Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] and [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gave her meat for now and to smoke for the winter , and a jacket , stinking but warm . |
| 2 | His aims were ‘ to prevent mental illusions due to false ideas from within and to prevent false teaching from other fellows ’ . |
| 3 | The Soviet Union was doing everything possible to ‘ prevent interference from outside and to neutralise attempts at such interference ’ in socialist countries undergoing dramatic political change in Eastern Europe , notably East Germany . |
| 4 | Yeah , tell them there are children and women in here and to call it off . |
| 5 | Certainly not as bright as here , er sufficient light for me to be able to see that there were people in there and to differentiate between a man and a woman but er at that time not enough to be able to clearly define anybody . |
| 6 | In Robert Robson 's view , Mayfest 's main functions are to provide a platform for major Scottish work , to play host to quality work from overseas and to celebrate community initiatives . |
| 7 | With a view to aiding the assessment of a patient 's progress there are a few simple guidelines that can be followed ; for cure to be taking place the disease should go from within to without , from organs of greater importance to lesser importance , from above to below and to disappear in the reverse order to their original appearance . |
| 8 | Any sort of boat could have been used to ferry a body to midstream and to put it gently over the side in darkness . |