Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gower needed just two runs to reach 7,000 in his hundredth Test and got them , only to fall immediately to a quite unnecessary flick down the leg side . |
| 2 | She is full of admiration for the care and attention she is receiving at the hospital but is already looking ahead to the time when she is strong enough to go on to a convalescent home . |
| 3 | Instead of towing amplified sweet nothings ahead of the school , they might do better to sit astern with a few well-chosen selections from The Osmonds ' Greatest Hits , or Singalongamax . |
| 4 | It is n't good enough to fall back on a somewhat arbitrary list of subjects without specific aims . |
| 5 | In a fierce , raw and , at times , downright nasty battle , Barnes led his besieged troops to glory only to hit out in a variety of directions afterwards . |
| 6 | She glimpsed again that girlish figure momentarily outlined against the walls of the abbey only to slip away like a wraith and be lost among the shadows of the beach . |
| 7 | She swam in what she hoped was the direction of the stairs , only to come up against a wall . |
| 8 | In workplace after workplace we find exploited workers , frightened workers , vulnerable workers , but little chance of recognition no hope of check-off and no one brave enough to come forward as a steward . |
| 9 | If the country 's nuclear experts really are as bright as they would like us to think , they should be bright enough to come up with a convincing case for spending so much money , or to find cheaper ways of demonstrating the technology . |
| 10 | It had been so vivid it seemed real , yet had she really been idiot enough to set out on a rough sea in a mere dinghy ? |
| 11 | There was a relationship between Jean Simmons ( then married to Stewart Granger ) and Burton which was so close that he continued embracing her , publicly , after the stroke of midnight one New Year 's Eve , only to look up to a slap in the face from Sybil , who instantly left the party — for New York . |
| 12 | My own guess , in the latter case , is that sheer ecstasy came with the discovery that it was possible not only to walk out of a marriage , but to do so and flourish , and that the rest of her life was devoted to recapturing this outrageous , outcast joy . |
| 13 | The Labour government , however , argued that it would seem like an act of ‘ sabotage ’ if Britain entered the talks only to walk out at a later date . |
| 14 | It should be small enough to be an effective policy , or decision-making group , but large enough to function effectively as a forum where the views and objectives of significant participants can be acknowledged . |
| 15 | In Wales , the ‘ derwyn corp ’ , is the name given to a large , ghostly bird which flies around a house where there is sickness , stopping only to tap loudly at a window if the patient is to die . |
| 16 | Steelworker hero Jeremy , 25 , said : ‘ I could n't believe he was daft enough to run straight into a castle . |
| 17 | A barn owl is n't strong enough to hold tight to a glove in a strong wind . |
| 18 | Last month the local PRI rammed through a law postponing the state election for 18 months , only to back down after a national outcry . |
| 19 | First , Charles was highly-educated ( and here he seems to have benefited from his mother 's personal concern ) , not only sharing the interest of ecclesiastical contemporaries in theology and political ideas , but learned enough to pose convincingly as a philosopher-ruler and knowledgeable enough about Roman Law to attempt self-conscious emulation of Theodosius and Justinian in his own capitularies . |
| 20 | Better to turn up with a single flower . |
| 21 | The City is no longer confident enough to pay blithely for a new trading system being developed by consultants at Arthur Andersen . |
| 22 | The slim angular shape was definitely well suited to a graphic style , but was the lay down of pigment soft enough to blend out in a more painterly manner ? |
| 23 | HARRISONS & Crosfield must really dislike being classified as an overseas trader if it is willing to go through the complex process of changing its listing only to end up as a miscellaneous industrial . |
| 24 | A typical pattern in psychosomatic illness is for the disease to fluctuate with periods when the symptoms disappear only to return again at a later date . |
| 25 | They have already had many changes of home in their comparatively short lives and it would unquestionably confuse and disturb them to leave England now only to return again in a matter of months should the Australian Family Court consider it right that they should make their home here . |
| 26 | He made it whistle and crack threateningly , only to wind harmlessly around a girl 's thigh or waist . |
| 27 | Some cooks are born great , others have their natural skill improved by training , yet others train hard enough to make up for a lack of natural talent . |
| 28 | Your stance must be long enough to dig in under a fierce attack . |
| 29 | My dear Theo , I wrote to you already early this morning , then I went away to go on with a picture of a garden in the sunshine . |
| 30 | Ah equally um , just to go off at a tangent a bit , um there 're a number of more radical theorists , in particular the um in the Bonnie Burstow book Radical Feminist Therapy , would say that um rather like with other forms of sexual crime , the people who 've been victimised , people who 've survived , are often inclined to say something along the lines of mm y'know did i did I bring it on myself kind of kind of feeling . |