Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And you wo n't even let the boy stay long enough to see his mother ? ’ said the yeoman without animosity . |
| 2 | This was approached from two angles : first , what was known as the ‘ battle for the fourth grade ’ , an acknowledgement that substantial numbers of children either did not go to school or did not stay long enough to consolidate literacy . |
| 3 | After that , while never again did she stay long enough to have supper — or do the washing-up — Rosemary , still popping across to Leith 's and Sebastian 's flat at any time , accepted about two invitations in particular each week for coffee . |
| 4 | The two deaths recorded during this study both occurred in patients who were moribund when first assessed and did not survive long enough to reach hospital . |
| 5 | His only problem was , would he survive long enough to see through what was in some ways the most monumental task he had yet set himself ? |
| 6 | When the life expectancies of the shrimps are short then most of those which start life as males may not survive long enough to become females . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If you can not wait any longer to buy , the next step is to work out what you can afford to borrow , and from there the likely price range of your new house . |
| 9 | FACING PAGE Many dogs will instinctively jump up either to seize a toy or as a greeting . |
| 10 | This subject added : " Occasionally I hear the first movement of his Third Concerto , which I do not know well enough to construct in my mind when I am fully conscious . " |
| 11 | If we decide , in the case of the baptism study , that we must carry out fieldwork to collect data which is not to be found in already published sources we must consider how best to utilize what resources we have . |
| 12 | Having settled the tripartite and integrated structure of our students ’ training needs , we should perhaps consider how best to provide for them . |
| 13 | Starting at the top of the bank , cut out a rough sloping path to bottom , slightly above intended step levels , using scale drawing to let you know how deep to dig at any point |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm afraid I do n't know how else to explain it . |
| 15 | ‘ I did n't know how else to shake you out of your melancholy — and I did so want Hilary back . ’ |
| 16 | We might not know how best to manage waiting lists , but we do n't need sociologists to complicate the basics by telling us they 're not queues . |
| 17 | You may not always do just what friends tell you , but they are the sounding boards who let you know how far to go . |
| 18 | I have to know that sort of thing otherwise I would n't know how hard to fire the retro-rockets to give you a gentle landing . |
| 19 | Boys and girls from all over the UK will join Kristian for a day in London , and will discuss how best to encourage people to re-cycle their steel cans . |
| 20 | At seven-thirty he dialled again , and could wait no longer to wake Sam . |
| 21 | Yet they could wait no longer to tackle Paris . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm sorry to bring my troubles here but I really did n't know where else to go . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I did n't know where else to put him . ’ |
| 24 | Well we did n't know where else to send them . |
| 25 | I did n't know where else to get it in . |
| 26 | We will certainly need very soon to reconsider the levels of subscriptions paid by the employed Bar in comparison with those paid by those in private practice . |
| 27 | This takes on an added significance when it is remembered that geriatrics and the terminally ill are regarded as the failures of the health service and are often consigned to the young and inexperienced who , as one doctor recently put it , ‘ do strive very officiously to keep people alive because they are interested scientifically and they want to use every method they can as part of their training ’ . |
| 28 | Pillar or ‘ short climbing roses ' By and large , training and tying into a single pillar or post is only suitable for shorter growing climbers that do not grow long enough to clothe larger areas like walls and pergolas . |
| 29 | Even then , would it bring in enough to repay Crédit Lyonnais 's lending ? |
| 30 | " I told them three days before we can finish repairs , " he told us , " but we can do enough tomorrow to hold us to Banda , if weather is good . " |