Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is it all right for you to say sixty-fifth floor ? ’ |
| 2 | It was not enough for him to call individual sinners to God . |
| 3 | Even he had definite symptomatic and endoscopic benefit from additional radiotherapy and his general conditioned improved enough for him to undergo successful surgery . |
| 4 | It was n't George felt quite enough for him to renew any promises about alcohol . |
| 5 | Mike spent more than 30 days waiting on one or other of the platforms , and it was not until the last day that the colobus monkeys came close enough for him to get good shots of them moving through the trees . |
| 6 | that 's for the name , yeah so , so , some of them will be confused , but not enough for them to have any problems I should n't have thought . |
| 7 | The aim of creating a sense of prime loyalty among members of the colony , which was small enough for them to know each other , did not constitute any kind of a threat to central authorities in 1922 , but it would not have been tolerated in the 1930s , when family members were encouraged to spy on one another in the state interest . |
| 8 | The flat roof of our own house was high enough for me to see two summer screens for free . |
| 9 | On the other hand we are fortunate indeed if we happen to be in a business that is so secure that it is enough for us to make effortless decisions that never require us to do more than flow along with established patterns . |
| 10 | As Bobby Lavender talked and his relations tried to eat their lunch , a police helicopter hovered , its rotor blades occasionally too loud for us to hear each other . |
| 11 | The Local Authority decides the balance between social good and economic efficiency and Governing Bodies need to work together with them to negotiate favourable terms . |
| 12 | Stewart , who is retiring after guiding England for six years , watched four players who owe much to him play key roles . |
| 13 | All around him rode many squadrons of Rajput cavalry whose armour glittered from afar . |
| 14 | It would be just like her to expect some recompense for whoever caused the crash . |
| 15 | For years father had been nagging away at him to take some interest and prove he had the Miletti flair , yet as soon as he tried to show a bit of initiative everyone got on their high horse about it , father especially , calling him a worthless junkie and I do n't what else besides . |
| 16 | As late as the eighteenth century some of the most renowned painters of France , Boucher , Lancret and Watteau among them , found it no more beneath them to paint gallant scenes on the artificial eggs presented by the king to members of his court at Easter than Cellini did to be called on to unpick the precious stones from Clement VII 's tiara as the Imperial troops advanced to sack Rome in 1527 . |
| 17 | You can leave that stuff on practically forever without it doing any harm . ’ |
| 18 | Stuck at work all day with no-one to come home to at night — all very well for you sitting holding hands with Ted with little Frieda watching , you do n't know what it 's like , being on your own , not really — ’ |
| 19 | Yelling a warning , which would have been far too late anyway , she watched in astonishment as Leo pivoted on one foot , and with a movement too fast for her to follow pinned Ryan up against the wall by his throat . |
| 20 | what somebody comes to that , tomorrow and knocks at that door and says look I 've been sent here by you say good bye , good night , good luck nothing has been said to me , I |
| 21 | ‘ All the more reason then for them to have some knowledge of basic skills — ‘ |
| 22 | " In his seventh year his [ foster ] father took him and placed him in the care of a man of experience and promptly sent him abroad with him to learn foreign languages and begin at once to study books . |
| 23 | Would either of them reach compact disc standard international stardom and , if they did , would they soften into insignificance or would they , could they , remain essential and innovative ? |
| 24 | Can either of you see any landmark you know ? ’ |
| 25 | We neither of us had much interest in contemporary British poets , but were united in our enthusiasm for Elizabeth Bishop , Marianne Moore , W. S. Merwin , Wallace Stevens , William Carios Williams , Charles Reznikoff , Theodore Roethke and Richard Wilbur . |
| 26 | The car three ahead of him moved three yards . |