Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The better-known Cabinet Ministers moved in a stately fashion as if speed of foot might trample accidentally a party worker bent upon homage ; better to tread slowly so as to receive fittingly the admiration of many . |
| 2 | And a team had been sent in as normal for initial investigation , only to retreat almost immediately when their equipment had registered the fact that this was a Secondary Darkfall . |
| 3 | Although we found the geese , the nests were long deserted and the large creches of goslings were big enough to run much faster than we could . |
| 4 | The Hungarians and Belgians broke away from the Italians and the two British crews dropped back and were being closely tailed by Folkesson/Skoldbek at Chertsey although the Swedish crew were only to get as far as Shepperton before blowing up . |
| 5 | ‘ Better to marry too much than not at all , ’ she said cryptically . |
| 6 | Only to cease as abruptly as it had begun . |
| 7 | Twice before it had stopped , allowing them to get close , only to move away again as their senses had reached a fever pitch of readiness . |
| 8 | The covers rustled and her tightly held muscles loosened a bit , only to clench tightly again as he chuckled . |
| 9 | With so many difficult decisions to be made , ‘ Jacki ’ is happier than most players to accept his manager 's warning not to look further ahead than the next game . |
| 10 | However , Lambarde 's marriage to Sylvestre was not to last much longer than his first , for after bearing him four children she died two weeks after the birth of twins on the 1st September 1587 , scarcely 4 years after marrying him . |
| 11 | But remember not to call here again unless I ask Katie to bring you . |
| 12 | Settlements emparked in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries tend not to survive too well as earthworks , but abandoned sixteenth-or seventeenth-century garden schemes often incorporate remains of village earthworks . |
| 13 | In the Alice-in-Wonderland world of European agriculture , farmers are paid more to grow more even when nobody wants to buy what they produce . |
| 14 | The silence — for the sound of birds and sea adds up to silence as beautifully as we ever know it in the noisy world of today — together with the sweetly moving air , and the scents of thyme and bell heather and sun-warmed bracken , all combined to distil something very potent . |
| 15 | ‘ And there are some boys who are just out to go as far as they can with a girl and get rid of her after a couple of days . |
| 16 | It 's a huge contract , and management are eager to get the plants four hundred and fifty staff back to work as soon as possible . |
| 17 | They were instructed to fob them off with promises in order to get them back to work as quickly as possible . |
| 18 | There is little doubt that Hamer have achieved what they set out to do as far as producing great vintage guitar tones from contemporary instruments . |
| 19 | Even then she had found it difficult to get up in the morning , had begged and pleaded to be allowed to lie in a little longer , had gone back to sleep more often than not , the forerunner , Cecilia supposed , of her present practice of often lying in bed till noon . |
| 20 | She turned out to have rather longer than that . |
| 21 | He had pulled a hamstring during his warm-up and had done well to patrol as relentlessly as he did for an hour . |
| 22 | ( I use the phrase ‘ representational role ’ rather than ‘ meaning ’ here to hew as closely as possible to the line of the second scenario . ) |
| 23 | She was just about to go inside again when over to her right , by the high stone wall that marked the boundary of the Roscarrock estate , she heard a single , high-pitched whistle , and looking round she saw a face observing her from the other side . |
| 24 | To light it at arms length and then to stand well away while it fires and never return to a firework if it does n't seem to go off . |
| 25 | It was only a couple coming in from the terrace , and she was about to look away again when she caught sight of a tall , stooping man standing outside and peering lugubriously at her through the glass . |
| 26 | I wan na know how to get there though cos if |