Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were speaking a foreign language , or so it sounded to him — quite different from the priest 's — and many were groaning pitifully , or struggling painfully to get to their feet . |
| 2 | If an expatriate , rather than a local employee is really needed , the organisation has to consider whether to relocate an existing employee or recruit specifically to fill the post . |
| 3 | Sometimes , as in the case of a foreign or inter-state trip , the youngster may just not be old enough or experienced enough to cope , but at other times they may not be showing enough sense of responsibility to be safely granted privileges . |
| 4 | Pistoliers are young nobles , knights ' sons who are not old or experienced enough to win their spurs or join the Reiksguard . |
| 5 | The programmer may choose a long-distance view of the whole execution space of a program , a reduced view as an AND/OR tree , or zoom in to see the details of a single call . |
| 6 | Consequently , it mattered little whether the facade was retained or stripped away to reveal the reality behind it . |
| 7 | A number of other allegations made by Higgins against Kruger were either not proceeded with or found not to constitute conduct bringing the game into disrepute . |
| 8 | Farmers , the country 's biggest water consumers , will be obliged to water crops at dusk or dawn only to reduce evaporation . |
| 9 | The last I heard you were still in Gloucester with the Empress Matilda , so , whether fitzAlan loves you also or has yet to lose interest in your pretty face and form , he will come for you . |
| 10 | If an aggravation occurs i.e. an intensification of the original symptoms , at the end of treatment , then the doses must be reduced in quantity and repeated at longer intervals , or stopped altogether to see if the symptoms will continue to disappear by themselves . |
| 11 | The other buses were either spread out in their running time or cut down to form the evening frequency which was less than what it was during the peak time and so I , you know , I 'd , I 'd left it at then , when I went in the forces then , he carried on . |
| 12 | She may know that her tears will relieve her tension more effectively than shouting back or pretending not to notice , or they may be tears of anger rather than the vulnerability so despised by her colleagues . |
| 13 | There 's nothing that we can say or do here to add the distinction , to add distinction er to what was done here forty years ago . |
| 14 | H M I P which your officers show er or hold up to advise you technically , never get turned down on authorisations submitted to them . |
| 15 | Heckling , or seeking temporarily to disrupt the speaker are insufficient to amount to such an offence . |
| 16 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 17 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 18 | None of the patients ' spouses or carer had been shown or told how to give the drops . |
| 19 | Many may have been persuaded or encouraged not to do so by the uncertainty in the law , so I would not go quite as far as my hon. Friend in suggesting that local authorities alone are to blame . |
| 20 | ‘ She 's got a nasty enough temper — I just do n't myself see her as clever or organized enough to cover her tracks . |
| 21 | You need not hurry them away to lie in your sewing-basket or run upstairs to fold them under your handkerchiefs . |
| 22 | Any seasoned dieter knows full well that she can ‘ cheat ’ that weight off the normal set of bathroom scales by shifting her stance a little or rushing off to empty the bladder , remove the dentures and so on . |
| 23 | The rays pass through a hole in the iris , called the pupil , which opens or closes automatically to alter the amount of light entering the eye , just as the diaphragm of a camera adjusts its aperture . |
| 24 | It is almost inherent in the nature of the passions and the acts we are concerned with that feeling overcomes or ceases directly to control and regulate action . |
| 25 | Those lost for a way to use the unlovely rambutan or wondering how to test a sapodilla for ripeness will find Exotic Fruits especially helpful . |
| 26 | Maybe he was sweating , or nervous , or wondering how to broach the subject . |
| 27 | Too often the choice for the British filmmaker has seemed to lie between critical approval combined with minimal box office or going all-out to emphasize the most garish , flamboyant and parochial aspects of popular cinema . |
| 28 | Other topics might include moving from practice into industry , part-time working or going back to work full time while caring for a young family . |
| 29 | They suggest some of the typically simple pleasures of later life in the past , such as keeping parrots or pigeons , gardening or baking , playing dominoes , drinking a nightly glass of porter at home , or going out to gossip with old workmates . |
| 30 | These arise from a household 's obligation to devote many unpaid hours of work to caring for its dependent members , and from the fact that some households have only one fit person of working age who has to choose between doing this , or going out to earn a living , or driving themselves to exhaustion trying to do both . |