Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind whipped at him , making it hard to hover and harder still to drop his talons on the moving branches on which he was trying to land . |
| 2 | The language was comprehensible only by the greatest concentration ; the issues mind-boggling ; the logic of past actions difficult to recollect and harder still to articulate . |
| 3 | He had arrived at the precise moment when Elizabeth had begun to sob and then desolately to weep , and all Lydia 's skills , social , sexual and manipulative , had abruptly deserted her . |
| 4 | For Eden — and certain other key figures such as Macmillan ( now chancellor of the exchequer ) — this Egyptian coup was immediately seen as an opportunity to humiliate or better still to bring down Nasser . |
| 5 | There is much to do and even more to see . |
| 6 | In place of an unbridled power struggle in which almost anything was permissible and extreme instability in relations between states was the norm , it was now being asserted that the task of diplomacy was not to deceive or even perhaps to defeat an opponent , but rather to reconcile conflicting ambitions and help different states to coexist , at least for considerable periods , in a reasonable degree of amity . |
| 7 | He sank back and started to hum and then quietly to sing snatches of endearments from the songs they knew . |