Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Habibi 's confidence was restored , yet never was a horse so careful not to bite the hand that fed it ! |
| 2 | I then knit a piece of lace fabric just wide enough to stretch round the base of the cone and long enough to cover it . |
| 3 | Not for the first time Delaney looked into the eyes that were deep , infathomable pools of green , and at the copper-coloured hair falling around the high smooth cheek bones ; at the small upturned nose and a mouth just large enough to hint at the animal sensuality lying dormant beneath the surface . |
| 4 | Surprise fought for supremacy over sheer relief , the final result hardly strong enough to chase away the last vestiges of fear . |
| 5 | In other words , is the is the child more able simply to observe and draw conclusions based on that . |
| 6 | If one takes wines such as these together with the inevitably ill-fated attempts to make a red wine from black grapes grown in a climate barely hospitable enough to ripen a grape , let alone colour it , a wealth of curiously coloured , clouded wines must have constituted the norm , despite a half-hidden glint of pink or red in a few instances . |
| 7 | Despite numerous opportunities , she loved her husband too much ever to betray him . |
| 8 | During the First World War a box of matches cost 1d and a matchbox grip 4d : a price just substantial enough to warrant a ‘ Thank you ’ when given free to a pub or grocer 's store customer , and just substantial enough to make money for a stationer or the many charities which sold them . |
| 9 | He was forty-seven , too old for military service yet young enough to feel that something more was required of him than the life he had hitherto led . |
| 10 | Is this bridge still strong enough to carry us all ? |
| 11 | Inside the reception hall she found a tiny antiquated lift barely large enough to take herself , her suitcase and a bellboy to her fifth-floor room . |
| 12 | And now , sitting legs stretched , on a chair too low comfortably to accommodate his six feet two inches , eyes fixed on that single taper , unflickering in the incense-heavy stillness , he could hear again the tone , taut with self-disgust , in which Berowne had explained why he had given up the law : |
| 13 | Instead , I flushed the toilet and opened the door just wide enough to slip through the gap . |
| 14 | When it had been screened you 'd got to be in there and the malted barley would come out of a big hole just big enough to get a comb-sack through ; and it used to run into a big heap ; and you 'd got to be inside there a-throwing on it back so it did n't bung up the hole . |
| 15 | The division between the sleeping and run sections is fitted at floor level with a hole just large enough to allow the ferrets easy passage but small enough to prevent them dragging food carcasses from the run section into the sleeping quarters . |
| 16 | A small hole just large enough to insert the airline should be drilled into the back of the elbow . |
| 17 | After two hours ' work , I had managed only to hack out a shallow hole hardly large enough to bury a tortoise . |
| 18 | His fit of coughing echoed across the landscape , an early morning salute , as he often put it in his ‘ Jottings ’ , to an old man still courageous enough to face death at the hands of a packet of filter-tips . |
| 19 | They 're soft on baby 's skin yet strong enough to clean up any job . |
| 20 | Peter often tried to describe what Kate looked like as she stood in the doorway , half in , half out , glancing at her watch and swinging an embroidered bag barely large enough to take a packet of cigarettes . |