Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally the wind carries the voices too far away for the listener immediately below to hear . |
| 2 | He moved up through the system rapidly enough to make his mark without looking flashy . |
| 3 | Sean took his eyes off the road long enough to turn and give her an astonished look . |
| 4 | Doohan eases off the throttle just enough to bring the Honda approximately into line before he keels her over once again . |
| 5 | But the establishment of these facts is only one step on the way to a consideration of whether , in all the circumstances , the situation created by the delay is such as to make it an unfair employment of the powers of the court any longer to hold the defendant to account . |
| 6 | Thomson recreates the Australian Fifties with more than a cursory skill and catches the censorious , more petit bourgeois than the English tone of the times well enough to convince . |
| 7 | One of the major problems I 've encountered with this review is actually keeping hold of the guitar long enough to form my own opinion . |
| 8 | The crucial feature is the irrecoverable loss by a patient of the ability ever again to sustain his own breathing and heartbeat , as a consequence of the total destruction of a functioning brain-stem . |
| 9 | Heat the thread of the bulb very carefully to melt the glue , remove thread slowing drawing out the filament , do not break the electrical or filament will , just wo n't work pour the liquid into the bulb and slowly lower the filament back dipped in some . |
| 10 | Is the role of the media then only to present information to us with objectivity and factually ? |
| 11 | As you knit , the needles that are selected to tuck move forward of the needlebed far enough to collect the yarn , but not far enough for the stitch on the needle to go behind the latch and knit off . |
| 12 | He smiled too , and stabbed me in the gut with the gun-barrel hard enough to make me suck in my breath . |
| 13 | Rosé Champagne is achieved either by blending or by allowing the black grape skins ( Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier ) to stay in contact with the juice long enough to impart a pale rose colour . |
| 14 | He 's dealt with the King too often to want influence , even with Isambard . |
| 15 | The Metropolitan Borough of Wigan has been sufficiently impressed with the results so far to finance the printing of enough copies for the first year pupils of three comprehensive schools beginning in September 1985 . |
| 16 | The Bank stepped into the markets early yesterday to steady a bout of selling in the European markets . |
| 17 | Mandy managed to pull herself away from the glasses long enough to roll green eyes at her cousin and wrinkle her freckled nose . |
| 18 | Niall took his eyes from the road long enough to glance in her direction . |
| 19 | An unmarked Ford Escort pulled out from the kerb slow enough to give me plenty of time to ease up and reach for the horn . |
| 20 | She had not even been in the country long enough to register with a doctor . |
| 21 | It 's not been in the water long enough to corrode . |
| 22 | On the other hand , if we look at a later decision-making episode in the same project when the pupils are temporarily in role as Indians who have to decide whether or not to receive a white stranger into their midst ( p. 53 ) , this is more likely to have been played seriously as a real game for by then the children , after several lessons on the same project , were steeped in the material sufficiently deeply to respect the rich complexity of the problem . |
| 23 | When I had been in the attic long enough to have tidied and cleaned the cupboards , and put a shine on the ancient chest of drawers and wardrobe , I settled to knit Jean-Claude sweaters and socks . |
| 24 | I have been in the House long enough to know that it is not appropriate for me to comment on evidence given to a Select Committee until that Committee has reported . |
| 25 | Masklin had lived in the Store long enough to know that where there was a lamp , there was a wire . |
| 26 | The same applies to Eckhard Pfeiffer , who has certainly turned Compaq Computer Corp around for the time being , but has not been in the job long enough to demonstrate proven staying power . |
| 27 | Some field men have been in the job long enough to have seen the protection of the environment become a matter of considerable public concern . |
| 28 | The Tilean had obviously been in the Empire long enough to look to its patron deity , Sigmar of the Hammer , for protection . |
| 29 | Dixon had been in the business long enough to convey by a subtle nuance of tone that the Chief Constable was not in an amiable mood . |
| 30 | To begin with , only the coincidence of the deaths of father and son within four days of each other ; beyond that his notion of a connection had been no more than a hunch , and he had been in the business too long to back his hunches far ahead of evidence . |