Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He unclasped them just long enough to push a small packet across the desk towards Ruth . |
| 2 | Sink them just far enough to dimple but not fracture the paper surface |
| 3 | Its never too soon to get a big idea planted in a young head . |
| 4 | ‘ I would advise you most sincerely not to keep me waiting . ’ |
| 5 | Were n't you together long enough to know that ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ With a river handy , and you past resistance , why not do the obvious thing , and shove you far enough in to make sure the current took you ? |
| 7 | Lydia thought herself very slow not to have realised all this before , but then she reflected that the rapidity with which they had learned the circumstances of this secluded family was in itself strange . |
| 8 | She knew me well enough not to ask what I was up to in front of a policeman . |
| 9 | But her sister begged her so hard not to leave her and to go on sleeping with her that she gave way . |
| 10 | SIR Edward du Cann has been walking a financial tightrope for so long that the only surprise is that it has taken him so long finally to fall off . |
| 11 | So to catch him taking advantage of Sarah 's desperation like that shocked her far too deeply to allow her to tax him with it directly . |
| 12 | And it was the woman had cast him off ; she knew him well enough already to realise how much that had hurt his pride . |
| 13 | She knew him well enough now to see through some of the camouflage — perhaps all of it . |
| 14 | Fortunately Chief Petty Officer Richard Saunders RN , my husband 's father , had taught him very early how to box the compass and he was able to bring her north of Scotland , round our north eastern seaboard and bring her in to Chatham dockyard for paying-off . |
| 15 | Kegan says they 're driving him mad already and he wants me there right away to talk to some bloody newspaper people . |
| 16 | The wicket in the west door opened silently ; he did not mark it until its weight carried it gently right back to knock against the wall . |
| 17 | This makes it much easier both to remove the plants when they require attention and to clean out the pool when necessary . |
| 18 | Although the term censorship is usually applied to instances of government interference in programme making , Brittan uses it much more broadly to include such structural and institutional constraints as the IBA 's power to withdraw franchises and its right to vet schedules and programmes . |
| 19 | Indeed , it was an achievement that they managed it just long enough to clinch the Heineken title and then , once it did not matter any longer began to lose games at a rate that would have been unthinkable during the previous years of unbroken triumph . |
| 20 | I thought it just as well to let you find out for yourself . ’ |
| 21 | The experiments hit the scientific and popular headlines over a number of years before falling into disrepute when others found it quite hard even to train flatworms reliably on this pairing , let alone repeat the later steps in the procedure . |
| 22 | Courtaulds ' challenge is to tune into the demand and drive it forward fast enough to translate technological lead into sales success . |
| 23 | She knew it was wrong to hate her parents like this , but she was finding it very hard not to do so . |
| 24 | ‘ Whether it distracted everyone else long enough to slip five drops of something into Mrs Iverson 's coffee , I would n't know , Inspector . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , I know people such as you and Jones like yourselves too well not to make sure you 're safe . ’ |
| 26 | If I ring and invent some excuse she knows me too well not to see through it . |
| 27 | ‘ You must have thought me very slow not to get your meaning days ago . ’ |
| 28 | The interview on 8th at the Western General Hospital is partly fund-raising and John is advising me very strongly not to take it , and I am sure he is right . |
| 29 | It would take us too far afield to examine the content of this apostolic ‘ Word ’ . |