Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I promise , but not at the moment cos it needs a lot of setting up , I 'll get myself to set my computer up specially to make those disks |
| 2 | I said that I thought I could just about get my act together sufficiently to come . |
| 3 | He said , ‘ You understand that in my capacity as stage manager it 's my job not only to train you in your chosen career but to guide you in other respects . ’ |
| 4 | When a servaton finally appeared , I ordered a goblet of the fuming Paoostyc liquor called Old Sunburst , raised my mask just enough to gulp it , then ordered two more . |
| 5 | ‘ I raised my game just enough to get through the early rounds , ’ he said of his performance . |
| 6 | It 's a full-time job ; in fact I 've just spent my leave there simply to give them a break for a few days . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But when you go on telly there has to be some compromise , like I swear all the f—ing time , but that does n't bother me , I do n't feel like I 'm selling my life away just to get on the telly . ’ |
| 8 | Shall I take my meal somewhere else to eat it ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I had to spend a month in a cast , ’ he recalls , ‘ so when they set the cast , I had them set it so I could move my arm just enough to play . ’ |
| 10 | She ran them down my arm lightly enough to make me shiver . |
| 11 | Trying to be positive about her inability so far to have a child , Wendy says she tells herself that the whole experience has made her a stronger person . |
| 12 | Its diminished stature is mainly due to its continuing economic difficulties and its inability so far to break out of an increasingly stultifying dependence on Soviet aid and trade subsidies . |
| 13 | The aim of everyone , irrespective of weight , should be to modify their eating very slightly to maximize health benefits . |
| 14 | From the 1880s the regime made plain its determination not only to halt any further movement in the direction of public participation but in some respects to reverse the reforms of the 1860s . |
| 15 | He had already recognised that she was wearing poor clothing , and it was also obvious that she was taking her work seriously enough to sacrifice her privileged lifestyle and live among those of whom she wrote . |
| 16 | They were eminently suited to the work and knew their ship and its equipment well enough to keep things going which also suited the administration at Headquarters . |
| 17 | The party behind , in another special , paid their engineer well enough to drive into the rear coach and smash it — they being rivals with the stranded party to serve the same area with a new railway . |
| 18 | Leaning across to the fellows closest to him , he attracted their attention long enough to introduce Loretta . |
| 19 | America seems critical of just about everything Japanese : its persistent trade surplus , its reluctance to liberalise rice imports , its failure so far to provide even a token force in the Gulf . |
| 20 | Hollywood stars Kurt Russell , William Baldwin and Scott Glenn , who play Chicago firemen in Backdraft , took their roles and their safety seriously enough to train as firemen for several weeks before filming began . |
| 21 | Did she know her husband well enough to come to rescue him from the consequences of his own indiscretions ? |
| 22 | The Eldest Son 's wife had gone quickly to fetch her a glass of tepid water , which she drank carefully , tipping her mask back fractionally to accommodate the glass . |
| 23 | Vivienne Westwood 's Kings Road shop changed its name yet again to become World 's End , and started showing collections . |
| 24 | Most college teachers are more down-to-earth : solid citizens and safe , intellectual craft workers , who mostly know and love their subject well enough to wish to share their enthusiasm for it with their students . |
| 25 | I think the mother would soon regain her health if she had her daughter back again to live with her , at least for a period . |
| 26 | She raised her voice just enough to hint at domination . |
| 27 | Was her voice loud enough to carry to the next table ? |
| 28 | This would be well under the cost of the facility for the authority but would encourage those who could buy their care more cheaply to do so . |
| 29 | Chief among them , and born of the group 's increasing feeling that they stood far something , embattled against a hostile world , was their tendency not only to see merit where none existed ( in the poetry of Fox , for example ) , but actually to think that belonging to the group — which began at around this period to be known as the Inklings — was in itself a sort of merit . |
| 30 | He had also come to respect Irina for her ability so rapidly to transform herself into a reasonably well-dressed , reasonably good-looking girl . |