Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man who brought us hits Like Ferry Cross the Mersey and You 'll Never Walk Alone is on a nationwide tour , but stopped off just long enough to talk to Mike Rowbottom . |
| 2 | He peered out just long enough to see distant trees sweeping by much too fast , and stuck his head down again . |
| 3 | Supposing , however , the defence has to cope with attackers pushing up just far enough to catch them on the turn and stay onside . |
| 4 | Morgan Grenfell shares , up 14p to 485p before the news , dropped immediately to 430p , before bouncing back almost as quickly to close unchanged at 468p . |
| 5 | Second , the axial spin rate of the Earth 4600 Ma ago can be estimated using the principle of conservation of angular momentum by giving the Earth all the present angular momentum of the Moon plus the orbital angular momentum of the Earth and the Moon around their centre of mass : the Earth spins nowhere near fast enough to have spun off lunar material and no very plausible means have been suggested whereby the Earth-Moon system could since have lost the necessarily copious amount of angular momentum . |
| 6 | Finally , there is a third kind of solution , in which the universe is expanding only just fast enough to avoid recollapse . |
| 7 | Once I know how fast my ‘ feeder is emptying , or have made it empty at the pace I require , I cast very frequently for the first twenty minutes or so — as fast as the emptying of the ‘ feeder will allow — and then slow down only just enough to keep a steady trickle of feed through the swim . |
| 8 | Eleven minutes of the second half gone , Shrewsbury Town three , Blackburn Rovers one , Kevin , Steve with a penalty and Tommy the young Irishman doing so well tonight here to get those goals for Shrewsbury , we 're going off to Neil . |
| 9 | ‘ It will be disastrous for many old folk , as the pensions wo n't go up anywhere near enough to offset the charges . ’ |
| 10 | It was written in sub Gone with the Wind style , was longer than the American Civil War and took almost as long again to identify what sort of food was actually on offer from amongst the jokey prose . |
| 11 | Does the right hon. Gentleman recognise that the figures that he has announced for training and education will go nowhere near far enough to fill the skills gap ? |
| 12 | We do not have to go quite so far afield to find another language which still plays a considerable part in our daily conversation . |
| 13 | Now locate the drilled side just a shade higher so that as you hammer the pin in place it moves down just far enough to produce a perfect joint . |
| 14 | Er , I gather that the last letter that had from you dated the twenty fourth of November in which you say that you will get back as quite soon to decide whether you want to apply for one of these erm erm ways of dealing with the problem or not . |
| 15 | I 've worked too damned hard just to let everything be ruined because of unsavoury gossip . |
| 16 | Five weeks later , on 13 November , Southey and Edith Fricker were secretly married in the same church , Southey setting off almost immediately afterwards to spend six months with his uncle in Portugal , leaving Edith behind . |