Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of a human life-span , the development of a hill-slope takes a very long time , and one could not stay around long enough to test alternative theories of hill-slope development if observation of processes acting on the present landscape produced the only relevant data . |
| 2 | Ah 've not come this far just to put my tail between my legs … |
| 3 | Successive governments have , as expected , deplored this state of affairs but have not done anywhere near enough to remedy it . |
| 4 | These are ‘ low ’ standards compared to those of many other housewives in the sample , and the routine is there , but it is not anchored nearly so securely to set times of the day as Barbara Lipscombe 's . |
| 5 | ‘ But you 're not to fly down low again to try to read the signposts . |
| 6 | He could not go fast enough now to satisfy him . |
| 7 | I cocked the old gun and squeezed the trigger , and it just went forward too slowly to fire a round . |
| 8 | ‘ I have to be honest , Ali , I did n't exactly drive out here just to see you . |
| 9 | Sometimes they cluster on a page like blackberries on a fecund bush , and made me wonder with a stab of unease whether my own writings on American politics and presidents have not managed equally often narrowly to miss the usage and the nomenclature . |
| 10 | Pinkie could still think quite clearly enough to know that he had very little prospect of a new commission . |
| 11 | The machines that American entrepreneurs have always set up so efficiently to execute their Big Ideas are equally footloose . |
| 12 | He describes how in the midst of turning around Ebury Press to a £5 million enterprise , she would still wake up early enough to devote the early morning hours and after work to their children , Georgia , four , and Grace , one . |
| 13 | Most young readers , and I was one of them , were bored by the seeming ponderousness of so much of the narration and probably gave up too soon to grasp the understanding of the American Indian mind it offers and the rapport that can be achieved with an understanding white man , here the legendary ‘ Hawkeye ’ . |
| 14 | Learning now seemed no longer even to require two cells in culture , but could be completely mimicked by squirting serotonin onto an isolated motor neuron . |
| 15 | Fresh tap water is usually heavily treated with chemicals and often chlorinated strongly enough actually to have a chemical smell . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't stay around long enough to check the make , Inspector , ’ I said , pointedly . |
| 17 | Erm bec they do n't speak either very well to start off with . |
| 18 | While it might run Timeworks 3 it does n't do so fast enough to make using it easy . |
| 19 | But she was n't looking up high enough to see something that shifted my pulse rate along a notch or two . |
| 20 | Other forms of life on earth today seem much more closely to resemble what one knows , based on the fossil record , to have been their evolutionary ancestors of many million years past . |
| 21 | You look at your life , and it 's like all the good things you ever wanted are loaded up onto a train that you did n't run quite fast enough to catch . |
| 22 | ‘ I ca n't reach back far enough to pull it out cleanly . ’ |
| 23 | Which is more than can be said of some burger bars and ‘ diners ’ where the staff are young , dour and ca n't get home quick enough to swap their multinational uniforms for day-glo tracksuits and trainers ( I wonder where that fashion came from ? ) . |
| 24 | Born in Scotland he started as a young full-back at Park Head … then after 200 games with Carlisle … he hit the big time with Spurs … that 's when he became pals with Hoddle … at 29 his English career was wrecked by injury … he helped pioneer soccer in the states and then came back home again to coach … |
| 25 | Returning about tea time , he 'd then gone out once more to deliver some computer disks for another project he was running in Heanor . |