Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It appeared that one of Edna 's married daughters had split up from her husband and needed somewhere to go with her small children . |
| 2 | It was over 150 years ago that he saw the need for working men to have somewhere to meet in their spare time , to talk and relax . |
| 3 | Because you 're — mature enough to cope with my get-up-and-go , self-interested philosophy ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I know he has had his moments in the past , but perhaps he has never been at a club big enough to cope with his particular character . |
| 5 | They still wore the clothes they had fought in , with no decorations or marks of triumph , and filed past in dead silence , the Ras 's son coming in to sit in his stained clothes among all the gloriously dressed chiefs , a very silent but dignified figure . |
| 6 | Chewing on a lump of gristle in an effort to render it small enough to pass through her swollen throat , Evelyn thought back over her first meeting with Biff Thacker . |
| 7 | Had she gold , poor woman , so to entrap for herself that monstrous lump of selfishness ? |
| 8 | After all , you do n't invite the left in to gloat at your own failure . |
| 9 | In my view , an unsharp image in colour however beautiful will rarely be strong enough to stand on its own , whereas the same image in black & white can through the nature of the medium , become a tantalising and thought provoking subject . |
| 10 | He settled down to work on his chosen topic : the tradition of St Thomas Becket in literature , art and religion . |
| 11 | But , ’ said Terry darkly , leaning towards me , ‘ this is something you should know , if you 're lucky enough to work with him one day . ’ |
| 12 | The division of labour is the division of expertise which depends on the shared assumption that almost all work needs special skills , that we do better to concentrate on our own skills , leaving others to their own , and that this arrangement is functional for the community . |
| 13 | It was his great satisfaction in retirement to know that he was held in deep affection by many hundreds of students who were fortunate enough to come under his caring influence . ’ |
| 14 | He paused only to smooth down his unruly black hair and tuck his vest into his pants before groping his way down the long dark corridor to the kitchen door . |
| 15 | The danger facing American troops , military analysts say , is that the new civilian government headed by President Guillermo Endara may not be strong enough to rule on its own . |
| 16 | After all , he 's old enough to answer for his own actions . |
| 17 | You have only to look at your own publication of June 1991 to find racist comments related to the attractiveness of watersports to black people from the Chairman of the Transvaal Canoe Union . |
| 18 | If , at times in an ordinary reproductive life , I am moved not only to look after my own progeny but those of my sister as well , then I clearly increase my fitness above that due solely to selfish interests . |
| 19 | and that that 's why the Americans came into the war , they did n't come into the war to look after us , they came in to look after their own interest in the |
| 20 | If it is not strong enough to grow on its own , let it die as soon as possible . ’ |
| 21 | Conversely , do they trust you sufficiently to discuss with you those delicate and sensitive issues which need confidential handling ? |
| 22 | And something I have not seen anywhere else , though it makes good sense , is that in these mainly narrow streets , the shops have their signs strung out at right-angles across the way so that you can stand at one end and read their names from there , without having to go down to look at them one by one . |
| 23 | Carol had quite enough to do with her own job and all her own shopping without preparing meals as well and she hoped she would have a little rest after Christmas , now that people took time off in lots of offices until after the New Year . |
| 24 | The nickname he acquired at this stage — Tiger Tim — was less to do with his crusading journalistic style than his relentless pursuit of late contributors to the magazine . |
| 25 | Europe is now rich enough to deal with its tribal , idiotic hatreds and appallingly violent racism on its own . |
| 26 | He even puts agents in to spy on his own staff . |
| 27 | It 's all to do with their continued wilful rejection of Captain Bob 's morale-boosting pay and conditions package which , for some reason , they deplore . |
| 28 | As swiftly as she could she dropped the dress over her head and wriggled into it — only to emerge from its temporary darkness to see Luke Hunter 's eyes upon her , and a look of mocking appreciation on his face . |
| 29 | Report to me when you consider she is proficient enough to manage on her own , ’ Kerly said . |
| 30 | ‘ We all thought I was old enough to manage on my own , ’ he said laconically . |