Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pers pn] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's too late to do much about it except to make sure you always lock up your personal computer . ’ |
| 2 | Charlie Rogers and , later , his son , Guy , were very good to us , allowing us to treat their estate as our own , to ride all over it and to wander where we would with our dogs . |
| 3 | The question in the last sentence can not be answered , of course ; it is imponderable and we can go no further with it than to agree that it is useful to expose such uncertainties now and then . |
| 4 | It is far better to think through the principles in advance and to act consistently with them than to improvise . |
| 5 | They were trying more to come one place ahead of me than to win a medal . |
| 6 | Doubling in Dostoevsky , which goes back to the very beginning , to Mr Devushkin living and not living in the kitchen , which has its post-Siberian developments in the underground man 's now-you-see-me-now-you-don't ‘ flashing ’ of his consciousness , in Raskolnikov 's and Svidrigailov 's different ways of being among but not with us and Porfiry 's torture tune of ‘ There 's nothing here , precisely nothing , perhaps absolutely nothing ’ — doubling takes on a new form in The Possessed , closer to the I/We/They/Everybody/Nobody shifts of The House of the Dead than anything else before it or to come . |