Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] to [conj] " in BNC.

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1 , but Benguiat took it as like a threat to and went after him in the lobby of hall and they had to be prised apart .
2 Later they could have wedded sentences in constructions such as causal conditionals , being both a spur to and the reflection of our ancestors ' growing conceptual mastery of the world about them .
3 I I guess there was probably a lean to or something like that .
4 I du n no who , who do I m I do n't know , I d do that to s er see there is somebody that I do that quite a bit to but I ca n't remember who it is or a few people maybe .
5 Er , it started in eighteen fifty six , had been currying leather for the saddlery trade all those years and it was then a subsidiary to and was making saddlery leather for them , but in addition , quite a large production of fancy leather for the local light leather goods trade .
6 The indications are , therefore , that Offa 's involvement in Kentish affairs in 764–5 was short-lived , either a response to or an attempt to take advantage of a particular crisis — almost certainly the emergence of so many rival rulers in Kent in the immediately preceding period- and that the advent of Ecgberht terminated it .
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