Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not explain what he meant , but went on rather quickly to tell me about the appointment , and for a while we talked about Cambridge , and places and people that we both knew well . |
| 2 | After landing , the stick should be moved slowly right back to increase the tail load , unless there is good reason to deliberately steer the glider to one side . |
| 3 | Twin Oaks , one of the backmarkers on the first circuit , ran on remarkably well to finish fifth without ever looking likely to take a hand in the finish . |
| 4 | He had been twice into Ruane 's office , and the first time the block had been polite , and the second time he had been told rather less politely to sit on his hands and wait , like everybody else had to . |
| 5 | But demonstration is rarely enough both to sell a product and to establish a brand . |
| 6 | They moved to a flat in Kensington that Ken financed for them — to the point that he made Carry On Regardless solely to recoup some of his losses . |
| 7 | Statutory services have , however , done little so far to encourage the development of such services , even though they can bring very significant emotional benefits to individuals , particularly those living alone or who are estranged from their families . |
| 8 | Right so just to summarize erm let's , let's remind ourselves of the , the issues we 've raised here . |
| 9 | Indeed , men and women not in uniform were asked most pointedly not to use them . |
| 10 | Such is the experience of most of us when we go to bed late : we might sleep slightly later than usual but rarely long enough to compensate completely for the late night . |
| 11 | The wicket in the west door opened silently ; he did not mark it until its weight carried it gently right back to knock against the wall . |
| 12 | But when I was there there were once one instant is er er the man on watch in the morning he spotted a floating mine come in right down to close to the rock and er er it anchored just about er er a quarter of a mile or maybe two hundred yards off the rock off the tower and er of well when a mine anchors of course it becomes er alive . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , the received opinion seems to be that you should have sex and that it 's not all right not to have it . |
| 14 | After two trials which saw some established crowns toppled , Mains ' men played three tests against a World XV put together rather haphazardly to celebrate the New Zealand centennial , and the two against Ireland . |
| 15 | So he played gently enough not to make the hammers of Stein 's pianos bounce up and hit the strings again . |
| 16 | No , perhaps only enough to get her to Boston and a little on top . |
| 17 | It took a while before anyone issued a Shabba album , perhaps because he was so popular in reggae 's ‘ get a money ’ freelance business that no producer could pin him down long enough to cut enough sides . |
| 18 | The only difference was that most of them had finished long enough ago to sunbathe on the terrace , not trudging off the mountain at 9.00 o'clock . |
| 19 | Peter was a poor salesman , but he had n't been at DPR quite long enough yet to get sacked . |
| 20 | You 've been here long enough now to have formed your own impressions of what goes on . |
| 21 | ‘ I suppose we 've both been racing long enough now to know racing is racing . |
| 22 | Whether you are starting to decorate a first home , have just moved into a new place or are redecorating an existing room , the problem is often much the same : not so much how to arrange things as how to fill up big blank walls and table or shelf surfaces when you do n't seem to have very much to use and certainly very little to spend . |
| 23 | The problem in cultivating horseradish is not so much how to make it grow well , as to curb its enthusiasm and stop it taking over the garden . |
| 24 | In fact mounting excitement sweeps him along impetuously enough to make you even wish for a little more restraint . |
| 25 | Afterwards 4000 Sunday School children of all denominations sat down together ecumenically to consume a ton and a half of cake ; and each was presented with a copy of Pilgrim 's Progress . |
| 26 | Were n't you together long enough to know that ? ’ |
| 27 | He could n't string Fly 's presence and his doubts together long enough to know what one had to do with the other . |
| 28 | A hostess in tight teeshirt and jeans lingers only long enough to assure Kate discreetly with her eyes that she is not poaching on her territory , smiles velvetly at Jeremy , brings them their drinks . |
| 29 | Surveying the results of her handiwork , she stayed only long enough to see him scrabble for the safety of the bank . |
| 30 | And in a show that gave good old-fashioned value for money Miss Lee stopped singing only long enough to declare : ‘ Ah thank you so very very much , ’ and ‘ Ah 'm so very very glad to be here . ’ |