Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah 've not come this far just to put my tail between my legs … |
| 2 | Successive governments have , as expected , deplored this state of affairs but have not done anywhere near enough to remedy it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He could not go fast enough now to satisfy him . |
| 5 | I cocked the old gun and squeezed the trigger , and it just went forward too slowly to fire a round . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Pinkie could still think quite clearly enough to know that he had very little prospect of a new commission . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Fresh tap water is usually heavily treated with chemicals and often chlorinated strongly enough actually to have a chemical smell . |
| 10 | Erm bec they do n't speak either very well to start off with . |
| 11 | While it might run Timeworks 3 it does n't do so fast enough to make using it easy . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ? ) . |