Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv prt] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 No you did n't have you did n't have a finishing hand , you did n't really have a brilliant first two hands and then the pick of the one , two , three bouncer I might I might have been persuaded to play the one , two , three bouncer and hope that that got through but to finish with an ace flush but good .
2 Grendon is unlike all other prisons in Britain , not least because it 's easier to get out than to get in .
3 It is not hard to see how attempts to value popular culture or television , or to legitimize their academic study , come up against Adorno and Horkheimer as a check which it may be easier to think around than to think through .
4 Thus you play into the hands of that force which desires your downfall and wishes to hinder your inner progress , leaving you to shut the gate on the prison you have built for yourself , afraid to step out and to try anew to overcome your weaknesses .
5 Opponents of the project to remove the road have been quick to point out that to reunite the expanse of archaeological remains carries a political subtext of cancelling out of one of the most potent symbols of Mussolini 's fascist State .
6 And then er that 's one of t the the boss made that cabinet there er it 's got the feet er but and these are what they call astricles These panes of glass are all in er individually you know , they 're all put in and to polish these wee astricles oh you you had to be very deli cos they 're very thin you know , and you had to flay them and polish and they lay them in the thing and then they they were fitted in and then the glass was The doors were sent to the glaziers Certain amount of polish on them and then the doors were sent to the glazers and then they were finished after that you know .
7 At the end of a year it 's good to look back and to feel that you have made some progress in your spiritual life .
8 The student may be able to stand back and to relativize his or her own learning .
9 After the pilot 's personal safety , the safety of the aircraft must be the next most important consideration ; it is always safer to land out than to risk trying to get back with marginal height .
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