Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [coord] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were forbidden to preach or even to meet together for prayer . |
| 2 | It could well be that I have prejudices about what makes a decent DTP system , but I tried to outline and then to justify them as part of the review . |
| 3 | The first step is therefore to decide exactly how much you want to spend and then to look at the range of items that can be purchased for this figure or less . |
| 4 | Some of his self-portrayal is admittedly utterly unattractive : But are we required or invited to follow or even to surpass the Reeve in hostile judgement of his character ? |
| 5 | For bishops , then for presbyters , finally for deacons , Western churches came to expect and ultimately to require celibacy ( though the canonical compulsion was not seriously enforced until medieval times and even thereafter in parts of Europe , like Southern Germany or Wales , it was common for village priests to have a consort and a family , with the support of their flock and the connivance of their bishop who derived income from the annual fee or tax to allow the arrangement ) . |
| 6 | In the evening the men of the village came to watch and later to join the dancers . |
| 7 | Since the airline is not a party to such contract it is not bound to carry or even to store the goods referred to in the house air waybill . |
| 8 | His parents have always refused to co-operate or even to discuss the boy . ’ |
| 9 | At the time of writing , its report is still awaited , but it seems certain that legislation will shortly be introduced to end or sharply to modify the present law . |
| 10 | It would be easier all round to suggest coming to eat and just to eat — leaving as pudding is cleared away ( or better , after you 've helped to wash it up ) . |
| 11 | He started to speak and then to recite in front of a mirror . |
| 12 | ‘ Go home , dear girl , you will die of heat on your bicycle , ’ the women under the arcades would say to me in their strange Parmigiano dialect ( which I soon learned to understand but never to speak ) as I rode past . |
| 13 | My mother 's story on the other hand was told to me much earlier , in bits and pieces throughout the fifties , and it was n't delivered to entertain but rather to teach me lessons . |
| 14 | It may help to see how the need for process studies was perceived to exist and then to proceed to indicate in which branches studies were undertaken using what methods as a basis for assessing how our knowledge has increased in spatial terms and in time with reference to catastrophic views . |
| 15 | He hurried back to the hotel , trying to rush but also to keep up the appearance of quiet dignity his employers would expect of him . |
| 16 | They learn to crawl and then to walk , and the first direction in which they are likely to move is away . |
| 17 | Whenever possible , Mrs. Ayliffe accompanied her husband on his travels and acted as his interpreter , for he steadfastly refused to speak and simultaneously to interpret , maintaining that no-one can do one without detriment to the other . |