Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All three pupils are now following A-level course work at Aquinas College , Stockport and hope eventually to go on to university . |
| 2 | At first he left that aspect of the practice to David Bryce , his partner from the early 1840s , and then , after his move to Stratton Street , London in 1844 , finally abandoned it altogether to concentrate exclusively on country houses . |
| 3 | A few combinations scrambled over only to fall apart on landing . |
| 4 | It is history now how he followed that perfectly shaped tee shot by greening a sumptuous 4-iron — only to lose out to Nick Faldo 's answering birdie as the Open champion holed a 15-footer on which the engines had cut out long before it dropped . |
| 5 | She was frightened and depressed when they took her into hospital for the operation on December 22 , but she was fit enough to go home on Christmas Day . |
| 6 | The new puppy is very timid with strangers but now she is old enough to go out for walks , we have found she is growling at other dogs . |
| 7 | The baby was strong enough to go back to Riverstown with a monthly nurse after six weeks and he was duly baptized a Protestant in the Church of Ireland in Naas . |
| 8 | We then elected to stay on and opened up those two houses ( Bombay Burma ) for thirty officers who had been turned out of hospital from the fighting lower down , and Pop opened up St Michael 's school for about eighty soldiers until they were fit enough to go back to duty . |
| 9 | It thought about Daine , the only human being who had made an impact on his century large enough to impinge significantly on Yggdrasil 's consciousness . |
| 10 | And er can can we scrape away to say Chairman that er , you know this , this , this situation er it is not to do with government policies , we are paying a very heavy price to this country for world recession as we have paid this very high price , very very large amounts of money that had to be used for people who are unfortunate enough to fall out of employment . |
| 11 | It may therefore be that while a perfectly competitive market composed of producers big enough to benefit fully from economies of scale would be the ideal , something like the existing state of affairs , particularly against a background of merger control and regulation of anti-competitive practices , is the best realisable outcome . |
| 12 | " Other candidates tend to write out a plan which is lengthy in the extreme , only to write out in sentence form the plan as an answer . " |
| 13 | Reports from Kampuchea claim that the country 's 35,000-man army is good enough to stand up to Khmer Rouge incursions . |
| 14 | Autumn is an excellent time for this kind of construction work , when the weather is still mild enough to work outdoors in comfort , and there are relatively few urgent jobs to do in the garden . |
| 15 | One of his greatest knocks was the 143 at Port-of-Spain in 1968 — this after he had reached breaking-point in 1966 , only to come back with century after century in the 1967 Tests — but he still found touring the Caribbean a fairly distasteful affair , as revealed in his letter to his wife : ‘ We 're being taken for the biggest ride … the umpiring , the crowd and Charlie … it is downright cheating … |
| 16 | Royal Gait 's Flat career was then plagued with leg trouble and he was eventually sent to stud only to come back into training three years later . |
| 17 | Sent off for my tickets for the aforementioned match on Monday , only to find out on Tuesday that it 's been postponed ( effin Bright ) . |
| 18 | The Dean and his pet labrador are both depicted wearing dog collars ; the bursar , with ears big enough to flap over to Christ Church , is seen tightly clenching two money bags . |
| 19 | It is not enough to talk generally about reverence and respect any longer . |
| 20 | For example , it is not enough to talk simply in terms of the 103 ; the 103.2 , which formed part of a British system that we recommended in August 1985 was a completely different design from the present 103/4 . |
| 21 | Maurice had only to look around at Casterton to see the ideal place for his school . |
| 22 | Striker John Borthwick wasted his side 's best opportunity of the half , latching on to a loose ball on the edge of the Stoke penalty area and making space for himself , only to fire lamely at keeper Ronnie Sinclair . |
| 23 | He reached in with both hands , only to shrink back in horror when he encountered something cold and clammy beneath his hand . |
| 24 | Zora Neale Hurston was lucky enough to grow up in Eatonville , Florida , a black town run by blacks , so that she was spared the experience of racism in her formative years suffered by most black Americans . |
| 25 | This argument , based apparently upon the particular circumstances of a young woman in New Zealand whose daughter was unfortunate enough to grow up in care , itself an unusual experience , is dangerous and partial stuff . |
| 26 | The Marx brothers might have shown more tolerance than Karl Marx for Stalin 's antics : throwing food at guests unwise enough to nod off at table during his interminable late-night dinner parties , or racing round in meetings ‘ cursing like a cab driver ’ . |
| 27 | The players we have are good enough to do well without people like him . |
| 28 | After High Crag there is a steep , badly eroded descent to Scarth Gap from where it would be easy enough to descend down into Ennerdale . |
| 29 | This is not to say that there are not many households where there is peace and contentment , when the old person is fortunate enough to keep well in mind and body even when she becomes frail , and where the daughter prefers to remain at home , and is able to make a satisfying life for herself . |
| 30 | 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 . |