Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support , and I hope that when my nest book is published they will feel confident enough to treat me just as a novelist and not as a problem . ’ |
| 2 | We shall think that it defies a physical law if we are naive enough to treat it simply as a structureless lump of matter with a certain mass and wind resistance . |
| 3 | Stylishly made but inherently daft , unlike the other ghost movies Flatliners does tackle the unpaid debts of the past , but only to write them off in the most superficial way . |
| 4 | His 69 Test wickets cost 38.72 each , and against England he took 28 wickets at 43 — expensive , but good enough to put him high on the list of all-rounders . |
| 5 | ‘ It was n't enough to put us back in the World Cup contention . |
| 6 | I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round . |
| 7 | HOW COMFORTING TO KNOW THAT WHEN ONE IS FINDING CITY LIFE A TRIFLE TIRESOME , ONE HAS FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO INVITE ONE OUT FOR A DAY IN THE COUNTRY … |
| 8 | Because of properties that we can think of as their ‘ shape ’ , atoms and small molecules tend naturally to pack themselves together in a fixed and orderly manner . |
| 9 | The latter was partly accomplished in your childhood and boyhood ; and it now depends on you alone to raise yourself gradually to a position of eminence , such as no musician has ever obtained . |
| 10 | It is also quick enough to get me somewhere in a hurry if I 'm called out on an emergency . |
| 11 | Worthless character had now run foul of the law and was willing to take one final payment , enough to get him out of the State , and out of her life for ever . |
| 12 | There was no sign of the son , an undersized , sly creature who had spent more time in prison than out of it ever since he had been old enough to get himself down to the city and into trouble . |
| 13 | Thinking you were Napoleon was clearly not enough to get you out of the Wimbledon Islamic Boys ' Independent Day School . |
| 14 | The boys aim only to get one over on the girls while the girls dream of being romantically swept off their feet . |
| 15 | If he fixed a price with the buyer , and the buyer asked for Modigliani 's address , the painter was likely to give away his work at a lower price or offer it as a present if the purchaser was shrewd enough to take him out for a meal and a few drinks . |
| 16 | Just occasionally an electron whose energy is not enough to take it legitimately over the top will nevertheless emerge the other side . |
| 17 | It worried her to think of it , still alive , perhaps to harm someone else in a land she could not name and would never see . |
| 18 | But the move to the climax does n't build with inexorable power , the backward placing of the horns and percussion finds the sound wanting , and the emotional grip simply is n't tight enough to pin you helplessly to the wall . |
| 19 | But despite Mr McDonald 's frantic efforts , the kiss of life was not enough to bring him back from the dead . |
| 20 | It 's just to pick you up on a couple of points . |
| 21 | MIDDLESBROUGH Bears , facing their first Homefire League match of the 1992 season in only two weeks ' time , need another good result against Glasgow at Cleveland Park tonight to fire them up for a long and hard campaign . |
| 22 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 23 | Thoroughly out of sorts now , she turned away to busy herself unnecessarily with the tray — anything to get away from those black , compelling depths . |
| 24 | To class housework as manual work is thus to put it higher up the scale of job prestige . |
| 25 | you see his expenditure was er , he , he , he , just to put it down to a very minor thing , you 're spending four pound a week |
| 26 | She turned away to get something out of the fridge , which turned out to be a glass bowl full of trifle . |
| 27 | Just to get them out of the house . |
| 28 | " They claimed that they ought to be [ treated as ] free coloni by birth , and that Deodadus the monk [ responsible for running the Mitry estate ] wanted unjustly to bend them down into an inferior service by force , and to afflict them . " |
| 29 | Rescuers have tried unsuccessfully to drive them out into the open sea using a line of boats with their engines running . |
| 30 | Although he agreed , it was obviously difficult for Adam to let go of the reins , as Lissa discovered when she arrived at Lynx some time later to find him still on the premises . |