Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I know you have done a C C Q on yourself and we 've looked at each page in detail but I think until you actually do it yourself and maybe write little prompts to let you know what 's on the next page so you can signpost it most effectively to move round the C C Q as opposed to you dri er as opposed to it driving you , you can drive it , but that should be done in the fullness of time but I do recommend you do it before you actually do your first full appointment cos it might pay you .
2 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 .
3 And after all Elizabeth had done for her , heaven only knew it was little enough to ask in return .
4 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 ’ ’
5 These are useful if they have been constructed flexibly enough to allow for complex unusual facilities to be used if required , and thus do not negate their advantage by imposing restrictions on the designers and programmers , Structure should be built in from the beginning .
6 ‘ Julie , whoever those men are , whoever this Farrell is , they want something badly enough to kill for it .
7 She offered to come down for the weekend to help , and Carolyn wanted her badly enough to hesitate before putting her off .
8 His primary commitment was to effective control ; he chose deterrence because it seemed most obviously to follow from his views on human rationality .
9 He managed furthermore discreetly to put into circulation the audacious proposal that he should be the first Governor-General of the two independent states .
10 When at last he came down to Egypt , Joseph showed him all the love and respect that were a father 's due , all the love and respect that Ham had failed so conspicuously to show to Noah .
11 The very impurity which the radical humanist seeks to transcend , only despairingly to rediscover at the very centre of his or her being — this impurity , for the fantasies of transgressive reinscription , is not the ground of its failure but the material upon which it works .
12 After all , she was all right to flirt with at parties and escort him occasionally .
13 ‘ It 's all right to ask for other people .
14 ‘ You mean it 's all right to sleep with you under your own roof with your mother there although it 's not quite the done thing here ? ’
15 But you think it 's perfectly all right to talk about women 's tits and bums and stick pictures of them up all over the place .
16 Perhaps the Minister could clarify the impression given by the Hon. Member for Tayside , North ( Mr. Walker ) , who believes that it is all right to buy from the public purse something for £2 million and then to sell off a fraction of it for £4 1 million a fortnight later as long as the proceeds of the sale go to buses .
17 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 .
18 But he was all right to work with if you knew your job .
19 ‘ Is it all right to walk on a Sunday , Uncle Rory ? ’
20 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 .
21 It happened so fast and so drastically that I nearly slid after him , managing only instinctively to pivot on one foot and throw myself headlong back onto the boards still remaining solid behind the hole .
22 He knew of course that he never could meet them , but he wanted so badly to talk to them that he would get out their letters and pictures from his box of papers and talk quietly to them anyway .
23 If the pillars are really in the proper places , there is not a stone on the site long enough to act as a lintel , and to provide a basis for the stone-built superstructures which at present sit on Evans ' concrete and iron supports .
24 ‘ You 'd never keep Jupe awake long enough to listen to the arguments .
25 Hyperactive and overactive young children often can not concentrate long enough to sit at the table and so teaching this is a very important part of learning to control them generally .
26 Before the land bridge to North America emerged above the waters once again they had been isolated long enough to evolve as New World monkeys whose modern descendants walk on all fours and many of whom have prehensile tails .
27 Agnes chose quiche Maxim had n't been in Washington long enough to tire of seafood so he took crab .
28 May the author once again intrude upon whatever mood his narrative might have established long enough to report on current events ? ’
29 In other regions , e.g. Dorset or North Yorks. , a period of c. 20-30 years usually appears long enough to account for the major part of a feature 's development , ( this is possibly the working life of an individual craftsman ) .
30 The man who brought us hits Like Ferry Cross the Mersey and You 'll Never Walk Alone is on a nationwide tour , but stopped off just long enough to talk to Mike Rowbottom .
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