Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel down and thought they were going to come back again to finish me off . ’ |
| 2 | The current Atlantic airfares price war ( traditional at this time of year planes are at their emptiest ) is not going to last long enough to offer £99 flights in the busy summer months , but prices will stay keen . |
| 3 | ‘ There is n't much point ; you 're not going to live long enough to have to introduce me at parties . ’ |
| 4 | A combination of ‘ inconsistent supply and inadequate demand ’ meant they simply were n't shifting produce quickly enough to generate a big enough profit . |
| 5 | Hoomey , in the next desk , was yawning , having sat up late to watch the horror film , and had a comic open on his desk which he was reading whenever his eyes happened to be open . |
| 6 | One of the problems that the college told me about is that school children are leaving school with more computer literacy than the university teachers , so university teachers are having to run hard simply to keep up with the people they are teaching . |
| 7 | The breed probably paid the penalty of being too lightweight and failing to fatten well enough to meet farmers ’ demands for beef from their dairy herds . |
| 8 | The US environmentalists , in a critical report , had accused Guerreiro of failing to act quickly enough to demarcate the boundaries of a proposed reservation for the Yanomami Indians although he had been ordered to do so by the government in mid-April . |
| 9 | Having waited long enough to see if they were needed , the two girls went up to Moran and kissed him on the lips as they did every night . |
| 10 | Nick Champion of Russell , Baldwin and Bright Markets , who run it on the four Tuesdays prior to Christmas and sell several tons a year , says dealers are having to travel far afield to collect mistletoe to sell at Tenbury . |
| 11 | While in the lavatory he heard footsteps , panicked and poured the acid into a dryer , intending to come back later to wash it out . |
| 12 | Taken together , however , these figures mean no more and no less than services managing to expand rapidly enough to maintain their overall world share whereas manufacturing steadily dropped way behind in this race . |
| 13 | If nursing already recruits 25% of leavers with between 5 " O " levels and 2 A levels , this is easier said than done , particularly when one considers that other employment agencies are also preparing to compete more aggressively to obtain their share from the pool . |
| 14 | Many determined publishers and printers from the USA , Germany , Italy and France are taking a keen interest in this enigmatic country and in the limitless market , trying to decide how best to break into this Klondike . |
| 15 | He could hear her becoming still next to him , trying to decide how best to attack , and he grinned in readiness . |
| 16 | He broke off and Julia knew that he was trying to decide how far to let his honesty take him . |
| 17 | A thick weekend , McLeish decided , trying to think how best to establish what Yeo 's relationship had been with the dead girl . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm not planning to stay long enough to find out — have you see the rain ? |