Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pipe feeding the power steering system came adrift on the climb oil to pump out of the hydraulic system , and Fisher seized the opportunity to start building a lead that was eventually to carry him to a record fourth successive Lakes victory . |
| 2 | For the past two years The Fellow , who is half a thoroughbred , half trotter , has come to the final fence with Europe 's classic steeplechase seemingly won , only to lose it by a whisker on the run-in . |
| 3 | It was easy enough to spot them in the distance if they were in a clearing on the mountainside , but extremely difficult to detect them as Abdullahi and I approached through a tangle of giant heath that rose far above our heads . |
| 4 | Merely to connect her with the Battle of Trafalgar liquefied him a little further because it moved him . |
| 5 | Certainly the Gulf Stream is quite strong enough to carry them across the Atlantic to the shores of Europe . |
| 6 | Time enough and soon enough to greet them in the morning 's light when the men would have said their prayers and the womenfolk would have been to Mass and a stranger with a fiddle might be a welcome diversion from the day 's chores . |
| 7 | ‘ She had spirit enough to fling herself from the tower to be free of you . |
| 8 | that 's almost certainly enough to nail it to the floor I would have thought . |
| 9 | ‘ How I loathe people who raise one 's hopes , only to dash them to the ground ! ’ |
| 10 | Ultimately , the urge to move on that afflicted so many media people , and Florian more severely than most , would demand satisfaction , but she suspected that Luke would be shrewd enough to tempt him with an offer of his choice of all the other stations in which he had an interest . |
| 11 | Still not enough to tempt you from the tourist route ? |
| 12 | To follow the close-up of the pre-headed letter , the first shot should show all the performers together to establish them in the setting . |
| 13 | Be able to make a load and strong enough to pitch it into the stack , that was the problem . |
| 14 | Supposing , however , the defence has to cope with attackers pushing up just far enough to catch them on the turn and stay onside . |
| 15 | You 've been clever enough to catch me in a honeytrap partly of my own making ! |
| 16 | After a few weeks , Mr Sowerberry decided that he liked Oliver 's appearance enough to train him in the undertaking business . |
| 17 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 18 | The fact that such an occupation was un-likely to provide him with a living did nothing to deter him . |
| 19 | He had fled the invading Germans , only to find himself in a society he hated for its philistinism and prudery . |
| 20 | Their house , Carceri , is a complex world of ancient stone galleries and courtyards , with weird ( and scheduled ) spiral staircases that you go up only to find yourself on the floor below the one you started on — an old dungeon perched among the treetops on a hillside overlooking the city , which they found by a miracle , and had converted . |
| 21 | It felt good to talk about it , to describe her sense of total humiliation at having , as it were , bared herself to Matthew only to find him in a dressing gown , with some … strumpet drinking coffee with her dress half-unbuttoned . |
| 22 | to provide me with the reference , would you be kind enough to provide me with a reference and send it via oh my God ! |
| 23 | The capital was large enough to provide them with the anonymity they badly needed . |
| 24 | By 1864 his interest in Christianity and his deference to family expectations were still strong enough to lead him to the choice of theology as one of his two subjects at Bonn ; but there is no doubt that belief was a thing of the past . |
| 25 | But if that was the case and doctors told me I would have to stop drinking , I 'd like to think I 'd be brave enough to drink myself into the grave . |
| 26 | That recent ideas about immunosuppressive drugs , auto-immune syndromes and tumour viruses should join together to express themselves as a disease seems only to be expected . |
| 27 | The grieving widow was rich and powerful enough to hound anyone through the courts . |
| 28 | She wanted only to rid herself of the blocks Ewan had inflicted on her and lose herself in a new future . |
| 29 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 30 | Anyone daft enough to chuck themselves off a cliff — ’ |