Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gay stayed with her , while Breeze ran into the inn and , with lively recollections of her last visit , asked rather nervously to see the proprietor . |
| 2 | I think first part to it , but then er it seemed to go downhill so to speak . |
| 3 | Few of Gallotta 's ideas are developed rigorously enough to see all their possibilities , and too many degenerate into rituals for marking time . |
| 4 | Did he really need to go so far to learn so little ? |
| 5 | With the profits from their books they made enough finally to buy Old Vicarage Farm , with four others , as an organic co-operative , in 1987 . |
| 6 | If he lacked Zhivkov 's taste , Ceauşescu showed greater consistency of purpose : Zhivkov survived his fall and lived long enough to explain that he had not really been a Communist after all ; Ceauşescu never gave his judges the satisfaction of hearing him renounce his beliefs . |
| 7 | Burrows lived long enough to secure the appointment of Arnold Toynbee [ q.v. ] to the chair in 1919 . |
| 8 | ‘ So they never lived long enough to know I had justified their faith in me . ’ |
| 9 | He lived long enough to hear the Court announce on June 26 that it had rejected Australia 's Preliminary Objections concerning the Court 's jurisdiction in the case and the admissibility of Nauru 's claim . |
| 10 | He did , and I heard him say , ‘ Well , at least I lived long enough to meet you , love . ’ |
| 11 | It could n't be the same Rover , because they 'd have recognised the car , although he hoped they had n't stopped long enough to get the number . |
| 12 | Mrs Marcos agreed long ago to fly her husband 's body direct to Laoag , but she is now hinting at defiance . |
| 13 | It dropped five bound volumes through a chute into a Committee meeting , and strongly suggested they leave off debating what colour the new Nempnett Thrubwell skimover ought to be painted long enough to ponder the problem . |
| 14 | We do not know why New Town , on Poole Bay , failed so completely to come off . |
| 15 | If it persists long enough to block out sunlight for an period , it will have the effect of wiping out phytoplankton , with potentially-disastrous effects for all marine life further up the food chain . |
| 16 | The VT is commonly non-sustained but sometimes persists long enough to provoke syncope , or even death if ventricular fibrillation supervenes . |
| 17 | Dougal was relieved that Miss Devenish agreed so readily to see him . |
| 18 | They tend perhaps just to lack that real killer instinct and erm it 's such a great shame because people might laugh and joke looking at the league table , in fact United , since Christmas , have played some very good football indeed . |
| 19 | Software Transformation 's technology provides a framework of software programming tools that is claimed to transcend differences in graphical user interfaces and varied operating system characteristics such as memory allocation and file systems so that applications need be developed only once to run on a variety of systems — currently Apple Computer Inc 's Macintosh , Microsoft Corp 's Windows , Novell and Univel Inc 's UnixWare and Unixes from Digital Equipment Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc , with versions for OS/2 , AIX and NT on the way . |
| 20 | Software Transformation 's technology provides a framework of software programming tools that is claimed to transcend differences in graphical user interfaces and varied operating system characteristics such as memory allocation and file systems so that applications need be developed only once to run on a variety of systems — currently Apple Computer Inc 's Macintosh , Microsoft Corp 's Windows , Novell and Univel Inc 's UnixWare and Unixes from Digital Equipment Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc , with versions for OS/2 , AIX and NT on the way . |
| 21 | The vitamin E level would have had to fall much further to produce a deficiency and this would have been unlikely to happen in Alan or anyone else unless they are eating a very poor diet indeed . |
| 22 | EMPLOYEES at Burstwick got together recently to bid farewell to two of their long serving colleagues . |
| 23 | The odd couple got together yesterday to urge all slap-happy mums and dads to ‘ count to ten and think again ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ And you wo n't even let the boy stay long enough to see his mother ? ’ said the yeoman without animosity . |
| 25 | This was approached from two angles : first , what was known as the ‘ battle for the fourth grade ’ , an acknowledgement that substantial numbers of children either did not go to school or did not stay long enough to consolidate literacy . |
| 26 | After that , while never again did she stay long enough to have supper — or do the washing-up — Rosemary , still popping across to Leith 's and Sebastian 's flat at any time , accepted about two invitations in particular each week for coffee . |
| 27 | To commemorate these key events in world history , Saga is looking into organising various reunions and commemorative tours , gathering together those who fought so gallantly to revisit and remember those events of nearly 50 years ago . |
| 28 | Forcing herself to blank the sounds from her head , she stared straight ahead , but found little there to soothe her . |
| 29 | At the same time the keyboard conductor makes sure that the electrostatic charge that builds up inside you also has somewhere else to go . |
| 30 | Bristol led after five minutes when Dziekanowski held off a challenge before centering accurately to the far post , where Rosenior headed powerfully home to mark his first full appearance for the club . |