Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three times through the winter , Cascade had been within days of being fully formed , only to fall down at the last minute . |
| 2 | BARRY LANE produced a best-of-the-week 66 to come from eight behind to force a tie with Jose-Maria Canizares ( 74 ) in the Rome Masters at windswept Castelgandolfo yesterday , only to lose out at the fourth play-off hole . |
| 3 | Then another gap , just six months , before he got a barmaid from Ipswich who 'd been visiting her granny and was daft enough to wait alone for the late bus . |
| 4 | Perhaps Jeremy Bates , who with his partner , Neil Broad , were ranked sufficiently highly to go straight into the main draw for the doubles , might have considered the position of his partner a little more sympathetically . |
| 5 | Such is the experience of most of us when we go to bed late : we might sleep slightly later than usual but rarely long enough to compensate completely for the late night . |
| 6 | Very soon , they eat enough to pass on to the next stage of their life cycle . |
| 7 | ‘ If you 'd be kind enough to come down to the front door , I 'll explain everything . ’ |
| 8 | He was too alert not to catch the look and he was swift enough to look down in the same instant at his cup . |
| 9 | Like most Chinese children unfortunate enough to grow up in the Sixties , Zeng 's education was severely disrupted by the Cultural Revolution , and he had to sit through the shouting matches and brain-washing sessions just as everyone else did . |
| 10 | ‘ We have only to put together in the right way what we know without adding anything , and the satisfaction we are trying to get from the explanation comes of itself . ’ |
| 11 | Manuel had quietly melted away , perhaps to leave the stage clear for Andy , perhaps to grieve alone at the cruel injustice that had robbed him of the top prize . |
| 12 | He has a tendency to give abstract theory in unnecessarily dense language without examples ; this is difficult to absorb , and consequently , when we reach the extended analyses in Chapter 5 , there is a temptation constantly to flick back to the earlier chapters to try to clarify the theory . |
| 13 | KERRY Matthew ran the race of her life on Saturday only to finish agonisingly outside the English Schools Championships qualifying time . |
| 14 | He was n't strong enough to get on to the par-5s in two for eagle chances , so he just chipped and putted for birdies . |
| 15 | The probability is low for it to move a long distance at more than the speed of light , but it can go faster than light for just far enough to get out of the black hole , and then go slower than light . |
| 16 | It would be ironic to pick away at the mortar for a few decades only to break through into the next-door cell . |
| 17 | If only to get on to the practical arrangements . ’ |
| 18 | So to get back to the serious matter Mr Mayor if I may . |
| 19 | Delicate creamy-yellow ‘ E P Bowles ’ stays open just long enough to contrast beautifully with the pale mauve flowers and bright orange stamens of Crocus tommasinianus . |
| 20 | By now you will have stimulated the circulation enough to move on to the next stage , which is kneading . |
| 21 | The architect , Bogdan Bogdanovic , whose entire career has been devoted to the tragic commemoration of war victims , is one of the very few Serbians brave enough to speak out against the current Serbian aggression . |
| 22 | But that one painted notice is not enough to make up for the shabby doors , scruffy brickwork , and grimy frosted glass . |
| 23 | A concrete breakwater stretches away to sink slowly in the dark distance . |
| 24 | It had been glorious just to sit there at the huge dining table , with the sounds of the sea wafting up through the open window , feeling her exhaustion slip away from her , while the energetic Mrs Birkin set before the three of them course after delicious course . |
| 25 | For this purpose , I propose first to discuss the several bloom shapes and forms , then the growth and habit forms and variations , and then progressively to pass on to the many breed and race classifications . |
| 26 | Then , turning away to look out of the small , square window he delivered the cruellest cut of all : " Specially when she 's second best . " |
| 27 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 28 | Against the implacable opposition of its lord , Aylesbury failed utterly to hold on to the corporate status granted it in 1554 . |
| 29 | Bob Bennett was a typical Cockney with a dry sense of humour , who had volunteered for anything that was going just to get away from the parade-ground atmosphere of the Grenadier Guards . |
| 30 | Later , as Mr Bagley , at 21 thought to be the youngest scheduled service pilot in the country , prepared finally to take off with the delayed passengers , he was playing down the incident . |