Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When beating the sideways force of the wind is at a maximum and so we need the daggerboard right down to get a good grip on the water and stop the boat drifting sideways . |
| 2 | They have removed the attack on our conference and at last we can now get on together to build a better union . |
| 3 | Take the crack through these then traverse delicately leftwards to reach a good ledge . |
| 4 | The idea was that this was a way of ironing out minor disputes , but the clause was worded widely enough to cover a dispute arising out of wrongful termination of the contract . |
| 5 | It is all right to tell a whopper on an answering machine ( ‘ We 're sorry that we can not answer your call right now ’ is either a lie or a statement of the obvious ) , but no one will forgive you for not ‘ getting back ’ to him later . |
| 6 | For a convincing construction of a normal form it is not enough merely to list a few types of equivalence that can arise and show how to deal with them . |
| 7 | Dauntless doubted whether she could direct her attention upon anything long enough to sustain a sense of faith . |
| 8 | ‘ You 've taken long enough to do a simple errand , I must say . |
| 9 | Until I can persuade her to unbind me — or make contact with Mephistco and convince someone back at base to forgive me my trespasses just long enough to do an override — I am confined inside the plane of reflected light . |
| 10 | He unclasped them just long enough to push a small packet across the desk towards Ruth . |
| 11 | Even so , she had lingered long enough to watch a tanker ploughing a parallel course , though in the opposite direction , probably bound for the big oil refinery . |
| 12 | He remained just long enough to save a substantial sum by the standards of Irish wealth and then came home with his newly acquired capital . |
| 13 | Rosé Champagne is achieved either by blending or by allowing the black grape skins ( Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier ) to stay in contact with the juice long enough to impart a pale rose colour . |
| 14 | We need a time limit which is short enough to be attractive but long enough to effect a result . |
| 15 | Warner paused , but not long enough to invite a response . |
| 16 | Undaunted , one of the Marines took it upon himself to pop out from hiding just long enough to hurl a grenade at the gun position . |
| 17 | The total playing and recording time : eight hours , long enough to record a string of television programmes . |
| 18 | The long residence time generally means that any harmful bacteria that enter an aquifer do not live long enough to pose a threat to anyone using groundwater . |
| 19 | long enough to earn a name , his dedication . |
| 20 | ‘ Long enough to form an educated opinion , min skat — ’ |
| 21 | They had then returned to Weymouth and diverted to the crematorium , where Heather had left the car just long enough to take a photograph . |
| 22 | Betty Titford , Thomas 's wife , received help because she was sick ; Thomas himself was out of work in 1801 , and qualified for relief both on that score and because he was the head of a one-parent family which included a sick daughter ; Hephzibah , the little orphan , had been helped and then apprenticed by the overseers , and finally John and Ann , briefly subsidised during times of economic dearth , eventually survived long enough to collect a very modest old-age pension . |
| 23 | Although Gumperz bases his analyses on transcriptions of actual conversation , his examples consisting of " illustrative brief exchanges , just long enough to provide a basis for context bound interpretation " ( 1982 : 75 ) show only the stretches of speech containing the code-switched utterances themselves , and omit specifications of pauses , laughter , other parties ' contributions which overlap with the current speakers " and other details which are considered potentially important by conversation analysts . |
| 24 | She saw Defries , and paused long enough to make a curious gesture : a closed fist , and the thumb sticking upwards . |
| 25 | At least long enough to make a statement . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Khrushchev appeared in Paris long enough to make an angry denunciation of American policy and then withdrew , leaving an embarrassed Eisenhower to return home , empty-handed . |
| 28 | It looked and sounded great but rarely ran long enough to satisfy a wide variety of drivers . |
| 29 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 30 | Helen had been with Culley long enough to recognize a red light . |