Example sentences of "or [verb] [art] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | That damn' word brought me back to the harsh reality of my situation : not just the discovery of a traitor or bringing a murderer to book but vengeance for Agnes and , of course , the Herculean task which the Great Killer had assigned me ! |
2 | The woman who is fearful of or has an aversion to sex at 30 , unless some remedial circumstance intervenes , will be still more so at 70 . |
3 | However , recent evidence suggests that HBIG may reduce the frequency , or extend the time to onset , of recurrent HBV . |
4 | The matter of paying rent , rates , bills of any sort , or taking a child to dentist or doctor , or when need be , to the school in order to enquire into the progress ( or otherwise ) of his offspring were not part of his world . |
5 | And others on the scientific level who would claim the excuse of a school run , or taking the wife to Surgery . |
6 | Or hoard his wealth or take the Scotch to bed . |
7 | The extreme of critical judgement is to destroy the work concerned , as bulldozers destroyed a Russian exhibition of experimental art in 1974 ; or to forbid an artist to work , as was the practice in National Socialist Germany , where another form of criticism was used in 1937 by making an exhibition of art to be repudiated by its visitors . |