Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [to-vb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real mystery about his story is not why two wives refused to make love to him , but how he stopped talking about himself long enough to invite them to bed in the first place . |
| 2 | The trouble is we never stop long enough to put them to good use . |
| 3 | In a flash of inspiration , they replaced the oil with mashed bananas , which lubricated the engine just long enough to get them to civilisation . |
| 4 | These are waters which do not , as a rule , produce big bream , for with so many mouths to share the available food there is only enough to maintain them at a low body weight . |
| 5 | Time enough and soon enough to greet them in the morning 's light when the men would have said their prayers and the womenfolk would have been to Mass and a stranger with a fiddle might be a welcome diversion from the day 's chores . |
| 6 | At a more specific level there were matters like the involvement with the Military College at Shrivenham , where students were military employees and where the College wished the students to handle security classified material in their courses and possibly even to examine them on classified material . |
| 7 | Supposing , however , the defence has to cope with attackers pushing up just far enough to catch them on the turn and stay onside . |
| 8 | This is done to allow them time to come back gradually to a state of full alertness without any sense of shock — but it would be just as effective if I were to snap my fingers or even simply to tell them to ‘ wake up ’ . |
| 9 | In a tract written shortly before the 1715 General Election , Atterbury maintained that " the People " had been " fleec 'd so often " by the heavy taxes imposed by the Whigs to fight their wars , that " they have scarce enough to keep them from Perishing " . |
| 10 | The gutter is supported at frequent intervals on brackets which can be raised or lowered to determine its ‘ fall ’ , and gutters must run to a good fall and should be cleaned at least annually to free them of leaves and mud ; they must not sag between brackets . |
| 11 | But not for the Americans , nor the British who were not bombed heavily enough to prevent them from turning the experience into a basis for a cosy national myth . |
| 12 | They 're chewing up the lawn but Carl there 's nowhere else to put them at the moment . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We recognise that those who live and work in the vicinity of our plants have the right to know about our activities and we are doing our very best to provide them with the information they require . |
| 15 | Er he went over s there was a plane laid on for him and he was ve went over very often to advise them on fortifications on all their concrete fortifications in France . |