Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had to come especially to see you this morning , Leith , ’ he said earnestly as he fell into step with her . |
| 2 | ENOUGH TO DRIVE US ALL BANANAS |
| 3 | The two companies broke off negotiations in December only to restart them two weeks ago . |
| 4 | In connection with some furniture poor Mary was ill-advised enough to sell him last year . |
| 5 | The ‘ swing ’ from Labour to Liberal Democrat was 6.4pc , enough to win us both seats in the Willington West ward . |
| 6 | Just tell me why it had to be me who was stupid enough to help you last night ? ’ |
| 7 | I eventually got off the motorway and decided to drive straight to the hospital to see Toby , and paused only to buy him some fruit and a bottle of his favourite Bollinger . |
| 8 | And they will actually keep your deeds , erm work out if it is cheap enough to do it that way . |
| 9 | So to put it another way you could say in a typical year we would receive about twenty thousand complaints and enquiries about shopping . |
| 10 | In the case of the bookmarks shown in the photograph on the opposite page , I drew a border around the section that encloses the flowers , not only to give them additional definition but also because the parallel lines at the base help to decorate the bookmark . |
| 11 | In World War II American servicemen who parachuted out of aeroplanes screamed the name ‘ Geronimo ’ as a war cry , perhaps to give them added incentive to jump from a great height , and the karate kiai has something of this in it , too . |
| 12 | He lacked a driving force , though Constance was not sophisticated enough to put it that way . |
| 13 | Urgent or not , Sladen was experienced enough to give them thirty seconds of plati-tudes while they kicked their briefcases under the table , tugged at their waistcoats — both MI6 men wore them even on a hot June day — and shuffled their papers , although few of them were prepared to put much paperwork on view . |
| 14 | Even if only one peg in a hundred pegger is good enough to give them that chance . |
| 15 | But we are given such a huge sweep from birth to incipient death that the movie never draws breath long enough to give us any depth or conflict . |
| 16 | I hoped this trench was deep enough , and the roof strong enough to give us some protection from the increasing mortar fire that was now coming our way . |
| 17 | And mostly those were er married men who had a small place of their own which was n't quite big enough to keep them full time . |
| 18 | It also belongs to the Rugby Football Union , which shows the red flag on its grand slam tie that it was generous enough to send me this morning . |
| 19 | For a frustrated moment Maria suspected him of doing it deliberately , to punish her , or perhaps to teach her some sort of lesson . |
| 20 | But he was good enough to allow me some writing materials before I was taken back to my cell , formally charged with murder . |
| 21 | On that day , various poptastic things happened all over the world , all to convince you that AIDS is a terrible thing , that safe sex does n't mean no sex and that we must all love one another and usher in a new era of positivity etc etc . |
| 22 | Husband and wife kept up their own conversation , turning to the elderly lady from time to time only to offer her another cup of tea or a cake . |
| 23 | He meant , among other things , are you living with anyone ? and she knew it , but she cared too much for the day together to tell him one way or the other . |
| 24 | Tell Nettie that Mr MacKay has arrived , and ask her to be good enough to bring us some tea . ’ |
| 25 | In the second talk , Tom Helvin , director of the Diocesan Schools Department , told delegates : ‘ The main reason for our Catholic schools is religious growth and development of the children , not merely to make them practising Catholics , but to involve them fully in parish and church . ’ |
| 26 | She said no I think I 'll go home I 'll be alright , so I took her back home about eleven and erm erm I kept phoning her every hour on the hour just to make sure she 's alright , then I said I want you just to promise me one thing you 're not do anything silly , I 'm here , I do n't care what it takes , I 'm here , so she said alright then , so I said it 'll break mum 's heart it 'll break dad 's heart , |
| 27 | We 're trying to do things which on many occasions we 're actually doing things which are done at university with them , in a simplified form , of course , but just to give them this perspective , this view of physics . |
| 28 | Now just to give you some figures I mean same tariff that 's the world price supplied the rest of the world , in fact the tariff on it show them that the operation of a a tariff can affect erm world prices and just to give you some idea erm ah , can we just you know when we were talking about the net economic costs well they 're within the European Community , those costs . |
| 29 | Now just to give you some figures I mean same tariff that 's the world price supplied the rest of the world , in fact the tariff on it show them that the operation of a a tariff can affect erm world prices and just to give you some idea erm ah , can we just you know when we were talking about the net economic costs well they 're within the European Community , those costs . |
| 30 | Yes , but you see this is just to give you some idea of his mentality . |