Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sara had told her to go to bed , or rather to go and look at the TV programme she wanted to watch . |
| 2 | He was n't going for a joy trip , he was n't going out in the boat just to se to while away an hour or so to relax and to unwind , he was n't going there to , just to get away from the crowd of people that had been following him and had been listening to him , he had a purpose in going in into the boat , to go to the other side . |
| 3 | So you know , I say things like oh I 'm going down to see Zoey now before dinner and like she 'll follow me down or something and I 'll say oh are you going into the saloon or like to try and get her to not come with me , then I feel so guilty I think well poor Marina , you know , she 's here in a foreign country , she has n't got any friends and she 's all by herself and I would n't like it if I was in her position |
| 4 | By an amended respondent 's notice the natural mother supported the local authority 's appeal on the grounds advanced by their notice of appeal and further or alternatively sought to contend that the judge ( 1 ) had been wrong in law , fact or both to hear and determine the applications for leave when the mother was not a party to the applications and was not aware of them and the judge had not been apprised properly or at all of her wishes in the matter ; ( 2 ) had acted contrary to the rules of natural justice and to section 10(9) ( d ) ( ii ) of the Act of 1989 ; and ( 3 ) ought to have required the mother to be notified of the application pursuant to rule 4.3(2) ( b ) of the Family Proceedings Rules 1991 , rule 4.4 and Appendix III . |
| 5 | A principle informing negotiations about consents is to avoid the risk of creating a precedent on appeal injurious to the agency 's interests , a principle of wide applicability , for to appeal and win — or even to appeal and lose — publicizes the possibility of remedy which itself is a threat to the agency 's whip hand . |
| 6 | There is an obvious link here with sadism — the desire to dominate by sexual means or even to damage or destroy . |
| 7 | Personality factors also enter into the equation ; some assessors being known in advance to favour certain lines of enquiry over others , or simply to dislike or to mistrust other individual researchers . |
| 8 | Hypertension is but one among many diseases , and progress has been made similarly in developing new drugs for regulating or adapting other parts of the body : drugs to strengthen the heart , to promote formation of blood , to help blood to clot or to prevent blood from clotting , to aid respiration , to increase the flow of urine , or selectively to increase or to diminish the amount of some selected component , to prevent conception or to promote fertility , drugs to stimulate the production of hormones or to block their actions , drugs to influence some particular aspect of the metabolism , and so on . |
| 9 | It 's better to get comfortable with the approach in a situation where you are confident , like a weekly meeting , than suddenly to try and implement it when you are in a more testing situation , like an important sales presentation . |
| 10 | Jinny rattled on , less from politeness than just to try and cover the terrible , wooden silence . |
| 11 | In 1984 , it became common for bail conditions , following arrests during the strike , to require those charged not to visit any premises or place for the purpose of picketing or demonstrating in connection with the current trade dispute between the NUM and the National Coal Board other than peacefully to picket or demonstrate at their usual place of employment . |
| 12 | Unnerved by his betrayal nightmare , he wanted more desperately than ever to escape and flee . |
| 13 | That could , that needs to be maintained , it could also be extended , though of course they have great difficulties because of er their , their own financial restrictions , but we also , I think as a community , need to think about who these homeless people are , and , and not to regard them as some kind of alien population , but to realise that there are , they are our own neighbours , they are our own families that are in this predicament , and that collectively we need to join together and actually make demands on central government and locally to try and do something about it . |
| 14 | Like many I have supported this union 's policy my C L P , but also like many I have been hurt and angered by the attempts of some of the Party , both nationally and locally to deride and belittle the unions as a thing of the past and not relevant to the Party 's new media image and that working class issues were not worth presenting at elections because they are unpopular with the tabloids . |
| 15 | ‘ To attempt , in some intuition of evil , to understand them , to enact them , and so to activate and reveal the evil in one 's own soul . ’ |
| 16 | And so to try and bring them to heel , er we referred the matter to the district . |
| 17 | The derivation of original research proposals is never easy , but to participate in their creation and perhaps to stimulate or catalyse them can be very exciting when there are no artificial restrictions on what can be done . |
| 18 | There are two contradictory images ; an idealised one is of a benign , wise , peaceful old person , available to listen and perhaps to advise and to draw valuably upon life experience . |
| 19 | It is good for leaders to be aware of these if only to see that to gather together towards the Lord may take some time . |
| 20 | within the first-aiders and the , and obviously to try and try and drive it to them on that issue . |
| 21 | To co-operate with other organisations whose aims are similar or complementary to those of the Society and generally to spread and encourage interest in Medau Rhythmic Movement in Great Britain and Northern Ireland . |
| 22 | To co-operate with other organisations whose aims are similar or complementary to those of the Society and generally to spread and encourage interest in Medau Rhythmic Movement in Great Britain and Northern Ireland . |
| 23 | Normally , the first step in any process is to select an option from an index page , and thereafter to request or provide information on display pages . |
| 24 | It has the advantage that it does not cause corrosion to galvanised cisterns , but is now more expensive than copper and harder to bend and to join . |
| 25 | I tried again and harder to work and felt restless and uneasy . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's become harder and harder to smile or laugh out there during an international match . |
| 27 | One of the functions of the marketing expert in commerce and industry is to develop a clear idea of the target market and also to identify and axe both unprofitable product lines and unprofitable customers . |
| 28 | erm and also to try and work out which speakers are which |
| 29 | Such cautionary tales lost nothing in the telling , and they served to elevate the power of the shrines of the saints , and also to protect and strengthen the right of asylum claimed for churches in Roman Law and in the Church canons . |
| 30 | 2 To prepare the patient physically and psychologically to avoid or minimize the risk of post-operative complications . |