Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
5 | Seals have almost spherical lenses and can not flatten them enough to see far through the air . |
6 | He found it and obviously felt at ease enough to go ahead with the appointment , ’ said Mr King . |
7 | Most of them would not go on , but three were brave enough to go down into the valley . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | ‘ 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | I wanted only to go down to the summer-house and watch the leaves falling until night fell with them . |
12 | If this is the case the end of the U-wire is broad enough to sit comfortably in the palm of the hand . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 ) . |
16 | 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 ? |
17 | We got in to drive down to the medina . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | He prophesied that there was no man or woman big enough to stand forever in the way of the Labour Party achieving their aims . |
20 | And for those determined enough to stand out from the crowd by virtue of understatement , that may well be enough . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Nothing is more infuriating than reading about something that appeals to you , only to find out at the end that you are not eligible . |
23 | All you need for each one is a piece of knitting beginning with a hem at the wrist , wide enough to go round the hand and long enough to reach easily to the base of the fingers . |
24 | ‘ Find a stick long enough to reach up to the cab , ’ he said . |
25 | You stand a better chance if you put something with the Sunday and even then that might not be completely enough to reach down to the crevices , but I think some method , and that 's why I suggested surgeries actually , was that we have to talk regularly to people face to face and once you 're in a room with people then it goes , does n't it ? |
26 | Waves burst over the cockpit into the saloon only to pour out through the manhole each time the bridge-deck broke free for a moment . |
27 | I put forward the idea to Mme Bluot that , rather than sit either side of a table , reminding Didier of school and his failure to keep up , he and I would do better to talk down by the river , in the park , even in the Café du Coin . |
28 | Bending forward , she trailed her mouth delicately across the bridge of his nose to his cheek , then down to hover tantalisingly at the corner of his mouth . |
29 | We have only to look back to the debates about language across the curriculum to remember the puerile arguments over whose responsibility it was to teach language skills . |
30 | Again I had to resort to cutting down her weight , so that she 'd be hungry enough to focus more on the food . |