Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , it 's just somewhere to sit in and look out at the en , er the ships and boats going by . |
| 2 | A tacit collusion is set up between narrator and reader not to take the novel too solemnly , but rather to sit back and enjoy the show . |
| 3 | Disillusioned with the cottage and its problems , he had boarded up the windows and returned to Toronto , meaning eventually to come back and make a final decision about his ill-advised purchase . |
| 4 | The Company was not powerful enough to go inland and kidnap slaves , and had great difficulty keeping up its coastal garrisons in the unpleasant and unhealthy conditions in which they lived , but in any case , military expeditions to capture slaves were unnecessary . |
| 5 | But there was nothing around that moved me enough to go out and change things . |
| 6 | On the other hand , you do need the child 's cooperation , especially if he is old enough to go out and buy sweets or other foods for himself . |
| 7 | Whether he is sober enough to go back and fetch his dilapidated car , or should soldier on , is the question here , or at any rate part of it . |
| 8 | I said what would I like to say , disgusted with the way he 's been treated , I said my father left intensive care at one o'clock on Friday , we was told he was gon na leave there at four o'clock to go home and have a meal and be with him when he went on the ward , when we came back , he 'd been moved , he 'd gone on the ward , he was plonked in the chair , his catheter was on his lap , it had leaked all over him , his dressing was hanging off and seeping with green stuff the wound on his leg was run all down over his foot , he 'd got no cover on his seat so he could see , Dave said they looked and they did n't look very bloody nice |
| 9 | He added : ‘ People from all over the country , people we have never heard of , have been good enough to sit down and write lengthy letters , to send flowers at great expense to a boy , just saying Tim Parry , Warrington , Cheshire , and it is getting to the house . |
| 10 | I had seen Don sloping about the beach , still not satisfied with the surf , not enough to swim out and take shots , anyway . |
| 11 | Not fool enough to stand aside and watch the best thing that 's ever happened to me wither away because I 'm too scared to let it put down roots . |
| 12 | It was some time before she could gather her forces sufficiently to stand up and rest her hands on the chill white plaster of the window embrasure . |
| 13 | Do n't you love your grandmother enough to come downstairs and give her a little goodbye kiss ? ’ |
| 14 | I have probably saved you from years of frustration , waiting and hoping for someone good enough to come along and kill the one I have taken from you . ’ |
| 15 | And so Bickers moved on to form Levitation , and into his shoes stepped Simon Walker , just long enough to tour extensively and to record the latest album before he , too , split . |
| 16 | Here was a gravity you could argue with ; here was a horizon close enough to reach out and grasp hold of . |
| 17 | Most modern , written , constitutions seek not merely to set up and define the main organs of the state and to distribute public power amongst them , but also to state a range of constitutional guarantees for the subject , frequently limiting the power of organs of the state to this extent . |
| 18 | Infuriated , she forgot herself sufficiently to reach out and prod his knee . |
| 19 | It is designed as a desktop printer , having a small footprint and being light enough to pick up and move comfortably . |
| 20 | It is designed as a desktop printer , having a small footprint and being light enough to pick up and move comfortably . |
| 21 | So when we actually got out there , we go out to work in some capacity or another , either to carry out a survey of the logistics or perhaps to sort out and look at the way in which one can set up an immunisation programme in a refugee camp . |
| 22 | As Robin said to me later , ‘ suddenly to walk in and to see a sea of faces , all of whom I knew well , was the most tremendously stirring moment . |
| 23 | An antagonist is a substance which is similar enough to a neurotransmitter to occupy its receptors , but is not similar enough to fit perfectly and change the cell 's membrane potential , thereby blocking the receptor . |
| 24 | Marcus joined the line to collect a towel which turned out to be just big enough to wrap around and tuck in . |
| 25 | Again this is a common and ‘ normal ’ reaction , but many people feel so ashamed of thoughts like these that they hardly dare express them unless they feel safe enough to do so and trust the person they are talking to sufficiently for such a revelation to seem acceptable . |
| 26 | This is the problem mentioned above — the question whether the ME open /e : / class merged in EModE with ME /a/ , only to separate again and undergo subsequent merger with ME close /e:/ . |
| 27 | Once a guy came running after me , he must have run fifty yards up the road , but I had to ignore it , because I ca n't be big-headed enough to turn round and go , ‘ Oh , he 's running after me . ’ |
| 28 | I love him a lot but long to settle down and have a family of my own . |
| 29 | Almost everyone has a story to tell about dream incorporation — for instance dreaming about Arctic exploration only to wake up and find that the covers have slipped off and he is freezing cold , or dreaming of bells ringing only to wake up eventually to find that the alarm clock has been clattering for the last few minutes . |
| 30 | Everyone but the columnists of the Daily Mail and the Daily Express knows that the dole is n't enough to live on and asks the rhetorical question , " How do people manage ? " |