Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably to smash the ice off , I guessed . |
| 2 | Soon a sinuous tentacle slipped out and groped the bait , then other swift tentacles , and he began skilfully to coax the octopus up . |
| 3 | Most carers have attachment and affection to sustain them ; recognising that the deepest levels of such feelings are not enough to see the process through , involves some grief . |
| 4 | At first it seemed big enough to drive a train through . |
| 5 | The chemical smells of modern tap water may stop a cat drinking from its bowl , but they are not strong enough to drive the animal back physically from the corner of the kitchen floor where the bowl is placed . |
| 6 | It has , too , an inspirational engine : wailing gloriously when revved hard , yet still docile enough to pull the car along tamely in traffic . |
| 7 | ‘ In which time Inspector Cotton , and his minion Sergeant Mack , have bestirred themselves sufficiently to write the case off as a killing during petty larceny ! |
| 8 | If one is brave enough to try the draft out on critical , expert colleagues , one can be reasonably sure that what emerges at the end will be free of double questions , ambiguities , leading questions , and so on , and the helpful colleagues , in pretending to be informants , will also probably have thought up some difficult-to-classify answers too . |
| 9 | But what about adding a twist to the puzzle : the task is not merely to find a way out , but to find the shortest route to the way out . ’ |
| 10 | Bears are exceedingly thin on the ground in European forests and these days ravening packs of wolves rarely come howling across the Danube when the winter is hard enough to freeze the river over . |
| 11 | It 's big enough to hide a body in . ’ |
| 12 | As he was bending down to pick the post up off the mat he felt a cold hand on his exposed backside — little suspecting that it was the family dog giving him a friendly greeting . |
| 13 | So to sort the thing out : Stavrogin has designs on the child ; he kisses her hand , puts her on his knee , whispers to her . |
| 14 | First , the arguments for and against are so soporifically dull that no one will ever stay interested long enough to sort the question out . |
| 15 | Your tongue is big enough to clean the pot out without you using anything else . |
| 16 | To question him in detail and endeavour to reconcile his answers , to closet him with accountants and sharp practitioners learned in the wiles of insolvency and bankruptcy , was only to put the case out at compound interest of incomprehensibility . |
| 17 | I got the crow 's cage again and afterwards was sent inside to do the washing up in the Corporals ' eating area . |
| 18 | In a hectic 64th minute spell Collins headed the ball back to midfielder Martin Murray who completely fluffed a header and Gardiner raced in only to blast the ball over . |
| 19 | She bent down to put the bottle back in her case , then stood erect . |
| 20 | I ca n't believe anyone would be stupid enough to trail a wire on to power cables and then leave it lying around for someone to touch . ’ |
| 21 | An electric eel is powerful enough to knock a man out . |
| 22 | And working these odd nights in a care , a nursing home , the pay 's not good enough to keep a family on . |
| 23 | ‘ That 's not enough to build a marriage on ! ’ |
| 24 | While the middle single coil on the EG-2 is of regular design , the single coils on the EG-1 are designed especially to keep the noise down , and presumably also to emulate Gibson 's P-90 in picking up more of the vibrating string , thanks to some added width . |
| 25 | There was no time to get back into the right position , take a breath and gently squeeze the trigger ; it was up and bang , and with my whole body unbalanced and both hands on the gun I fell forward , rolling as I did so to keep the gun out the sand . |
| 26 | Mandle 's calculation of an average benefit of £816 in the 1890s indicates a threefold increase since the 1860s , and would have been enough perhaps to start a man off in a small business . |
| 27 | He may sit at a table , which has to be big enough to spread the garment out on it . |
| 28 | ( Always put a knowledgeable and reliable person at the tail , and remind them only to hold the tail down if that is necessary to move the glider easily . ) |
| 29 | ‘ About wide enough to thrust a bayonet through , I reckon , ’ he added . |
| 30 | Six days later , by the following Wednesday evening , she was able not only to lift the cigar up into the air but also to move it around exactly as she wished . |