Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] or [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It it should n't be necessary either to adjust the microphones , to switch them on or to move them actually . |
| 2 | The Americans , in particular , were self-confident and well educated , and their solidarity was in stark contrast with the disunity of the United Kingdom representatives , who were attending as individuals and had no national body to back them up or to formulate a national policy . |
| 3 | There is a circularity in these arguments about the consequences of literacy that makes it difficult to test them out or to apply them fruitfully elsewhere . |
| 4 | The response was to push him off or to move away or no response at all . |
| 5 | And Miss P told him that if ever any man tried to mess him about or to make him do things he did n't want to do then he should come right back to The Bar and tell us , and we 'd sort the man out for him . |
| 6 | Could I ask the clerk to read it please or to recall oh sorry , the convenor , yes indeed . |
| 7 | Most shopkeepers joined the co-operative movement , and big traders , wholesalers perhaps with their own trucks , diversified their businesses , or withdrew money from their businesses to send it abroad or to build houses for themselves and their families . |
| 8 | In R v Mehmed [ 1963 ] Crim LR 780 where the accused had an air pistol which he produced in another 's private house , it would be reasonable to assume that he must have carried it in a public place to get it there or to take it away . |
| 9 | To constitute an offence under those sections the waste must have been deposited on an unlicensed site or in breach of the conditions in the licence , must amount to an ‘ environmental hazard ’ and must have been deposited in such circumstances or for such a period that whoever deposited it there may reasonably be assumed to have abandoned it there or to have brought it there for the purpose of its being disposed as waste . |