Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said his name was Pearson , he was from coypu control and would it be all right for him to take a look round the lake ? |
| 2 | Not to live in fascist Italy ( it was still all right for her to spend a month or two , with her British passport , with her mother and me and carry messages over the border for the underground ) . |
| 3 | John would have heard enough of you on the phone to be convinced that it was a erm right for you to have a chat with , could |
| 4 | That was the result of her sleeping badly on the ‘ plane , and was serious enough for her to wear a neck scarf during her week of practice , but it caused no problems once the competition began . |
| 5 | They were still there , attached to her by unbreakable strings , but at least they retreated enough for her to have a breathing-space in which to resolve them . |
| 6 | His hands sometimes stopped shaking long enough for him to light a fag or give his teeth the once-over with Pepsodent , but that was every other Scumday in a month with a zed in it . |
| 7 | By then , Aitken 's pulse rate had decelerated enough for him to give a rational appraisal of the day 's events . |
| 8 | It was large enough for him to have a grand study with five windows ; yet small enough for him to discourage visitors without obvious discourtesy . |
| 9 | Here the staccato ranges presumably from ‘ snow ’ to ‘ rain ’ but hardly to ‘ hail ’ It is here where , given the speed of Mozart 's writing , the exact character of the staccato was not important enough for him to make a conscious effort at graphic differentiation , and where , as a consequence , dots and strokes have the same meaning . |
| 10 | Briefly Jaq entertained the notion that he was being tested by some Hidden Master of his secret order who had instructed Baal Firenze to send him to Stalinvast to assess whether Jaq possessed supreme courage and insight — enough for him to become a Hidden Master himself . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , Walter 's objections had been strong enough for them to yield a little . |
| 12 | But he does not bring it close enough for me to take a hold . |
| 13 | In other words , a unit which comprises several farms which is big enough for us to move tenants about , and big enough for us to retain a management structure . |
| 14 | I had our fee in my pocket — enough for us to have a magnificent seafood dinner at a place just off the Gran Via , with a couple of bottles of wine . |
| 15 | button far enough for it to take a picture then . |
| 16 | A There are a lot of Tanganyikan cichlids you can keep in your tank , but I am afraid it is only large enough for you to keep a pair of a single species . |
| 17 | Ferguson , who failed to land 16-goal Alan Shearer and bought Dion Dublin — only for him to break a leg — is also thought to be watching Dundee United 's Duncan Ferguson . |
| 18 | Pinto confirmed that a prototype Alpha box would be around by the end of the year ( UX No 376 ) — other officials said the emergence of shrink-wrapped non-proprietary Unix environments — with the added incentive of Unix System Laboratories Inc 's Destiny and Microsoft Corp NT already scheduled for Alpha — will open up the workstation market sufficiently for it to stake a claim . |
| 19 | The village school takes pupils in January and September each year , and before they go I like to get together with them to have a talk , teach them how to put on socks and shoes , and other things they might need to know . |
| 20 | Baird rarely adds eggs to the purée as the scallop meat tends to be firm enough without them to absorb a fair amount of cream . |
| 21 | The pursuit of happiness through developing rewarding emotional ties with other people is something most of us spend a good deal of our lives attempting . |
| 22 | ‘ What — fifteen miles to Botley and fifteen miles back every week , just for you to join a Brownie Pack ? ’ he exclaimed . |
| 23 | It would have been just like her to take a method like this to exact a petty revenge for their disagreements , landing Folly with a pile of unwanted stock that she could n't refuse without souring relations with her supplier . |
| 24 | It would be just like him to regard a child as a competitor for my affections . ’ |
| 25 | He held his foster-brother away from him to get a good look at him . |
| 26 | See , I used to , I never took a mare away wi with me in foal , to foal down at fo away , you know , to be coming away without I had a to a foal 's head collar . |
| 27 | Feeling a little like I imagined a tomb-robber might feel , but knowing that my motives were of the very best , I relocked both doors and left without a backward glance . |
| 28 | ‘ It would beggar belief even more for me to attend a ladies ’ sewing circle , or a Bible reading for that matter , ’ she replied , hardly able to keep amusement out of her voice . |
| 29 | From directly above them came a noise like an explosion in a slate quarry . |
| 30 | Clegg could not release Miranda , the only way of making her happy , and face the punishment , but his selfish desire to have her always with him overrides a desire for her good , even once she becomes seriously ill . |