Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , it 's just somewhere to sit in and look out at the en , er the ships and boats going by . |
| 2 | A tacit collusion is set up between narrator and reader not to take the novel too solemnly , but rather to sit back and enjoy the show . |
| 3 | But when she was very sad she understood that sorrow casts out fear , and then the murderer could call with a few of his friends and she would tell them wearily to bugger off and they would go , since , after all , there can be no satisfaction in murdering the dead . |
| 4 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
| 5 | Disillusioned with the cottage and its problems , he had boarded up the windows and returned to Toronto , meaning eventually to come back and make a final decision about his ill-advised purchase . |
| 6 | The answer put by proponents of the British approach is that the effect of publications or performances is rarely to incite directly whether to crime or anything else . |
| 7 | Brazil 's component exports increased rapidly in the late 1980s , only to fall sharply as buyers shifted their purchases to other developing countries in 1990 when the Cruzado became overvalued ( Karmokolias , 1990 ) . |
| 8 | Pine trees somewhere in the foreground , open enough to see through but framing the picture . |
| 9 | The Company was not powerful enough to go inland and kidnap slaves , and had great difficulty keeping up its coastal garrisons in the unpleasant and unhealthy conditions in which they lived , but in any case , military expeditions to capture slaves were unnecessary . |
| 10 | When we write the stories of people we know , we often fall into the trap of identifying too strongly with our subject and not giving the reader enough to go on because the material is too familiar to us . |
| 11 | So it 's all about sharing things out and it gets into this sort of fractions when we get when there 's not enough to go round and we have to start cutting things up cutting the pizza up . |
| 12 | On the other hand , you do need the child 's cooperation , especially if he is old enough to go out and buy sweets or other foods for himself . |
| 13 | But there was nothing around that moved me enough to go out and change things . |
| 14 | Whether he is sober enough to go back and fetch his dilapidated car , or should soldier on , is the question here , or at any rate part of it . |
| 15 | Similarly , in Leechian terms , he upholds the Politeness Principle when he interrupts Hollar again ( p. 54 ) because he does so to affirm enthusiastically that he too remembers Peter Volansky , thus obeying Leech 's maxim of agreement , " maximise agreement between self and others " ( Leech 1983 : 132 ) . |
| 16 | I said what would I like to say , disgusted with the way he 's been treated , I said my father left intensive care at one o'clock on Friday , we was told he was gon na leave there at four o'clock to go home and have a meal and be with him when he went on the ward , when we came back , he 'd been moved , he 'd gone on the ward , he was plonked in the chair , his catheter was on his lap , it had leaked all over him , his dressing was hanging off and seeping with green stuff the wound on his leg was run all down over his foot , he 'd got no cover on his seat so he could see , Dave said they looked and they did n't look very bloody nice |
| 17 | But maybe these reactions are merely irrational vindictive emotions ( akin to vengeance ) which we ought morally to curb rather than indulge . |
| 18 | Chief Supt Baker added : ‘ The carnival is too big for Handsworth now and there are more suitable parks , big and accessible enough to cope better than the cramped Victorian streets of Handsworth . |
| 19 | The group also has evidence , from the Azores , of volcanoes rising above the waves only to sink again and again beneath the weight of accumulating lava . |
| 20 | Now I have finally begun , he wrote , I have only to go on and the end will arrive . |
| 21 | He added : ‘ People from all over the country , people we have never heard of , have been good enough to sit down and write lengthy letters , to send flowers at great expense to a boy , just saying Tim Parry , Warrington , Cheshire , and it is getting to the house . |
| 22 | I had seen Don sloping about the beach , still not satisfied with the surf , not enough to swim out and take shots , anyway . |
| 23 | Small enough to swim under and around , large enough to support a man , and big enough to teach all of us a lesson . |
| 24 | Better to go on as before than do that . |
| 25 | It 's relevant perhaps to report hereof that John Dennis has done a very useful spreadsheet of erm video profitability on a erm video by video basis , which we have actually a sort of profit and loss account for every year it was produced , and that is going to become a quarterly erm document which we can look at erm and that that 's very useful to and we did actually at our meeting discussing that yesterday we decided that we were going to erm try to break down erm the sales of that into title by market , did n't we ? |
| 26 | ‘ Thank you , Sweet Flute , but I wish only to wait here until my father comes . ’ |
| 27 | Not fool enough to stand aside and watch the best thing that 's ever happened to me wither away because I 'm too scared to let it put down roots . |
| 28 | It was some time before she could gather her forces sufficiently to stand up and rest her hands on the chill white plaster of the window embrasure . |
| 29 | So it out to be easy enough to work out where ten is since bar eleven starts the fourth line . |
| 30 | what to do when you stand up there like an idiot so to sum up that the three most important things the span of conception nerves and clusters . |