Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [to-vb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may set that as a target to try and work at it this way to overcome that or to do it better . |
| 2 | What we sought to do , in terms of Community competence , in the discussions was to extend it in areas where we thought it was appropriate and to define it more adequately than it has been defined in the past in order to prevent , as far as it is possible to prevent it , that element of creeping competence that so offends many people in this country . |
| 3 | In 1978 the act was amended to make the earliest mandatory retirement age 70 and to eliminate it entirely for federal employees . |
| 4 | There had been military expeditions to establish English authority in Wales in 1277 and to maintain it there in 1282–3 and again in 1287 , and these were costly enough in their way , but they paled in comparison with the activity and demands of the 1290s . |
| 5 | The Citation rolled slowly on to its left side as Duncan fought to keep it flying and to keep it away from the airliner . |