Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He unclasped them just long enough to push a small packet across the desk towards Ruth . |
| 2 | Sink them just far enough to dimple but not fracture the paper surface |
| 3 | Were n't you together long enough to know that ? ’ |
| 4 | SIR Edward du Cann has been walking a financial tightrope for so long that the only surprise is that it has taken him so long finally to fall off . |
| 5 | So to catch him taking advantage of Sarah 's desperation like that shocked her far too deeply to allow her to tax him with it directly . |
| 6 | And it was the woman had cast him off ; she knew him well enough already to realise how much that had hurt his pride . |
| 7 | She knew him well enough now to see through some of the camouflage — perhaps all of it . |
| 8 | Kegan says they 're driving him mad already and he wants me there right away to talk to some bloody newspaper people . |
| 9 | This makes it much easier both to remove the plants when they require attention and to clean out the pool when necessary . |
| 10 | Although the term censorship is usually applied to instances of government interference in programme making , Brittan uses it much more broadly to include such structural and institutional constraints as the IBA 's power to withdraw franchises and its right to vet schedules and programmes . |
| 11 | Indeed , it was an achievement that they managed it just long enough to clinch the Heineken title and then , once it did not matter any longer began to lose games at a rate that would have been unthinkable during the previous years of unbroken triumph . |
| 12 | I thought it just as well to let you find out for yourself . ’ |
| 13 | The experiments hit the scientific and popular headlines over a number of years before falling into disrepute when others found it quite hard even to train flatworms reliably on this pairing , let alone repeat the later steps in the procedure . |
| 14 | Courtaulds ' challenge is to tune into the demand and drive it forward fast enough to translate technological lead into sales success . |
| 15 | It would take us too far afield to examine the content of this apostolic ‘ Word ’ . |