Example sentences of "and sometimes [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | When I have been entertaining Shirley and Terry Jones doing an evening meal on a Saturday or a Sunday and sometimes both to help Shirley when she was getting into the run of going back to work I found that one of the cheapest of dinner party deserts was lemon meringue pie . |
2 | Moreover , inputs and particularly outputs are often difficult to quantify , and sometimes even to identify . |
3 | Firstly , while it goes to great lengths to be friendly and avoid jargon , because it is an American book , you do need to be happy with US slang speech to enjoy it , and sometimes even to understand it , as in ‘ Obtuse code-word sorters divvy those ’ , ‘ Most DOS programs are text-based critters ’ , or ‘ To counter this bad trip , the Windows programmers created a communal work place where all the programs could groove together peacefully ’ . |
4 | So , I mean what I 'm saying is that I think we should have a league table if you like of , of attendances , I , I recognise that that may not be popular , but I think it 's going to be one way of sorting out those people who attend every opportunity , and sometimes just to pat an officer on the back . |
5 | Many councils have themselves encouraged their growth — sometimes to avoid the implications of centrally imposed financial constraints and sometimes explicitly to make co-operation and partnerships with the voluntary and private sectors easier and less dependent on committee cycles and bureaucratic indecision . |
6 | The norms concerning this are complicated and sometimes hard to work out . |
7 | Although it would be convenient scientifically and sometimes personally to regard work as a separable part of a human life this separation is never entirely valid and can be misleading . |