Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give the cards to someone to shuffle and then ask another to cut the cards . |
| 2 | Far from lending their weight to agitation for political realignment , Labour 's leaders organized to resist and ultimately expel those who persisted in advocating it . |
| 3 | There were obviously men in Hollywood who wanted to use social themes , there were audiences who were willing to attend these films , and there were critics who were prepared to praise and even honour these films . |
| 4 | " The Secretary then intimated that he intended to resign and thereby give another Member a chance to act as Secretary . |
| 5 | Speakers who were unaware of or unable to select and then transmit these differentiating features were clearly going to be ineffective communicators . |
| 6 | The first requirement is to have a large number of potential projects from which to select and then to select those which will produce the best returns on the resources available . |
| 7 | The first requirement is to have a large number of potential projects from which to select and then to select those which will produce the best returns on the resources available . |
| 8 | It enables couples to grow and creatively overcome those painful moments which are part of every marriage . |
| 9 | It certainly felt fast to use and comfortably exceeded all the 33MHz 486 machines we looked at this month . |
| 10 | I heard you trying to persuade and then threaten this young lady to get her into your car , and it 's not the first time I 've witnessed such a thing . |
| 11 | This would result in his rhythms running more slowly when he was interested and more quickly when he was bored ( because he would go to bed earlier due to the lack of something interesting to do and so require less sleep ) . |
| 12 | They imply that it is psychologically or biologically natural to recognize and perhaps to rank these differences . |
| 13 | It 's just that you have been waiting all afternoon for it to arrive and now have little choice but to try and bludgeon your way through the waves of cover tacklers . |
| 14 | Children will be asked to watch and then describe such simple pretend episodes . |
| 15 | It is now agreed that global action is urgently required to first to control and then to reduce these and other emissions . |
| 16 | And she might have been able to deal with the situation — might , indeed , have been able to suppress and finally bury such an errant emotion — if it were n't for her present situation . |
| 17 | The secret of successful research is to identify clearly the " profit " goal you are trying to achieve and then research all the options for achieving that goal as well as all the factors affecting its achievement . |
| 18 | But Mr Major , ever the pragmatist , moved swiftly to limit and even repair any damage done to the relationship . |