Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am writing hurriedly to you but I have thought it right to apprize you of this … |
| 2 | How could he hold her so tenderly one moment , only to treat her like this the next ? |
| 3 | They had driven over 1,700 miles in twenty-seven and a half hours , including frontier stops , only to miss it by five minutes . |
| 4 | Not strongly enough to kill me for that , but certainly strongly enough to make killing me satisfying in that respect also . |
| 5 | This even brought a ghostly chuckle ; Dr Neil 's being the Master again was enough to bring McAllister back , she thought , if only to provoke him to further jokes . |
| 6 | In addition I explained to her that , having found the original event and looked at it through adult eyes , there was no danger that she would put an end to one problem only to replace it with another , as might have happened if we had not investigated its origins . |
| 7 | Callinicos , defence of Marxism is erudite and compelling , and the fact that he runs out of steam over post-war art is of less moment than the fact that he takes the range of issues seriously enough to discuss them at all . |
| 8 | Do n't be a Chocolate Teapot , melting away when the heat 's turned up at school ; stand up for God and know that he loves you enough to help you through each day , however hot it gets . |
| 9 | Because such objects gain value as time elapses it means that a profit can be realised by anyone patient enough to conceal them for twenty years . |
| 10 | Physically she 's the epitome , almost a caricature of the male fantasy dream girl , and I was stupid enough to endow her with all the other attributes I thought the perfect woman should have . ’ |
| 11 | The maxims would serve only to guide him towards fuller awareness of the present situation . |
| 12 | The trouble is we never stop long enough to put them to good use . |
| 13 | My salary was barely enough to keep me in sliced white and undies , never mind maintain Mrs Dennis Parsons in the style to which she had become accustomed . |
| 14 | It is generally best to leave maintenance and repairs of central heating boilers to an expert service engineer , and to have your system serviced at least annually to keep it in good condition . |
| 15 | ‘ Being informed by Lord Hastings of your situation and assured by him that my lord of Gloucester intends no harm to the king your son — but , on the contrary , desires only to protect him from those who would harm him — on learning of this an hour ago whilst in my bed at York House , I at once arose and came hither . ’ |
| 16 | Although Weinberger opposed it , he did not often do so with force : partly because , it seemed to him , nobody was foolish enough to propose it with much vehemence . |
| 17 | It will be easy enough to bleach them with some Milk of Magnesia the night before he comes home . |
| 18 | Later , I managed to contact him and after a preliminary meeting , which lasted some thirteen hours , he was gracious enough to supply me with large-scale copies of maps of the area for me to be able to check his work — generosity indeed ! |
| 19 | So for some children it is deemed better to place them in small homes where it is easier to maintain continuity of care . |
| 20 | ‘ Believe me , Mrs Diggory , I have already seen enough to convince me of that ! ’ |
| 21 | His hunger was however strong enough to get him through that , along with the slice of ersatz brown bread . |
| 22 | They 're rich enough to pay for it and smart enough to get it for free . |
| 23 | Certainly so far as we are concerned we would completely recognise your position and we are in fact , since your position is shared by several other experts in their respective fields who have been good enough to assist us in this venture , doing our very best to see that the names of those who are taking part in the policy study groups do not become public property . |
| 24 | Of course , the Bill includes provisions to allow the assigned band to be changed if the value of the property changes sufficiently to take it into another band . |
| 25 | Several people have been er kind enough to remind me as General Secretary , and other people , that we 're all expendable . |
| 26 | Hemmed in by bicks and shoulders , besieged by people wanting to shake his hand , put questions , or merely to remind him of past meetings , Cameron was struggling to respond and make each person feel attended to . |
| 27 | Did he deliberately draw himself to your attention merely to involve you in this new Ordo — or because he hopes you might lance the boil of a conspiracy without him needing to show his own hand ? |
| 28 | The restaurant manager called all his waiters together to warn them about shady customers . |
| 29 | ‘ By saying that the documentary needed to face up to the frauds , if only to distinguish them from sincere practitioners . ’ |
| 30 | Some time ago , Rover 's management declared its intention to move all its cars up-market , perhaps to produce them in smaller volumes than in the days of Austin Rover , to charge higher prices and make more profit per unit . |