Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [to-vb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no way to do this but to earn their respect and to remember that they , too , can be hard-pushed . |
| 2 | Having been primed by Draper back in the hotel room on who played or produced what , Branson would present himself with a box of tapes and play just one track by each artist ; enough to whet the appetite , but not so much as to test his customer 's patience — or indeed Branson 's own musical knowledge . |
| 3 | The torch she hardly used at all ; only once or twice , shading it within her palm , she let it flash upon the paler gravel of the path , to align her passage alongside the faintly glowing water , and then snapped it out again quickly , to avoid reliance upon its light as much as to conceal her presence here . |
| 4 | The cat gave a whimper , as much as to tell its mistress what a terrible time it had had . |
| 5 | THE DIY BORE : He likes nothing more than to celebrate his talent , big or small . |
| 6 | Most of them were accorded pseudonyms ( ‘ I will call her Sylvia ’ ) and given a few lines of narrative , where their function was little more than to illustrate our hero 's appetite and prowess . |
| 7 | She could feel Maggie 's distress ; Maggie needed more than to have her care about the house . |