Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The baby , already stricken with a tumour on the heart and given just weeks to live , had suffered a seizure on the plane . |
| 2 | She has two children under five and has just £50 to spend as she is currently paying off a social fund loan . |
| 3 | Lafayette took one year , and cost over £300,000 to develop and launch . |
| 4 | The present study was prospective and allowed only race to vary — and so adds important information . |
| 5 | This type of display is foolproof and takes only minutes to arrange . |
| 6 | They can be very elaborate , with a separate little piece for the base of each finger , but a very simple pair works just as well and takes only minutes to knit . |
| 7 | A psychiatric nurse I talked to in Sheffield works twenty-eight hours and takes home £51 to keep herself and two children . |
| 8 | As he ‘ crammed ’ his Latin and algebra , he read Don Quixote and Boccaccvo and set aside time to read twenty pages of Goethe and twenty pages of Malory daily . |
| 9 | ‘ the complexities of legal practice are such that it is difficult to see how a one man band can take holidays , cope with illness , and set aside time to keep up to date with the law and still give an adequate service to public . |
| 10 | I 'm quite sure she did n't believe a word of this , but in Oxford it is considered good manners to take an adversarial position so as to generate an interesting conversation and allow both parties to display their intelligence , knowledge and eloquence . |
| 11 | Gradually they hope to strip away the disguises and help both partners to understand themselves and each other better and recognize the ways in which they interact . |
| 12 | a rectangular piece of crêpe paper large enough to go around the tube once and have about 10cm to spare at each end |
| 13 | One gets used to this , but it would be just as well when engaging astern gear to check that both blades have thrown before calling on any real power . |