Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Merely to connect her with the Battle of Trafalgar liquefied him a little further because it moved him . |
| 3 | Certainly the Gulf Stream is quite strong enough to carry them across the Atlantic to the shores of Europe . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | that 's almost certainly enough to nail it to the floor I would have thought . |
| 6 | ‘ How I loathe people who raise one 's hopes , only to dash them to the ground ! ’ |
| 7 | Still not enough to tempt you from the tourist route ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Be able to make a load and strong enough to pitch it into the stack , that was the problem . |
| 10 | Supposing , however , the defence has to cope with attackers pushing up just far enough to catch them on the turn and stay onside . |
| 11 | After a few weeks , Mr Sowerberry decided that he liked Oliver 's appearance enough to train him in the undertaking business . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The capital was large enough to provide them with the anonymity they badly needed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ If they were happy enough to let me through the door then they should have been happy to let me win their draw . |
| 17 | An hour or so was spent drafting a new outline for this second approach on the mysteries of the Coniunctio and , when she was satisfied that its thread was strong enough to guide her through the maze , she took up again the pursuit of Mercurius through the bridal-chambers of the mind . |
| 18 | That was good enough to put him in the lead for the amateur half of the tournament . |
| 19 | She 'd imagined herself deeply in love with a man who 'd spun her impossible yarns of riches and position , only to abandon her in the end to shame and ridicule . |
| 20 | A big hat : with a brim large enough to protect you from the sun and the eyes of the curious , thus allowing you to look enigmatic when you 're merely asleep . |
| 21 | Surely the manager could have massaged his ego enough to keep him at the club . |
| 22 | Greenpeace was accused of scientific sloppiness , so it appointed a director of science and two people to work with him , a recognition in its way that zipping over the waves in pursuit of whalers was not enough to keep it in the forefront in these intellectually demanding days of climate change . |
| 23 | It has been argued that catholic schools do not do the job for which they were set up , that is educate Roman catholics sufficiently to keep them in the church . |
| 24 | And , although he had recently been known to talk to an invisible giant white rabbit and peek at his neighbours through binoculars , neither of these traits were deemed enough to blacken him in the eyes of the electors . |
| 25 | As with the Cel Editor , you may import a number of different image file types to form your background , and may , indeed , find that you prefer to work on backgrounds in another package altogether , and bring them into the Background Editor only to convert them to the Device Independent Bitmap ( DIB ) format that is native to the package . |
| 26 | Tonson would have had a strong incentive to make the effort to accommodate this particular late arrival : unlike ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air ’ , which is a virtuoso show-piece full of semiquaver pyrotechnics ( and therefore unsuitable for the amateur market ) , it was included in the Select Songs volume — so to omit it from the word-book might have led to complaints . |
| 27 | A more insidious appeal to the national interest on behalf of the trade came from those controversialists who appeared to concede much of the abolitionists ' case with one hand only to withdraw it with the other . |
| 28 | Its toes are strong enough to hold it on the bark , no matter which way it is facing and it hops about in all directions with sure-footed nimbleness . |
| 29 | Somehow she could not help but suspect that he would think it immoral to squeeze extra wages out of his stepfather , only to hoard them beneath the floorboards . |
| 30 | It was West Ham 's first victory for nearly 2½ months , but was not enough to lift them from the bottom of the First Division . |