Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [to-vb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kevin Brown , the reigning North-East half marathon champion , was troubled by a stitch but battled on gamely to finish in 33rd position in 67.11 . |
| 2 | And after all Elizabeth had done for her , heaven only knew it was little enough to ask in return . |
| 3 | For when you are dry , empty , sick , or weak , at such a time is your prayer most pleasing to me though you find little enough to enjoy in it ’ ’ |
| 4 | He derided those who thought it was ‘ all right to stay in opposition so long as your socialist heart is pure ’ , and argued it was not they who suffered , but the poor in Britain and in the third world : ‘ We are not just a debating society . |
| 5 | Home video shows him enjoying a family Christmas but detectives believe he did n't live long enough to see in the New Year . |
| 6 | For just a few seconds , Lucinda hesitated ; for just long enough to take in the shock of white hair , the lined , weather-worn face and the tremendous size of him . |
| 7 | I was only a short time standing there , but long enough to take in the vessel 's lines , the quite dainty sheer , her size and the layout of the masts and rigging . |
| 8 | Niall took his eyes from the road long enough to glance in her direction . |
| 9 | If that idea proves feasible , they could zombify most of Europe for long enough to walk in unresisted . ’ |
| 10 | If this was not possible , then they had to be placed as ‘ hands ’ on conventional farms where they were close enough together to meet in the evenings with their Madrichim ( group counsellors ) for cultural communion . |
| 11 | But manager John King and his backroom staff did n't offer Agoos a contract , because they believed he was n't good enough defensively to play in English football . |
| 12 | But manager John King and his backroom staff did n't offer Agoos a contract , because they believed he was n't good enough defensively to play in English football . |
| 13 | Staff and students sat down together to engage in an exercise in creative thought . |
| 14 | Brisk afternoon winds do blow , exciting passages are possible , and there are many coves where you can anchor alone just to relax in perfect peace . |
| 15 | ( I learned from this experience that rigor mortis takes much longer to set in than I had supposed ; quite some time , in fact . ) |
| 16 | With hindsight , it would have better still to lock in a few more gains . |
| 17 | By choosing varieties which are grafted on dwarfing rootstocks where these are available ( cherries , apricots , plums , peaches , pears , apples ) , together with less vigorous varieties of others , trees can be kept to a more manageable size , some small enough even to grow in large pots or in a greenhouse . |
| 18 | What Tolkien wanted to concentrate on , obviously , was death : more precisely perhaps on why people love this world and want so strongly to stay in it when it is an inescapable part of their nature ‘ to die and go we know not where ’ . |
| 19 | Songs like ‘ Brand New Love ’ and ‘ Its So Hard To Fall In Love ’ — covered much to Lou 's flattered bewilderment by Superchunk — and newer material that will appear on the next full-length Sebadoh LP , to be released in the new year by Sub Pop and Roughneck , are typical of his style : eschewing traditional songwriting imagery and devices in favour of pure , honest expression . |
| 20 | Alright he , he 's probably down there with his wife and my friend and invited me down there to stay in her house but I do n't think it 's September actually , so I do n't , some . |
| 21 | Beckett 's failing narrators manage in their torrents of words only unstably to sustain in existence on a strange edge of death and silence , adrift in ‘ who knows what profounds of mind ’ ( Beckett 1984 : 288 ) . |
| 22 | Ought we not rather to think in terms of partially intersecting views of context ? |
| 23 | It was not enough to excel in the swimming and the running , which he knew he did ; what was going to be the good of getting good scores there and nullifying them with a duff riding round ? |
| 24 | Mr Justice Morrit held that the first payment of £4,000 on 30 January together with the monthly sum of £1,000 by banker 's order was not enough to discharge in full the invoice for January 's work by the accountants , which was £5,307.25 . |
| 25 | as if the jungle and the heat and the blasted " yellows " were not enough to endure in the godforsaken tropics ! |
| 26 | Hugh hesitated and then did so , undoing the neck just enough to stuff in half a loaf and some smoked meat , giving no-one a chance to see what else he had in it — not that anyone cared . |
| 27 | What was more , he considered it his duty , not only to pray in public himself , but to induce his friends to join him , often at inconvenient times and in conspicuous places . |
| 28 | But the pervasive and insidious presence throughout the novel of manifestations of Quechua culture suggests the ability of that culture not only to survive in an alien environment , but also , as it itself is modified , to exercise an ‘ Indianizing ’ influence on the country as a whole . |
| 29 | The ultimate insult had been thrown at him : he , the Maître Auguste Didier , had been obliged , nay commanded , not only to appear in Dickensian dress but to don the unmistakable apparel of Alexis Soyer : tight white drill trousers , matching tunic , short jacket , ridiculous cummerbund , slotted into which was his own kitchen knife ( no doubt for a speedy self-martyrdom after the imminent disaster of this meal ) and , worse , the horror on his head . |
| 30 | Christians are meant not only to believe in Jesus , but to know that we have eternal life ( 5:13 ) and it is the task of the Spirit to bring this quiet confidence home to us . |