Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diniz also had stayed , and had found his way out into the yard , and the broken pillars of the loggia , where he had found somewhere to sit out of the wind . |
| 2 | That little faith went on to go right round the world and it 's here today . |
| 3 | More and more armies were becoming reliable though still very cumbersome machines , mechanisms which could be relied on to perform competently on the battlefield the evolutions in which they had been trained , and to stand enemy fire without flinching . |
| 4 | Having studied painting at St Martin 's School of Art , London , 1951–55 she went on to work variously as a consultant designer , art teacher , illustrator , Joint Board Examiner and raiser of her four children . |
| 5 | By Saturday they had both recovered sufficiently to fall in with the rest of the company for pay parade , waiting in a long queue to collect five shillings each from the paymaster . |
| 6 | Seals have almost spherical lenses and can not flatten them enough to see far through the air . |
| 7 | He found it and obviously felt at ease enough to go ahead with the appointment , ’ said Mr King . |
| 8 | Most of them would not go on , but three were brave enough to go down into the valley . |
| 9 | Shop manager , Jim Willcock 's been allowed home from hospital , but he 's not well enough to go back to the co-op in Cam . |
| 10 | ‘ Now they are working hard to get me fit enough to go back on the list — and they 're the only ones giving me hope , ’ says Anthony . |
| 11 | She could almost imagine the door opening and Isabelle coming in to sit down at the dressing-table with its pretty antique tortoiseshell and silver toilet set , humming softly as she loved to do . |
| 12 | I wanted only to go down to the summer-house and watch the leaves falling until night fell with them . |
| 13 | If this is the case the end of the U-wire is broad enough to sit comfortably in the palm of the hand . |
| 14 | Hot enough to sit out in the Piazza studded with big brown and green palms against the rose-coloured stucco of the buildings and perhaps try a first ricotta ice-cream . |
| 15 | But no one else could sustain Ambrose 's pressure , stomach cramps that forced Patterson to leave the field after seven overs was a further handicap and Wessels and Kirsten , the two most experience batsmen , dug in to remain together till the close , their stand then worth 95 . |
| 16 | This pipe , called the discharge pipe , soil pipe or soil stack , runs vertically down to connect directly to the drains ; the top of it is open to the air at least 900mm above the top of any opening windows which are within 3m of the stack , unless a relief valve is fitted to the top of the stack ( see drawing ) . |
| 17 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 18 | In a fierce , raw and , at times , downright nasty battle , Barnes led his besieged troops to glory only to hit out in a variety of directions afterwards . |
| 19 | We got in to drive down to the medina . |
| 20 | The problem is to develop a device which as well as demonstrating a high degree of efficiency in converting wave energy into electricity , is also robust enough to stand up to the buffeting and corrosion of the sea . |
| 21 | He prophesied that there was no man or woman big enough to stand forever in the way of the Labour Party achieving their aims . |
| 22 | And for those determined enough to stand out from the crowd by virtue of understatement , that may well be enough . |
| 23 | With some misgivings , Wolfgang settled down to work steadily at a stream of compositions , beginning with the Italian serenata Il sogno di Scipione ( Scipio 's Dream ) for the ceremonial enthronement of the new archbishop on 14 March 1772 . |
| 24 | The President-elect got straight down to work yesterday with a meeting with the team responsible for easing his passage into power on January 20 . |
| 25 | In the end she made the decision to combine Episodes Three and Four together , losing one whole episode entirely to tighten up on the drama . |
| 26 | She glimpsed again that girlish figure momentarily outlined against the walls of the abbey only to slip away like a wraith and be lost among the shadows of the beach . |
| 27 | She swam in what she hoped was the direction of the stairs , only to come up against a wall . |
| 28 | In workplace after workplace we find exploited workers , frightened workers , vulnerable workers , but little chance of recognition no hope of check-off and no one brave enough to come forward as a steward . |
| 29 | But none of them had been interested enough to come up with an offer . |
| 30 | Nothing is more infuriating than reading about something that appeals to you , only to find out at the end that you are not eligible . |