Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | B … ’ she began , got herself together from his impudence , and could see no reason not to reveal , ‘ I went looking for somewhere else to live . ’ |
| 2 | When it got dark he looked for somewhere else to sit and went to the back of the aircraft by way of the communication tunnel , but quickly got bored . |
| 3 | " Goodness me , do n't start taking that as a compliment , she cares about everyone 's feelings , she 's an archetypal victim , she 's an absolute fool about other people 's feelings , and let me warn you , I may as well warn you , the more she dislikes somebody , the more somebody annoys her , the more careful she is not to hurt their feelings , in fact the only people she is ever rude to are people like me and Gabriel and Papa , I mean people she cares for enough not to worry about being fair to . |
| 4 | If he does , he should ask the helper simply to make sure that the cars stop for long enough to allow him to cross : the helper should not take the patient 's arm and hurry him across . |
| 5 | It was decided that about one thousand was right , three hundred to storm the castle itself and the remainder to seal off the approaches thereto for long enough to allow the raiders to achieve their ends and retire back across the ford , it was to be hoped with Edward Balliol dead or alive . |
| 6 | The Lords can publicise matters and delay action for long enough to allow public opinion to make itself felt . |
| 7 | That ‘ inwardness ’ so prized by some English readers , and characteristically found by them ( implausibly ) in Lawrence , is an attention directed so far ‘ inward , that it can never come to the surface for long enough to notice how the sunlight breaks upon the edges and volumes of a piece of sculpture ; and that is why indeed such readers can not use the word ‘ aesthetic ’ except ‘ in a limiting sense ’ . |
| 8 | Only slowly revolving tyres will contact the road for long enough to generate sufficient drive . |
| 9 | The interior was never sufficiently plastic close to the surface for long enough to cause widespread geological activity such as Plate Tectonics , largely because the Moon has a large ratio of surface area to mass and thus loses heat relatively rapidly ( section 2.1.16 ) . |
| 10 | They slept then , tucked up around one another , waking several times during the night , but rarely for long enough to do more than acknowledge the other 's presence . |
| 11 | For a final shot , pull back to a wider view of the scene and hold this for long enough to mark the winding-up of the sequence . |
| 12 | Selfing populations of plants could be valuable material , although the retention of unused yet presumably expensive floral features in some populations raised doubts as to whether they have been selfing for long enough to reach evolutionary equilibrium . |
| 13 | Horrible and I 'm I lived quite happily for long enough to remember certainly means testing and my parents . |
| 14 | You should be prepared to invest for long enough to ride out any dips in the market . |
| 15 | One of the six proposed tests for confirming brain-stem death is that ‘ No respiratory movements occur when the patient is disconnected from the mechanical ventilator for long enough to ensure that the arterial carbon dioxide tension rises above the threshold for stimulating respiration . ’ |
| 16 | Suppose you are reading in poor light , and that you glance at a word for long enough to identify the letters " commerce " . |
| 17 | He paused for long enough to throw his jacket onto one of the hallway hooks , and called out , ‘ It 's me . ’ |
| 18 | If Norman Lamont keeps the job of Chancellor ( and he might do so only because of the shortlist of alternative candidates is embarrassingly short ) he may decide to delay the next cut in interest rates for long enough to convince the markets that he is serious about wanting to move sterling into narrow bands in the European exchange rate mechanism at its middle rate of Dm2.95 . |
| 19 | We 've known each for long enough to know that silence is better if there is nothing specific to say . |
| 20 | He had been around the scene for long enough to know how to manipulate meetings without getting everyone 's back up . |
| 21 | But she was in such a hurry that she just could n't stay for long enough to help me with breastfeeding Stephen . |
| 22 | The companies say that if they are not allowed to produce HCFCs and HFCs for long enough to make a return on their investment , users will face a crisis when CFC manufacturing comes to a halt in the late 1990s . |
| 23 | However did people manage to discipline themselves and stick to a single line for long enough to gain control , to come out on top , to become the boss instead of the employee ? |
| 24 | Formal research into the headaches began in 1970 and , until now , no-one has followed up patients for long enough to determine the natural course of the condition . |
| 25 | consistency and persistence are watchwords in early learning , especially with certain volatile ( hyperactive ) children who find it difficult to concentrate for long enough to absorb life 's lessons . |
| 26 | Our local starling population is a race apart in that they are non-migratory and have been isolated in the islands for long enough to have developed their own characteristics . |
| 27 | She had not been absent from her home for long enough to have forgotten her own house smell . |
| 28 | He has been on the Opposition Front Bench for long enough to have seen and understood the redevelopment work that is currently being undertaken in Londonderry and which is being carried out in the county towns throughout the length and breadth of Northern Ireland . |
| 29 | You 've been round this club now for long enough to have learned something of my reputation . |
| 30 | In all cases , however , Standard English has been present for long enough to have had a substantial impact on the language practices of the communities in question . |