rage , Wilson er instead chose to strongly identify with his father , erm argued er Wilson never grew beyond his father identification , because the situation whereby er Wilson was full of , of the conviction that his er mission in life was somehow divided . |
| 10 | There has been an artificial element to such ‘ restraint ’ by Soviet leaders since the USSR has remained poorly placed to openly compete with the West in forming coalitions or alliances in the Third World . |
| 11 | She dedicated her song to all the boys who had really regretted doing it , all the men who have ever said , naming no names , it took ten years of my life , and now I can truly say that I never want to even talk to him again , never to see him . |
| 12 | But although she opened her mouth to make it quite clear to her infuriating parent that she was not , never would be , and never wanted to even think about being in love with Luke Hunter , somehow the words would n't come . |