Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ But there is no way I 'm going to go on a tour just now simply to grovel to those people who still do n't think I can sing . ’ |
| 32 | ‘ We were prancing about making a racket in the middle of the night so they had a helicopter up straight away to see what we were up to . ’ |
| 33 | I 'll probably have a stroll round there just to get a tracksuit for , when Michael was |
| 34 | Everyone rushed out when he called , screwing up their faces , trying to hold their vision steady long enough to tell if it was Sigarup . |
| 35 | But if I were a free agent , I think what I 'd do now is keep Rainbow hammering away at this lost cause just long enough to put the wind up those damned smug ben Issachars . |
| 36 | Swindon Town 's run of success nearly came to a stop at Luton on Wednesday night … you must have heard that favourite football cliche about there never being an easy game … it was one of those for Town … they missed Glenn Hoddle 's influence and never settled against a Luton side that need the points just as badly to save themselves from relegation … |
| 37 | He therefore concluded that he had approached the theoretical strength quite closely enough to satisfy most people , and that if thinner fibres could actually be made , their strength would be very near to the theoretical value . |
| 38 | An example would be , if there 's er a strange person g gone up the neighbour 's drive , you know they 're on holiday and you hear a window smash , you need the police there straight away to deal with that . |
| 39 | His undimmed headlights showed the curve of the autobahn ahead far enough to keep up that speed . |
| 40 | For example , central government uses budgets rather more indirectly to fix taxes : they form the basic public expenditure requirements , but how taxes are fixed and whether a budget surplus or deficit is being planned are questions beyond the scope of the budgets themselves . |
| 41 | All too often , students engage in study that only results in shallow or superficial learning of the first type — for example , the rote learning of names , dates , superficial factual data and characteristics that you hold in your short-term memory just long enough to pass an examination and that are then rapidly forgotten , because they have not been internalized — perhaps because our psyches know they are not of much use in the long run . |
| 42 | The press also quite like to talk to the people who are actually doing the business . |
| 43 | The trick is to push a dispute just far enough to make your opponent cave in for fear of a court action , but not so far that it goes to court . |
| 44 | She 's in the basement watching ‘ the telly ’ ' — he picked out the words sarcastically — ‘ though she did glance away from the screen just long enough to tell me that it was her mother 's bingo night . |