Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after a bit my curiosity got the better of me and I spread my fingers slowly to peep through . |
| 2 | The British Press habitually looks for an opportunity eventually to knock down the heroes they have created and placed on pedestals , if only to do something new . |
| 3 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 4 | First , there seems at present less to complain about in most of our primary schools than in secondary or tertiary education . |
| 5 | An hour , and an hour perhaps to get back into the town — still plenty of time , as she had judged it , to catch the ten-forty-five for Bleasham . |
| 6 | Now — who hates your son-in-law enough to kill off his wife and kids ? ’ |
| 7 | This is vintage Biffen on 19 December 1990 in a speech in which he was kind enough to comment favourably on some remarks I had made in Parliament the previous week on the same subject : |
| 8 | Marcus has been kind enough to come here . |
| 9 | The supporters did not release Winkie Armstrong only to bring in Billy Whitehurst ! |
| 10 | ‘ And I doubt the princes , poor lads , have freedom enough to carry out any mischievous forays ! |
| 11 | In a fierce , raw and , at times , downright nasty battle , Barnes led his besieged troops to glory only to hit out in a variety of directions afterwards . |
| 12 | IT IS pretty rare to come across a football manager brave enough to hold up his hands the day after a beating and invite criticism . |
| 13 | Waves burst over the cockpit into the saloon only to pour out through the manhole each time the bridge-deck broke free for a moment . |
| 14 | The only alternative would be to require the new unitary councils to club together to carry out this and other strategic functions , but that begs the question : Why abolish the counties in the first place , only to recreate them in a less accountable form ? |
| 15 | Whether it was being referred to that week as The Tea Room , The Oasis or The Hole ( I liked that one too ) , it was always basically night inside , A Good Night Out ; not black as jeweller 's velvet exactly , except on a good night , but always when you stepped in off the street it was truly night inside , a night dark enough to dream in and on which to meet strangers , whatever the variations on where and when this particular night had fallen . |
| 16 | He always wore a plain white shirt with the sleeves rolled back off his splendid forearms , and he had eyes dark enough to look truly black in the lighting of The Bar . |
| 17 | In the end she made the decision to combine Episodes Three and Four together , losing one whole episode entirely to tighten up on the drama . |
| 18 | Whereas a traditional craftsman would decide what should be done , how it should be done , when it should be done , and to what level of quality , as well as actually executing the task itself , modern management within capitalism takes on all these former conceptual functions , leaving labour merely to carry out the mechanical aspects of performing the manual task . |
| 19 | Write to the addresses below to find out who to contact in your country . |
| 20 | The group also has evidence , from the Azores , of volcanoes rising above the waves only to sink again and again beneath the weight of accumulating lava . |
| 21 | The whole kit is neatly housed in a semi-circular , strong plastic , self-locking carry-case , which can be strapped next to the spare wheel in many cars , and is both convenient and light enough to carry around . |
| 22 | When a drover 's or farmer 's beasts went missing , they were liable to find their way into rogues ' hiding-places such as the deep cleft of the Devil 's Beef Tub near the source of the River Tweed above Moffat , where encircling hills seemed , according to Sir Walter Scott , to be ‘ laying their heads together to shut out the daylight from the dark hollow space between them ’ . |
| 23 | While the two aircraft commanders get their heads together to sort out the best approach to the problem we have been set , the two pilots sort out the flying side of life . |
| 24 | Nearly 150 heads of state , including most of the countries of the industrialized West , are putting their heads together to discuss how to curb the production of greenhouse gases , how to slow the depletion of the ozone layer , and how to stop the deforestation of the Amazonian rain forests . |
| 25 | ‘ Look , ’ Forester said urgently , and Carson could imagine his knuckles going white as he gripped the payphone receiver hard in an attempt to get his point across , ‘ my chance at having a kid 's been ruined , and the police and the government have got their heads together to cover up for the killer . ’ |
| 26 | Small enough to swim under and around , large enough to support a man , and big enough to teach all of us a lesson . |
| 27 | Ready potty Small enough to fold down and be popped into the glove compartment , this portable potty is invaluable during potty training days . |
| 28 | Small enough to step over , as Highfield 's step-over trees testify . |
| 29 | By now you will have stimulated the circulation enough to move on to the next stage , which is kneading . |
| 30 | KERRY Matthew ran the race of her life on Saturday only to finish agonisingly outside the English Schools Championships qualifying time . |