Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just decided to put it in to see if it tastes better . |
| 2 | I just decided to put it in to see if it tastes better . |
| 3 | And er something I switched the erm recorder on just before you walked in to see if it recorded . |
| 4 | This is not to reject the approach out of hand ; but merely to acknowledge that it has weaknesses . |
| 5 | Kate felt inordinately pleased at his offer , even though she was astute enough to know that it came from a desire for any company , rather than hers specifically . |
| 6 | She did n't know very much about romance , to be sure , just enough to know that it seemed to be a force that did not like to be tamed and squeezed into the orderly compartments of people 's lives . |
| 7 | Then another smashed the window and grabbed a bag — only to discover that it contained just 1p . |
| 8 | Further suppose that he had tried Kant 's remedy of being kind to his dogs , only to discover that it served merely to fan the flames of his misanthropy . |
| 9 | Arriving at the edge of the quay , Fitzroy Maclean attempted to inflate it , only to discover that it had a puncture . |
| 10 | If , as naïve young hunters , they attacked a brightly coloured prey , bit it and started to chew it , only to discover that it had a foul taste or a poisonous secretion , they would probably remember it for the rest of their lives . |
| 11 | We 've heard of a small baby who chewed through a gift and swallowed a battery , and of a granny who bought one of those talking baby dolls for her favourite grandaughter , only to find that it had a vocabulary of four-letter words . |
| 12 | Many women have seen a new and demanding career at midlife as their way to satisfaction , only to find that it becomes a prime cause of problems for their husband . |
| 13 | We know this because sometimes we may use a word which we ourselves consider innocuous , only to find that it produces a strong emotional response in someone else . |
| 14 | It is acknowledged , however , that in its efforts to support the capitalist system , politically and economically , the capitalist state creates and expands public and social services only to find that it does not have the required resources to meet the growing cost of the public sector . |
| 15 | The church is to be distinctive from the rest of the world ; people around us are familiar with a way of life where rank and wealth matter , and people want to achieve what they think matters — only to find that it does n't satisfy them ; God 's people are to have a way of life which is based on equality in God 's sight , and not be measured in terms of social standing . |
| 16 | If you are playing Dwarf Wars , for example , the adventurers might reach Hargrim 's tomb only to find that it has been defiled and looted . |
| 17 | But a final word of caution : venturis are temperamental , and to enclose yours within a blockwork wall , only to find that it did n't work properly , would be frustrating . |
| 18 | It just sort of come in to land and it veered off the runway as such . |
| 19 | A range of frequencies wide enough to ensure that it encompasses the resonant frequency of the sample v r is then examined . |
| 20 | Clearly something does happen in higher education ; it is not enough to argue that it trains an elite and to leave it at that . |
| 21 | Drop a spot of highly volatile liquid on such a wing and the colours disappear as the liquid occludes the physical structure , only to reappear as it evaporates and the light is splintered once more . |
| 22 | To see that this is the case , annotate each term below to say whether it belongs to the typical register of the birthday card or the register of the legal contract ( even if you have never seen a legal contract you can probably do this ) . |
| 23 | This is not to say that such comment is wholly wrong ; merely to say that it lacks precision , finesse . |
| 24 | She had been foolish enough to ask if it had a name . |
| 25 | This simple rule , embodied in the Rights of Way Act , which on its wording at least applies to ways by water as well as land , states that to recognize a way as public one needs only to show that it has been freely and openly used by the public for 20 years . |
| 26 | It 's almost worth advertising alcohol just to preserve the lobbying the brewers indulge in to prove that it does n't encourage young people to drink , just for the sight of their endless statistics that prove that all this money they spend on advertising is n't making anybody buy their product : run this by me again , why are you doing it ? |
| 27 | But not to see that it exists shows a surprising ( and therefore interesting ) blindness . |
| 28 | This was one of the few liberties taken by the film 's editors , as no B–17 quite arrived that way on December 7 , but the shot was clearly too good not to include and it approximated to what had happened to a number of the actual B–17s which stumbled into the attack . |
| 29 | Just to see if it works . |
| 30 | Clarke had said the same thing and she had tried desperately to comply but it had been like trying to lay hold of darting butterflies . |