Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not know why New Town , on Poole Bay , failed so completely to come off . |
| 2 | If it persists long enough to block out sunlight for an period , it will have the effect of wiping out phytoplankton , with potentially-disastrous effects for all marine life further up the food chain . |
| 3 | It became obvious that the Parents ' Action Committee needed to find somewhere else to carry out its own work . |
| 4 | The ARFU 's decision has still yet to sink in with many rugby traditionalists but Channel Ten displayed instant commitment to their new deal when they televised the tickertape parade live throughout Australia . |
| 5 | The underground economy in every socialist state , however , has always been resolutely capitalist , and so my friend Kurowski and I have come here tonight to find out how the world 's oldest profession is adjusting to the new economic realities . |
| 6 | When I was about 14 , I remember my sister and I pledging quite seriously to grow up and defy convention ; to be women who still wore jeans and long hair at 30 . |
| 7 | But she found she was n't proof against his sudden closeness , nor his smiling charm as his eyes tried yet again to seek out the curves of her body hidden so discreetly from his probing by her chosen armour . |
| 8 | Things were happening too fast to keep up with . |
| 9 | He came so often to check up on Faye that his presence was hardly cause for special comment , let alone celebration . |
| 10 | SIR — In turning over a new leaf , the Labour Party would do well also to turn over a new blossom . |
| 11 | You 've done extraordinarily well to get on to it at all . ’ |
| 12 | This system has inherent dangers , as forced rye-grass can grow too quickly to take up important minerals , particularly magnesium , and overdoses of some elements can lock up others in a form not available to plants . |
| 13 | Among the most important evidence to emerge from analysis of Mansell 's start are that his Ferrari was not lined up straight and telemetry on the Ferrari indicated that he had fiercely defended his position , turning right twice to close out Prost . |
| 14 | Scrap metal was to be used more efficiently to eke out imported steel and scrap , and the shortage of fuel oils would be resolved by resorting to bituminous slate and lignites which , according to Franco , existed " in fabulous quantities " in Spain . |
| 15 | ‘ About us ? ’ she said , turning upright again to go on treading water . |
| 16 | They ca n't see far enough to make out the hollow . ’ |
| 17 | Like other Central Europeans who had lived and grumbled under the Habsburgs , Hungarians have had even more to grumble about since . |
| 18 | While Europe is in the grip of the tightest recession for 50 years , games machines like Nintendo 's Game Boy , Sega 's Game Gear and the Atari Lynx are barely being produced fast enough to keep up with demand . |
| 19 | They stimulate vigorous competitive root growth near the surface and can force plants to grow too quickly to take up their full needs of other nutrients . |
| 20 | She scrabbled away unbalanced , going too fast to stand up . |
| 21 | A local ethical scepticism , for instance , tends very quickly to spread out and become a general scepticism about the unobserved or about the possibility of scientific knowledge . |
| 22 | Early potatoes should be sprouted indoors now to go out in spring . |
| 23 | Jonathan has committed himself to rising early enough to get in for work before 9.00am . |
| 24 | Some cooks are born great , others have their natural skill improved by training , yet others train hard enough to make up for a lack of natural talent . |
| 25 | A final technical point on audio versus video recording : it takes no longer to set up for a simple video recording than it does to position a microphone for an audio recording . |
| 26 | They were moving too fast to jump out . |
| 27 | Indeed , many clarets , even the classified growths , are drinking before their 10th birthday while others , of course , will take much longer to come around . |
| 28 | You know it 's a mathematical er er fact that it wo n't take any longer to go along . |
| 29 | ‘ There are people who feel strongly enough to lie down in front of bulldozers , ’ she said . |
| 30 | Then , when they found her , he 'd have even more to worry about . |