Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean you do n't put a fiver in to go and then , then have to put more in to go to bleeding erm Wickham and back . |
| 2 | I was saying , oh yeah erm Shrimpy like , we , me and Scott were playing snooker and I , I came in to see if like , either of you , anyone else wanted to play doubles and like , Swimp , Shrimpy was just sat by himself in the middle of the floor , cross-legged just sat there like a little pixie or something ! |
| 3 | It was odd enough to see that rather feminine room crammed full with so many stern , dark-jacketed gentlemen , sometimes sitting three or four abreast upon a sofa ; but such was the determination on the part of some persons to maintain the appearance that this was nothing more than a social event that they had actually gone to the lengths of having journals and newspapers open on their knees . |
| 4 | It was something he wanted not only to preserve but somehow to revive . |
| 5 | It was all going entirely to plan and quite uneventful until we arrived at about 150 feet above the upwind end of the runway . |
| 6 | One morning when Harriet had gone early to Penzance not only to shop but also to have her hair done , Liza came downstairs in her dressing-gown to find her daughter and Edna having , unusually for them , an altercation . |
| 7 | Occasionally fans write in to demand that offside be abolished altogether . |
| 8 | It will be comforting to me at any rate personally to know that even so eminent a , a , er an ornament of the present administration as my Noble Friends also found these th th this material a matter for stumbling and was not perhaps inclined to give it a crown of lucidity . |
| 9 | After two years of bingeing up Baldwin and bringing Neville along to find that even Neville loses his head , and sells the pass in the first fortnight of serious crisis . ’ |
| 10 | Come down to haggle or just to window shop , and bring your own mystery guitars for identification or valuation . |
| 11 | 4 The learner is secure enough to accept or even welcome correction from the resource person . |
| 12 | At twenty-three he married again , became a Roman Catholic and decided to buckle down to work as best he could and prove by his buildings that ‘ everything grand , edifying and noble in art is the result of feelings produced by the catholic religion on the human mind . ’ |
| 13 | And will he be far-sighted enough to guess that even DNA may itself have been a usurper of yet more remote and primitive replicators , crystals of inorganic silicates ? |
| 14 | Yes , we spent quite a lot of time alone together , started going to bed and all that , and yes we were sensible enough to know that even when you 're falling in love you should n't live entirely in one another 's pockets . |
| 15 | But the Dutchman is smart enough to know that even though the practice session at the stadium went well , his strike-force still suffer from the age-old Irish problem . |
| 16 | Like Clough , Graham has enjoyed virtual non-stop adulation as a manager , but he 's realistic enough to know that today 's fickle fans demand instant success . |
| 17 | Beddington had lived long enough to know that very few people were quite what the public considered them . |
| 18 | Many are the times me wife and I have sat at the table with a large sheet of graph paper and worked it all out , only to find that either my ruler 's idea of an inch does n't tally with the real thing , or the width of a pencil line on the plan actually equates to a foot in real life . |
| 19 | I had to retrace my steps and double back around areas that proved too soft only to find that everywhere else was as bad . |
| 20 | It was a weird , time , with white rastas , art-school escapees , old rockers and punk fanzine costermongers coming together to discover that maybe they did have something in common after all . |
| 21 | The religious work centred on evangelism : George Cadbury supported ‘ Free Church parishes ’ in order better to coordinate as well as to encourage evangelistic effort . |
| 22 | Two days passed before the man was strong enough to talk and then the Captain asked him to tell his story . |
| 23 | This was at Gloucester Road , or near it , and though the tall buildings are very close to the line here , they are not close enough for anyone inside to reach or even touch a passing train . |
| 24 | In a seminar limited to 40 participants , not everyone 's favourites can be included ; however , Harold Pinter , whom Mr Torode surprisingly regards as Ms Weldon 's ally , was invited , not only to participate but also to chair a session . |
| 25 | I want only to suggest that however closely those match , however complete they are , therefore , in the pairs they form , they all also work as imagines of the writer 's relation to language , now confident , now uncertain , now lonely , now roistering and so on . |
| 26 | I would love to see Réaux on stage in one of the great Weill parts — ‘ My ship ’ is good enough to suggest that here , at last , perhaps , is the Liza Elliott we 've been waiting for . |
| 27 | How easy it would be to surrender now , she thought , not only to sleep but also to the demands of these men . |
| 28 | One of the reasons for Dupleix 's failure was simply that he was operating in a region of India where the profits from trade were not large enough to justify or even to support heavy military expenditure . |
| 29 | No person presently doing business with the Vendor nor any customer or supplier who is in the habit of purchasing from or selling to the Vendor ( as the case may be ) in relation to the Business will within twelve calendar months from Completion cease so to do or otherwise substantially reduce its purchase from or supplies to the Business . |
| 30 | Each has been very interesting , and , having offered to a partner , , to give the firm a vote of thanks at the end , was encouraged so to do as yesterday was the last in the series . |