Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been twice into Ruane 's office , and the first time the block had been polite , and the second time he had been told rather less politely to sit on his hands and wait , like everybody else had to . |
| 2 | The wicket in the west door opened silently ; he did not mark it until its weight carried it gently right back to knock against the wall . |
| 3 | The only difference was that most of them had finished long enough ago to sunbathe on the terrace , not trudging off the mountain at 9.00 o'clock . |
| 4 | Although it took so long finally to dispose of the machinery and tanks , other material was removed from the incline during the 1920's as uses for it were found . |
| 5 | One thing I learned there was how to deal with people and basically just how to get through it all . ’ |
| 6 | Historical evidence shows that the so-called " present " tense could formerly be used much more freely to refer to the future than is now the case . |
| 7 | Compacts also provide an invaluable forum for dialogue between teachers and employers to discuss and clarify ways in which the curriculum should be developed so as best to provide for the needs and interests of students in and beyond school . |
| 8 | I decided long ago Never to walk in anyone 's shadow ; If I fail , if I succeed At least I lived as I believe , And no matter what They take from me , They ca n't take away my dignity . |
| 9 | Trying so hard not to weep at the demise of the old Post Office now replaced by a kit construction for other uses , I walked robotically to the cathedral like all the other tourists . |
| 10 | I felt like shit and I was trying so hard not to think of Lewis and Verity that I could n't think about anything else , but the day was fabulous ; clear and cold , the sky crystal blue and reflecting in the waters of hill-cupped lochans and the glinting length of Loch Add . |
| 11 | It crushed and lifted her breasts to create the deep fleshy cleavage he always tried so hard not to stare into . |
| 12 | He pulled away long enough to strip off the rest of his clothes , and she followed , unable to bear losing contact even for a second , dipping her head forwards to taste his skin , her fingers stroking his muscled back . |
| 13 | When he spoke , his voice was raised just loud enough to carry over the low-pitched brass rumbles . |
| 14 | The man who brought us hits Like Ferry Cross the Mersey and You 'll Never Walk Alone is on a nationwide tour , but stopped off just long enough to talk to Mike Rowbottom . |
| 15 | For just a few seconds , Lucinda hesitated ; for just long enough to take in the shock of white hair , the lined , weather-worn face and the tremendous size of him . |
| 16 | Though not in the ERM , its currency was pegged to it and in September Sweden toughed out wild currency markets by whacking its interest rates sky-high for just long enough to scare off the cowboys . |
| 17 | ‘ But there is no way I 'm going to go on a tour just now simply to grovel to those people who still do n't think I can sing . ’ |
| 18 | We might be asked just as well to vote on any three pages picked at random out of ’ Alice in Wonderland ’ as on the motions before the House tonight . |
| 19 | If this was not possible , then they had to be placed as ‘ hands ’ on conventional farms where they were close enough together to meet in the evenings with their Madrichim ( group counsellors ) for cultural communion . |
| 20 | It is still too soon to comment with any authority on the likely form of privatisation . |
| 21 | Genetic counselling was sought by all nine families , but it is still too soon to comment on their reproductive choices . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm usually too fully to eat after cooking a dinner party , ’ confesses Sheila . |
| 23 | We want big changes and we want them quickly , but we can not see clearly enough how to set to work . |
| 24 | The press also quite like to talk to the people who are actually doing the business . |
| 25 | But you think it 's perfectly all right to talk about women 's tits and bums and stick pictures of them up all over the place . |
| 26 | Now well enough to speak about the accident for the first time , he says it 's amazing he survived . |
| 27 | It was considered even less seemly to talk of the art market and collecting , but Bonito Oliva refused to bow to such conventions and , in 1974 wrote an essay entitled ‘ Mercato come opera d'arte ’ ( The market as a work of art ) , giving historical instances of how the market had often anticipated the choices of museums and art critics . |
| 28 | He would n't have been able to see well enough even to lock for them . |
| 29 | She knew him well enough now to see through some of the camouflage — perhaps all of it . |
| 30 | I try even harder not to think about what he might do to me if he ever got the chance . |