Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents seek right to sue over injury to foetus |
| 2 | ‘ Put on the clothes you put on to go to church on Sunday . |
| 3 | Rose had moved back a little to stand in front of one of the shop windows , scanning the crowd with knowing eyes . |
| 4 | Individuals have gone on to work in support of bands such as Bon Jovi , to take part in national competitions , to form club acts and to undertake the musician 's bread and butter work playing in theatre bands . |
| 5 | Well more misery for Forest another defeat more injuries less to go from strength to strength and we 'll be right back . |
| 6 | ‘ So , here I am , Uncle Orrin , ’ she had said gaily , ‘ your naughty niece , exiled because she was silly enough to fall in love with a poor man who was only interested in her money . |
| 7 | And if she was naïve enough to fall in love with him — so much the better . |
| 8 | Its newly established corporate sales force is intended only to drum up demand among the Fortune 1000 . |
| 9 | Its newly established corporate sales force is meant only to drum up demand among the Fortune 1000 . |
| 10 | In theory , the scheme is meant to help pupils who would otherwise be unable to do so to benefit from education at an independent school , but Janet Finch argues that past experience of the direct grant system ‘ would lead one to suppose that many beneficiaries of such a scheme will be middle-class children ’ .24 In 1986–7 about 24,500 pupils attended independent schools under the Assisted Places Scheme in England alone , and this transferred £43 million of taxpayers ' money to independent schools . |
| 11 | THE MACHO MAN : His present is his presence : his life story , a feel of his biceps , a drunken kiss to any woman who is silly enough to stray within reach of his groping ; and , if he is feeling generous , the promise of a night out at his local . |
| 12 | It is merely to stand at variance with a long established tradition — a long established system of beliefs based ultimately on someone 's speculative interpretation . |
| 13 | A Peasants ' Revolt — the workers of Kent and Essex — led by Walter the tiler ( who became known as Wat Tyler ) , occurred in 1381 , in which they refused to pay the Poll Tax , and they gathered together to sweep in revolt into London , Although only a lad , Richard II subdued the revolt . |
| 14 | Or am I just plain incompetent — a liability to anyone reckless enough to venture onto rock with me ? |
| 15 | Your Directors unanimously recommend that you vote in favour of the aforementioned Resolutions , and intend themselves so to vote in respect of their own beneficial holdings totalling 117,180 ordinary shares representing 0.07% of the present issues ordinary share capital . |
| 16 | As strange as it sounds , the great popularity of Hitler already before the war had for the most part little to do with fanatical belief in the central tenets of the Hitlerian racial-imperialist ‘ world-view ’ , and even less to do with belief in the Party , whose leader he was . |
| 17 | The rate has been raised quite high enough to deal with overheating in the domestic economy . |
| 18 | And then , when he was alone , he would get drunk enough to sleep without dreaming of his mother screaming . |
| 19 | It is all to do with progress for progress ' sake . |
| 20 | And , perhaps to keep in line with the rest of British technology , it 's a bit of mixed bag — some of the ideas and features it contains are really good , but the implementation is n't so hot . |
| 21 | They form a rough diamond shape , and are in the same × 12 field , so that they are easy enough to recognize in spite of their dimness . |
| 22 | Quill-written characters consist of a series of more-or-less straight strokes , simple enough for a computer to turn into numbers and analyse , but complex enough to vary from scribe to scribe . |
| 23 | She was n't sure just how she felt , but she retained enough control to know that she could n't give in to shock in front of fitzAlan . |
| 24 | Many leading Whigs were dead : Shaftesbury had fled to Holland at the end of 1682 , only to die in exile in January 1683 ; Sidney and Russell were both executed for their part in the Rye House Plot , whilst another conspirator , the Earl of Essex , killed himself in the Tower ( although some suspected he had been murdered ) . |
| 25 | Some pages had apparently been torn out and separately burnt ; the brittle fragments of black ash had floated down to lie on top of the debris under the grate , old twisted matchends , coal dust , carpet fluff , the accumulated grit of years . |
| 26 | Staring through the streaming window , Nell gritted her teeth every time the bows pushed out over the top of a big wave , only to hang in space before dropping away into the sixty-odd feet of the following trough that seemed to her a mile deep . |
| 27 | When Father died , he left us both enough to live in comfort for the rest of our lives , regardless of our husbands ’ support . |
| 28 | Somehow , we drew strength from each other , enough to stave off death for a little while longer . |
| 29 | Although his head was throbbing almost intolerably , he 'd felt sober enough to ring for breakfast in his room , and had done his best to contemplate the ‘ Full English ’ he 'd so foolishly ordered for 7 a.m . |
| 30 | And if all that was n't reason enough to stay in bed in the morning , it proceeded to snow on our parade : Esquire 's opening festivities were blanketed by the worst storm to hit London since 1963 . |