Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this time of year there was n't enough milk anywhere in the village to borrow for more than a few days . |
| 2 | At this point I decided to go for broke so I wound in the other corn rod and changed this over to a boilie . |
| 3 | The Collector , his mind too feverish to recollect for more than a moment what all this activity was about , became absorbed in the contemplation of this pariah dog . |
| 4 | One is certainly not enough , when you consider the number of cars and drivers who use this stretch of motorway each day.It 's unwise for people tol have to drive for more than an hour and a half without taking a break . |
| 5 | If you wish to drive for longer than 12 months you must apply for a UK licence within 12 months of becoming resident . |
| 6 | If these remedies are being taken , it is undesirable to continue for longer than three weeks unless the patient is under medical supervision . |
| 7 | In the event it was to continue for longer than could possibly have been envisaged . |
| 8 | Arguments then ensued as to who allowed other speakers to continue for more than their allotted time . |
| 9 | It may be that like the other NCT groups people do not feel the need to attend for more than a few months ( ca n't stay a New Mum for ever ! ! ! ) and at the moment no one needs the MiE group I do not know and I would like to find out . |
| 10 | Erm no I 'd like just to go through that if I can . |
| 11 | But after a week of total failure to concentrate for more than a minute he had to acknowledge to himself that nothing was going right . |
| 12 | What have you the chance to know about other than your work ? ’ |
| 13 | With apologies for not being a perfect speech , but without any apologies for the symptoms that I 'm suffering too , because you all need to know about that as well . |
| 14 | Then I had to be honest , and say that I could not guarantee to work for longer than four months . |
| 15 | Jay had never known it to work for more than weeks . |
| 16 | ‘ I need to know for certain whether the Romanians do have him . |
| 17 | But I mean , I do n't think you need to worry about that cos I think got round that when they when they converted up to . |
| 18 | There were no ‘ off-the-shelf ’ prototypes to work towards other than the DGH cure focused service with all the faults already commented on . |
| 19 | I 'm sorry to write like this when you are so hard up yourself — Please do n't think I 'm bemoaning — but honestly this house is insupportable . |
| 20 | What moves me very deeply about primitive peoples is that they still attach an enormous importance to a certain kind of communication which we have lost ; and that is that they allow the being of the person they are with to communicate with more than words . |
| 21 | Well my feeling is that you know if yo if you 're car does n't run tinker with the carburettor and if it still is n't running right , tinker with something else , if you like , the fatal thing is to tinker with both because then you just do n't know what you 've got , and erm she 's been on , on this hormone replacement which is er er no big deal but , you know , hormones are |
| 22 | After the series in Australia , Mike Brearley announced that he would not be able to tour in 1980–1 as he wanted to continue his studies in psychoanalysis , and the England selectors decided to appoint a new captain for the start of the 1980 rubber . |
| 23 | ‘ You wanted to know in general where it 's destined for ? ’ the American asks . |
| 24 | Think later , be about five o'clock or quarter to five , or something like that depends when it 's on , have to come in early if they want to have it with us . |
| 25 | William Bellows , who was taken by Edmund Gosse to meet Hardy in June 1927 , reported Florence as saying : ‘ My husband used to write in this when sketching out the plots of his novels . |
| 26 | Is it that institutions have to prepare people to work in traditional as well as up-to-date professional settings , and so can not afford to be too ‘ progressive ’ ? |
| 27 | Didier Pironi told me they were about to leave the circuit for a hotel to meet in private where they could not be coerced by their bosses and , as it happens , along with a half-dozen other early colleagues , my car was well placed to follow the bus as it drove off . |
| 28 | Were the vezir to come from other than their number , their hearts would turn from thee , and the business of thy government would become disordered . " |
| 29 | Furthermore , cohort studies in Britain show that the relation between a woman 's family size and the family size in which she is brought up is positive , although not very strong : childless women are more likely to be single children themselves , mothers of large families tend to come from larger than average families themselves , even when other influences are controlled for statistically ( Kiernan 1989a ) . |
| 30 | I appeal to medical colleagues who are concerned about the persecution of this brave woman to write to General Than Shwe ( salutation : Dear General ) , Chairman , State Law and Order Restoration Council , c/o Ministry of Defence , Signal Pagoda Road , Yangon , Union of Myanmar . |