Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maria Morgan , editor of the Guinness Book 's literary section , says of the publishers ' advertisement : ‘ The trouble is that as yet we do n't have a category for most widely read author . |
| 2 | A few made a short journey , for most privately owned butchers , there were still over twenty of them in the city , operated their own slaughterhouses . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Well fair enough we criticize referees often enough for perhaps harshly sending players off I suppose we should compliment Mr Kirby for not showing the red card there . |
| 6 | There were problems about so blatantly exposing homosexuality on the air . |
| 7 | The fact that it has been written about so perfectly inhibits my response to the place : I have no feelings about Tipasa , only to what Camus has written about it . |
| 8 | The intention is not only to record the whereabouts of existing and established collections , but to make available to researchers up-to-date information about less well known groups of records , especially those still in private hands . |
| 9 | The case in fact that was put forward by the North Yorkshire County Council Highways and Traffic committee was in fact that the need as so clearly expressed by Mr is that it is the A fifty nine that needs the relief more than anything else an therefore the proposal is that the northern relief road be it an inner or an outer , be built first . |
| 10 | Because she knew that now they would never escape and might not for long even survive ? |
| 11 | Protected by their icy environment , northern folk were for long virtually isolated from southern influences . |
| 12 | The free market principle ( or ideology ) was for long forcefully advocated in the USA — most notably in the film business ( which also had remarkable cartel elements of its own ) . |
| 13 | Well , I I was fairly new in the company myself so I had n't worked for his father for long before took over the managership or chairmanship or whatever he is , so I I 'm really not too sure about the whole thing but certainly for a quarry manager or quarry director or owner , he did n't really know the slate as well as the workers , and he was expecting things out of his workers and the slate , the product , that were really just not on . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Lords can publicise matters and delay action for long enough to allow public opinion to make itself felt . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | Only slowly revolving tyres will contact the road for long enough to generate sufficient drive . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Horrible and I 'm I lived quite happily for long enough to remember certainly means testing and my parents . |
| 24 | You should be prepared to invest for long enough to ride out any dips in the market . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | Suppose you are reading in poor light , and that you glance at a word for long enough to identify the letters " commerce " . |
| 27 | He paused for long enough to throw his jacket onto one of the hallway hooks , and called out , ‘ It 's me . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | We 've known each for long enough to know that silence is better if there is nothing specific to say . |
| 30 | He had been around the scene for long enough to know how to manipulate meetings without getting everyone 's back up . |