Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not think he would like to hear from her , or possibly even to think about her . |
| 2 | There are nasty people ( a pox on their house ) who use fresh-minted language not simply or even primarily to communicate with their peers , but to repel boarders ; just as prep-school boys use cabalisms to confuse rival Football teams . |
| 3 | No wonder Roger was scathing about the visitors , here they were , two parties of them , refusing to talk to him and vying to persuade Blackwall into some sort of agreement with them or even possibly to part with whatever rights he had . |
| 4 | My Lord of Buckingham come to Templecombe thinking the relics might be hidden here , or maybe just to verify with Hopkins that what he had been told was the truth . |
| 5 | Nowadays , people have more time than ever before to devote to leisure and recreation . |
| 6 | It will be easiest to explain the principles of heredity with the traits in which they were originally discovered , and only then to turn to behaviour . |
| 7 | For a standard rose , cut a strip of hessian sacking about 3–4 inches ( 8–10cm ) wide , and long enough to go round the plant stem twice . |
| 8 | Colour another piece of fondant black , roll out and cut three strips about 2cm ( ¾inch ) wide and long enough to wrap around the rocket . |
| 9 | Aye , you do that , you get to know the trouble-makers and especially how to deal with them … |
| 10 | Local authorities are urged to provide guidance about suitable locations for small firms , and generally not to interfere with market forces . |
| 11 | Let us assume that you are a woman of medium height , doing a job like housework , which requires a moderate amount of physical activity , and that you are about one stone overweight and just about to embark on trying to lose it . |
| 12 | As ever , historians have much to offer the modern technical society in which they find themselves and still more to do in order to catch up with it . |
| 13 | Although advances in urban dialectology are certainly a by-product of his methods , his principal objectives were to use variable data as a means of elucidating processes of linguistic change and more generally to contribute to core linguistic theory ( cf. 5.2.1 ) . |
| 14 | Although digoxin is easily detected in fresh blood it is far more difficult to trace in fresh body tissue and harder again to detect in old samples of either flesh or blood . |
| 15 | It gives them plenty of cover and also somewhere to rest with their heads out of the water but their bodies submerged . |
| 16 | As strange as it sounds , the great popularity of Hitler already before the war had for the most part little to do with fanatical belief in the central tenets of the Hitlerian racial-imperialist ‘ world-view ’ , and even less to do with belief in the Party , whose leader he was . |
| 17 | And even less to remember of the delay at Ankara before the connection to Baghdad . |
| 18 | Make it a loose fit over the frame and deep enough to rest on the base-board . |
| 19 | It really is I mean I I still feel guilty and it might sound daft to you , but I still feel guilty and what would my have done about I was down in London a few weeks ago for a meeting and I was coming back on the sleeper and I got the train to Euston and erm I came out at the wrong spot , so I had to walk out of Euston Underground and then round to go to Euston Station rather than going through |
| 20 | As you do so , take your arms up and then down to rest on the floor above your head . |
| 21 | In the following sentence , the effect introduced by the use of the to infinitive is even more striking : ( 190 ) … what he saw there made him falter and repeat himself and then suddenly to explode into a cry . |
| 22 | Girls with anorexia or bulimia often feel to blame for their original ‘ weight problem ’ , then to blame for becoming too obsessed with it , and then further to blame for being unable to ‘ pull themselves together ’ . |
| 23 | Realising that this was an emergency and almost certainly to do with Mrs Rafferty 's continual but nowadays abortive pregnancies , Liza said quickly , ‘ I 'll ring the hospital for an ambulance . |
| 24 | Yet to a very large extent German efforts were contradictory : Völkisch opinion wished Germany to remain as it was and yet somehow to return to the past ; they wanted to return to the past yet at the same time wished for the power to behave as they pleased . |
| 25 | The object of the exercise as presented in such channels of communication is not how to get the most nutritious meals prepared in the shortest possible time but rather how to go beyond the usual range of meals with time-consuming inventiveness and culinary skill . |
| 26 | I was only a short time standing there , but long enough to take in the vessel 's lines , the quite dainty sheer , her size and the layout of the masts and rigging . |
| 27 | The pupil has to learn not only history and geography , but also how to relate to teachers and fellow students : for example , when it is acceptable to claim the attention of the teacher and to ask questions , or when conversation with friends is allowed . |
| 28 | Not as well as the General , but well enough to agree with the General 's assessment . ’ |
| 29 | Not admittedly as much as the argument about whether you can see Schiehallion or not , but certainly enough to end in tears . |
| 30 | Perverse unreasonable Pamela , begone from my sight and know as well how to behave in a hopeful prospect as in a distressful state . |