Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I actually follow you down the street in order to be sure that you do n't throw it away or forget to post it , for instance , then I at one and the same time become certain that you 've posted it and display a lack of faith that you will do so . |
| 2 | The troubles of the nuclear industry in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 are well known : a slowdown or halt to construction of new plants , plus the closedown earlier this year of the nuclear power station near Erevan in Armenia because of safety worries after last December 's earthquake . |
| 3 | Ultratone will do it for you while you relax , watch TV or listen to music . |
| 4 | Thus while anyone in the world , with normal physical resources , can watch dance or look at sculpture or listen to music , still some forty per cent of the world 's present inhabitants can make no contact whatever with a piece of writing , and in earlier periods this percentage was very much larger . |
| 5 | Nobody was allowed to hum , or whistle or listen to music , either , because the merchant thought that people should save their breath the way they saved their money . |
| 6 | Did he ever read a book or listen to music ? |
| 7 | We had to take it in turns day by day to get this monstrosity going , or freeze to death , and the hours I 've spent wasting matches , holding sheets of paper against the opening to create an up-draught , blowing like a whale whenever a tiny spark appeared ! |
| 8 | In Australia , the orange-winged sitella , a nuthatch-like bird , uses strips of wood or bark to winkle insect larvae out of crevices . |
| 9 | It can on demand change this to either Start to Start or Finish to Finish . |
| 10 | Some measures used [ were ] ambiguous , misleading or open to manipulation by managers ’ . |
| 11 | We either freeze to death or starve to death . |
| 12 | I have read Labour 's document , which is entitled ’ Fair Rates ’ , in which the Labour party did not tackle the question of how it would deal with houses in multiple occupation or refer to salary levels . |
| 13 | What is badly needed now is a supply of bright and stimulating material in the form of posters which illustrate or refer to wool and textiles — these are essential to encourage the residents to partake in this particular form of therapy . |
| 14 | Perhaps Mr Paxman would at last achieve what we have always been waiting for him to do in one of his interviews : either fall fast asleep or choke to death on one of his own jokes . |
| 15 | Interference with or harm to evidence connected with a serious arrestable offence . |
| 16 | Duress invalidating consent to a contract is regarded as occurring where a party has been imprisoned or threatened with , for example , imprisonment , or violence , or harm to reputation , or criminal prosecution of a spouse . |
| 17 | Prevent an offence by anyone else of disposing , treating or sorting waste at a site that does not have a waste management licence , is operating in contravention of the conditions of any such licence , or is operating in a manner likely to cause pollution or harm to health . |
| 18 | Its report , based on interviews with 140 income support claimants by Bradford University researchers and the Family Service Unit charity , claims mothers regularly go short of food to ensure their children have enough , and that parents scrounge clothing from relatives or turn to charity or loan sharks . |
| 19 | There would be an extra pair of hands to tend the sheep , to trade , to work the land , or go to school then work in the city and send money home . |
| 20 | She could watch television or go to sleep . |
| 21 | Each weekend begins on Friday evening with supper , followed by an introductory talk , film or video , night prayers and then the freedom to sit and chat or go to bed . |
| 22 | Manifestations can vary enormously from one individual to another ; a sufferer may — or may not — forget how to wash , dress , eat , go to the lavatory , get up or go to bed ; be disorientated in time and place ( for example , may get up in the middle of the night , or may wander away from home and be unable to find his or her way back ) ; forget the social conventions of politeness , and may therefore become aggressive or rude ( or over-friendly ) ; forget how to communicate , and even his or her own or other people 's identity . |
| 23 | If doctors fail to do something the Bill lays down , the could be fined or go to prison for six months . |
| 24 | Judge Lawrence Rubin warned : ‘ Sort yourself out — or go to prison for three years . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Produce him — or go to hell ! ’ said Mr Rochester . |
| 26 | If too many units are produced , stocks will lie idle or go to waste ; if too few are produced , the item will go out of stock , and it may be difficult to fit in further batches in the short-term . |
| 27 | First he attacked the tents of that Moorish Queen the Negress , who lay nearest to the city ; and this onset was so sudden , that they killed full a hundred and fifty Moors before they had time to take arms or go to horse . |
| 28 | Since they have been disturbed and more than a little frightened in the process they will vacate the burrow , will very likely feed and then either lie rough on the surface somewhere or go to ground in a completely fresh burrow system . |
| 29 | You may be able to sue a negligent surveyor or go to arbitration , but you are likely to be the loser , though your interests are now ( since April 1989 ) better protected in law . |
| 30 | Quiet country parsons , who had applied for twenty shares in the hope of being allotted one , now had to buy all twenty , at fifty pounds apiece , or go to debtor 's jail — all for a railway that the judge , barrister , company , and jailer knew would never exist . |