Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support , and I hope that when my nest book is published they will feel confident enough to treat me just as a novelist and not as a problem . ’ |
| 2 | We shall think that it defies a physical law if we are naive enough to treat it simply as a structureless lump of matter with a certain mass and wind resistance . |
| 3 | His 69 Test wickets cost 38.72 each , and against England he took 28 wickets at 43 — expensive , but good enough to put him high on the list of all-rounders . |
| 4 | Because of properties that we can think of as their ‘ shape ’ , atoms and small molecules tend naturally to pack themselves together in a fixed and orderly manner . |
| 5 | The latter was partly accomplished in your childhood and boyhood ; and it now depends on you alone to raise yourself gradually to a position of eminence , such as no musician has ever obtained . |
| 6 | It is also quick enough to get me somewhere in a hurry if I 'm called out on an emergency . |
| 7 | Just occasionally an electron whose energy is not enough to take it legitimately over the top will nevertheless emerge the other side . |
| 8 | It worried her to think of it , still alive , perhaps to harm someone else in a land she could not name and would never see . |
| 9 | Those in the top left-hand group represent the present and future of the company and should be invested in to push them further into the corner . |
| 10 | But the move to the climax does n't build with inexorable power , the backward placing of the horns and percussion finds the sound wanting , and the emotional grip simply is n't tight enough to pin you helplessly to the wall . |
| 11 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 12 | love is kind enough not to leave them there in the first place . |
| 13 | Thoroughly out of sorts now , she turned away to busy herself unnecessarily with the tray — anything to get away from those black , compelling depths . |
| 14 | To class housework as manual work is thus to put it higher up the scale of job prestige . |
| 15 | " You must always be careful , Monsieur Joseph , not to expose yourself unduly to the sun in the tropics . " |
| 16 | Let him take his chauffeur 's cap off very slowly and say softly to me , ‘ oh sir , I do n't never want to work for anyone else , never ’ ; let him kneel by the side of the great bed , in the moonlight , and let him lean over to kiss me gently on the lips and to run his leather-gloved hand tenderly across my cheek , across my lips , through my hair , saying all the time , ‘ oh sir , I 'm here sir , I 'm right here , I 'm right here by the bed ; was you calling me sir , did you call me ? ’ |
| 17 | She may find it difficult not to regard you still as the child who would do her bidding without question ; and you have to learn to see her , not just as your mother , but as a ‘ person ’ too , with good and bad traits in her character just like everyone else — not expecting silver-haired sainthood from her simply because she gave birth to you . |
| 18 | ‘ He had every reason not to take me seriously as a soldier as he knew how idle I had been in prior days in Layforce . ’ |
| 19 | And try not to touch anybody else during the story . |
| 20 | Terribly difficult not to make it sound like a silly joke . |
| 21 | ‘ Unless she took time off to mind him instead of the cat , ’ said Constance . |
| 22 | This sense of security , derived from developing a basic trust in the people most closely involved in their upbringing , provides the fundamental outline of the personal blueprints children draw on to guide them successfully through the relationships they form in later life . |
| 23 | Although he agreed , it was obviously difficult for Adam to let go of the reins , as Lissa discovered when she arrived at Lynx some time later to find him still on the premises . |
| 24 | I had built him up to play it right to the heart of the green but he played it like a nervous three handicapper . |
| 25 | In practice , it is useful to expose test samples to daylight ( not direct sunlight ) and also to expose them continuously to a battery of fluorescent tubes . |
| 26 | Then she stretched up to kiss him warmly on the lips . |
| 27 | His free hand came up to touch her lightly on the cheek . |
| 28 | Jezrael lashed a hand out to punch him hard on the jaw . |
| 29 | But they had meant it , and he was eager now to bring everybody together in a fine , hard point of resolve , in case zeal slackened and died away in the holiday atmosphere of this soft , comfortable afternoon . |
| 30 | Cathy Foster proved that in the Los Angeles Olympics and is out to prove it again in the Admiral 's Cup . |