Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 You 've no idea the miners and , and people that came out onto the road and had nowhere to go or stay and had nothing .
2 Then she withdrew her will from Fenna , leaving the dragon free to go or come as he would .
3 He could accept self-determination and advance the prospects of a political settlement without burning his boats with the army — to whom he presented association as the first step towards a real , consensual integration — and without seeming to capitulate or feeling that he was capitulating to the FLN .
4 Unfortunately , both circumstances particularly highlighted skills which were difficult to acquire or monitor and could hardly act as evidence on the nature of thought .
5 Most local commercial outlets dealt in things to wear or watch or eat .
6 What a prank to capture some upstart tech gang member , or some undercity riff-raff , and throw him into the heat sink itself to slide or tumble or simply fall free , down , down , tens of kilometres down into the inferno .
7 As the hon. Gentleman knows , it is not general practice to confirm or deny that nuclear tests are about to take place .
8 Sources from both clubs said they understood the new bid was from the same source , but an Argyll spokesman refused to confirm or deny that the company was behind the bid .
9 Moore refused to confirm or deny whether it was true .
10 Like bees buzzing up and down my window pane , the instinct is too deep for such a creature to see or to reason that he is not getting the expected response .
11 Being a bit hard up for anything new to tell you in this section I 'll say that the weight of the guitar is medium/light and , true to form , it balances perfectly whether you choose to sit or stand while playing .
12 They turned this way and that to hie or wheesh or tcht tcht or whoa ; and of course , I have no doubt the horses were so tired they would have found their way home any way .
13 The main function of early presbyters was not to preach or celebrate but to give counsel to bishops .
14 If it is easy for a man — it is usually the man who suffers from such fears — to hit difficulty due to his own self-doubt , it is doubly easy for his partner to support or feed that doubt by her own expectation of his failure or overt recognition of it .
15 And he did n't know whether to grin or grimace when it produced a point-saver from Wright after a link-up between Steve Bould and Lee Dixon .
16 It makes it an offence to promote or conduct or assist in the conduct of a mock auction .
17 When you are around 50 yards from the green , there is often a dilemma for the golfer in deciding whether to pitch or chip and run .
18 Within minutes one was torn from reading a book to being gagged and trussed up in a sack , carried down stairs by running men , waiting for the bag to slip or rip and one 's head or neck to smash against the hard stone steps .
19 The behaviourist theory of knowledge says that for someone , S , to know or believe that some proposition p is true is for S to be disposed to behave in some way which is supposed to be appropriate to the world 's being as p says .
20 When she arrived at Walsall , she informed Edward that Mrs Noble , after sending her earlier a ‘ vulgar and jeering ’ letter in which ‘ She does her best to make me doubt you ’ , had forbidden them to meet or correspond until Helen reached years of discretion — her twenty-first birthday on 11 July 1898 .
21 This does not , of course , have any bearing upon whether or not there are such laws of social life to discover or imply that the survey method ought to be abandoned .
22 Think how often you see two people struggling to rig or de-rig because they are too embarrassed or independent to ask someone to help .
23 But it ought not to be able to choose either to rescind or complete and preserve its right to claim damages .
24 You will need to warn management of the potentially adverse effects of refusing to appear or to comment and this will need to be set against the fact that having a valid argument does not always guarantee a sympathetic audience .
25 ‘ It 's his choice to come or go as he pleases , ’ he said .
26 It has already been stated that the main aim of the service was to be the construction of flexible packages of care for clients by , firstly , liaising with other services to provide or increase where necessary the client 's receipt of existing services , and , secondly , by ‘ topping up ’ existing services ( where the development officer thought extra care was necessary to maintain someone at home ) through the employment of local support workers .
27 The declaration , with its renewed emphasis on the importance of unity and on the obstacles to it , reads like the triumph of hope over experience : ‘ We urge our clergy and faithful not to neglect or undervalue that certain yet imperfect communion we already share .
28 The girls took advantage of the boys ' sudden inability to catch or shoot and before long the game was over and the girls won 12–8 .
29 The taxing officer hears the parties and decides any issues in dispute , either allowing the item in the bill to stand or disallowing or reducing it .
30 Your brain is for the first time having to struggle and strive and keep really busy , which is great .
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