Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [coord] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | In the evening the men of the village came to watch and later to join the dancers . |
| 5 | He started to speak and then to recite in front of a mirror . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |