Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His manager , Simon , who was also Cyril 's elder brother , had persuaded him to lower his sights — or rather to aim at a different and better target . |
| 2 | As though he had suddenly realised that Curtis was bluffing him , frightening him into pleading for mercy in a pathetic attempt to humiliate him — or perhaps to force from him a confession of what the lieutenant claimed were his crimes against the whores he had exterminated . |
| 3 | Mozart 's music will be played throughout the world in 1991 in many bicentenary celebrations , but where better to listen to his operas , chamber music and piano concertos than in Vienna , a city that he described as ‘ the best place in the world for my metier ’ . |
| 4 | She had a neat , methodical mind and it pleased her to hunt around for an odd half-hour or so to fill with planting lettuces or doing the mending . |
| 5 | And er therefore er w we made the most of it , my chum and I , Sid , we were in nineteen thirty two I would think we would be o one of the first hundred people or so to go with a , a week 's f er tour to Paris by air . |
| 6 | Have you , technically , presumably erm , Gooch could appeal , you can be timed out if you 're not on the , on the field by that time , but then of course you 've got another erm eighty yards or so to walk to up to the far end . |
| 7 | Launched from ML 102 , the two raiders had a mile or so to paddle on a compass course through choppy water into the harbour where , as the canoe surged on the swell alongside a large ship , they reached down underwater to fix their eight limpet mines . |
| 8 | mid next week and then give you a day or so to look at it . |
| 9 | It raised the more general and important question whether the determination of a statutory tribunal with a limited jurisdiction could give rise to issue estoppel at all , or only to cause of action estoppel ; in other words , whether it could give rise to an estoppel for all purposes or only for the limited purpose for which the jurisdiction to make the determination was conferred . |
| 10 | Two large hotels , the Victoria and the Royal appeared , to accommodate those who flocked to take the waters for the treatment of rheumatism , or merely to holiday in this new , unusual and tranquil place . |
| 11 | The mnemonic RAM reminds you of repetition , association and mnemonics , and these three techniques can be used in combination or separately to retain in your memory the facts , ideas or opinions that you encounter in your studies . |
| 12 | reporting accountants should owe a duty to the Law Society to report directly where their instructions have been terminated by solicitors whose reports would otherwise have been qualified ; or generally to report on ‘ suspicious circumstances ’ ; |
| 13 | Are these people afraid to expose themselves in a panel condemning the National Health Service or just to sit in the background and make any comments ? |
| 14 | It is possible to book alarm calls , make transferred charge calls , telephone for travel information , for the time , the weather , or just to listen to a story or some music ! |
| 15 | For others , it was a chance to browse … or just to relax in the sunshine . |
| 16 | For others , it was a chance to browse … or just to relax in the sunshine . |
| 17 | It is now an acceptable place to bivouac or just to break for lunch in bad weather . |
| 18 | Some of the artwork is nice but if you 've got a tenner or more to spend on nice artwork then you 're probably the subject of a public inquiry at the moment so you 're likely to be more than a little preoccupied . |
| 19 | Not everyone gets better at weekends either — sometimes it can take a week or more to recover from the effects of chemicals at work . |
| 20 | The hospice aims to beat its previous record of £1,400 , and anyone with an hour or more to spare on the day should contact Deirdre Shaw or Dorothy Davison on . |
| 21 | Here in London I 'll be bound sooner or later to run into Madeleine . |
| 22 | It is an offence under bylaw 17(4) of bylaw 2 of the British Railway Board Bye Laws to molest or wilfully to interfere with the comfort or convenience of other passengers . |
| 23 | Alternative ways of increasing supplies include the time-honoured one of debasement : one way of meeting the increased demand for gold jewellery was to increase the proportion of alloy by decreasing the carats of the metal used , to reduce the thickness of the metal or even to resort to gilding silver or base metal . |
| 24 | She no longer felt that she needed to defend herself , or even to account for herself , there . |
| 25 | Yet they were totally unwilling to join the Party or even to vote for its national and local candidates . |
| 26 | This was quite conscious on my part , but I was too proud to mention it to anyone or even to hint at any such thing . |
| 27 | Although Uaru are not noted for equipment bashing , they have been known to move it gently aside , or even to spawn on it if it happens to be in their chosen spot . |
| 28 | It never occurred to her not to believe him , or even to ask for identification . |
| 29 | I was afraid to go to bed , or even to sleep for a few moments in my chair . |
| 30 | When teachers , matrons , the housemistress and finally the headmistress all started to show some concern and more disapproval at my unco-operative ( anorexic ) behaviour , I refused to answer their questions , or even to talk to them at all , and during the course of their homilies I merely stared out of the window or smiled to myself in a superior , scornful sort of way . |