Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] a [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 | You 've been clever enough to catch me in a honeytrap partly of my own making ! |
| 4 | The fact that such an occupation was un-likely to provide him with a living did nothing to deter him . |
| 5 | He had fled the invading Germans , only to find himself in a society he hated for its philistinism and prudery . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | to provide me with the reference , would you be kind enough to provide me with a reference and send it via oh my God ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Anyone daft enough to chuck themselves off a cliff — ’ |
| 10 | She wondered if Ethel would relent and change her back , or whether she might be really wicked enough to leave her as a frog , for ever . |
| 11 | Twice he needed to have attention from a doctor on the course but battled on to record a four under par 66 which was good enough to leave him in a tie for 9th place , nine shots behind the winner , Eduardo Romero from the Argentine . |
| 12 | But these were risky gains : with little animal manure and no capital , the peasant broke up more land than he could use , only to abandon it in a drought or when prices fell . |
| 13 | Its regional press and magazine holdings went back some time but were not large enough to qualify it as a media company . |
| 14 | First he 'd been crazy enough to subdue her with a kiss which , though it had begun in anger , had aroused a need for her so hot and instant that it had stunned him more than her slap , and now this . |
| 15 | Whenever I go in a minicab on my way to a radio or television programme — the companies are kind enough to take us in a car — I end up discussing with the driver how he has come to Britain in the fairly recent past and now has a job driving round London . |
| 16 | Well , Mrs Davis , I ca n't promise you a rise ( and I certainly would n't be bold enough to ask you for a hug ! ) but what I can offer you is the chance to choose between a substantial pay-rise … £1,500 a year … and a cheque for the generous sum of £15,000 . |
| 17 | For Lawrence to give his imprimatur to the idea of the Commonwealth seemed sufficient rebuttal to anyone rude enough to associate it with a loss of imperial virility . |
| 18 | It swooped down towards Risborough and he managed to control it enough to bring it into a field |
| 19 | ‘ But we do n't want him just to put them into a cupboard ? ’ |
| 20 | In the end I pretended to be worried that I had left my bicycle lamp on and dashed outside to relieve myself in a flower-bed . |
| 21 | So do you think that erm when this law was erm pushed through in nineteen forty seven that er perhaps Mao you know well I think there 's been a bit of excess now , I think we 'll do some we just need , we just need a bit of a rush now just to take us through a bit and then we 'll stop it in a few months time . |
| 22 | The garnet-work on the sword , however , may indicate Gothic influence , although the use of garnets was soon to become something of a speciality of the Franks . |
| 23 | For the Conservative party which is in essence a party of power , huge historic perspective , huge experience of power , ever to get itself in a position where it 's perceived to be struggling to the point of self destruction , would have its political consequences and they would be dire . |
| 24 | She was lying in a freezing ditch , still with her pet dog , four days after she left home to take it for a walk . |
| 25 | Once their canvasses showed majority support for the proposal , they moved quickly to bring it to a vote , thereby avoiding the public debate which had accompanied past efforts at prohibiting honoraria . |
| 26 | The English clerk would work doubly hard , either to resolve the problem or carefully to hide it behind a tissue of half-truths . |
| 27 | In order to get a response in subject searching , the user has had not only to specify his needs but also to specify them in a way that " matches " the system . |
| 28 | The key words , which were later to become something of a catch-phrase , were ‘ fresh start ’ . |
| 29 | It was intended purely to acquaint us with a field of art historical research to which we had very limited access and to give us the opportunity of establishing a dialogue . |
| 30 | It 's since been a cafe , a grill and a bric-a-brac shop , with plans now to turn it into a museum and heritage centre ; something Browne Willis would doubtless have approved of . |