Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And after all Elizabeth had done for her , heaven only knew it was little enough to ask in return . |
| 2 | He managed furthermore discreetly to put into circulation the audacious proposal that he should be the first Governor-General of the two independent states . |
| 3 | When at last he came down to Egypt , Joseph showed him all the love and respect that were a father 's due , all the love and respect that Ham had failed so conspicuously to show to Noah . |
| 4 | But you think it 's perfectly all right to talk about women 's tits and bums and stick pictures of them up all over the place . |
| 5 | He derided those who thought it was ‘ all right to stay in opposition so long as your socialist heart is pure ’ , and argued it was not they who suffered , but the poor in Britain and in the third world : ‘ We are not just a debating society . |
| 6 | Agnes chose quiche Maxim had n't been in Washington long enough to tire of seafood so he took crab . |
| 7 | The man who brought us hits Like Ferry Cross the Mersey and You 'll Never Walk Alone is on a nationwide tour , but stopped off just long enough to talk to Mike Rowbottom . |
| 8 | David Singleton , prosecuting for FACT , said Sturdy had worked in the video business long enough to learn about counterfeits . |
| 9 | Been in combat long enough to know about fall-back positions in case things go wrong . ’ |
| 10 | We found a few examples of workers who had been in the uninterrupted employment of a single organisation long enough to qualify for dismissal protection and statutory redundancy compensation rights , but who still had temporary status . |
| 11 | It took her much longer to get to Leominster Gardens , where Bob lived , than she had expected . |
| 12 | PC Hall , a 38-year-old father of two , was well enough yesterday to complain about hospital food which he refused to eat . |
| 13 | Two other ministers had already resigned since January , apparently also to go into opposition : Mohammed Djama Elabe , Minister of Health and Souleiman Farah Lodon , Minister of Public Adminstration . |
| 14 | Kenny was probably the most polished and was certainly the best full-back so far to play for Crystal Palace , and his distinguished career with us , Arsenal , QPR and England proves his quality . |
| 15 | Over 400 food premises which have failed so far to register with Langbaurgh Council could face heavy fines unless they do so by April 3 . |
| 16 | Grace had tried to persuade John long before to go to ballet classes , because she thought him small for his age and hoped the exercise might encourage growth , but he refused , saying ‘ Oh no , mummy , the boys will call me a sissy . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We 've just got to get our heads up in the second half of the season and go all out to qualify for Europe again . ’ |
| 18 | Wild and feverish with excitement , she sat down immediately to write to Boldwood , to inform him that she could not marry him . |
| 19 | Yet if this were indeed the law , then surely the Act must have had as its object something of greater moment than the nudie magazines and nude pamphlets which British juries were asked so regularly to assess for depravity . |
| 20 | ‘ Miles , I did n't come down here to talk about insurance . ’ |
| 21 | Well I felt very honoured that er that people should recognise er the fact that you know you did the job and they enjoyed coming down here to travel from Charlbury . |
| 22 | It is not enough simply to take into account the conditions at that particular time . |
| 23 | We want big changes and we want them quickly , but we can not see clearly enough how to set to work . |
| 24 | It will be easiest to explain the principles of heredity with the traits in which they were originally discovered , and only then to turn to behaviour . |
| 25 | Songs like ‘ Brand New Love ’ and ‘ Its So Hard To Fall In Love ’ — covered much to Lou 's flattered bewilderment by Superchunk — and newer material that will appear on the next full-length Sebadoh LP , to be released in the new year by Sub Pop and Roughneck , are typical of his style : eschewing traditional songwriting imagery and devices in favour of pure , honest expression . |
| 26 | And it 's foolish of him to have it when we 're all about to go into production and we 're so tired . ’ |
| 27 | The biggest of the children , a girl with a sweet , oval face and a stout stomach that strained the buttons of her green print dress , handed the baby she was carrying to a smaller sister and stepped eagerly forward to stand beside Martha . |
| 28 | Beckett 's failing narrators manage in their torrents of words only unstably to sustain in existence on a strange edge of death and silence , adrift in ‘ who knows what profounds of mind ’ ( Beckett 1984 : 288 ) . |
| 29 | He defended the Masai 's right not to go to school , and opposed their forcible recruitment into the King 's African Rifles during the First World War . |
| 30 | Ought we not rather to think in terms of partially intersecting views of context ? |