Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He knew her too well to think that she would allow affection to outweigh her sense of right and wrong . |
| 32 | I knew him well enough to spot that . |
| 33 | Already she knew him well enough to realise he would never make threats he was n't prepared to carry out . |
| 34 | Florian broke off , looking astonished , and Maria knew him well enough to realise that his attention had made a rare leap outward . |
| 35 | But Amanda knew him well enough to suspect that he might be bluffing . |
| 36 | She knew him too well to imagine he 'd let her get away easily , even when he learned there was money . |
| 37 | Wycliffe had scarcely spoken since leaving the hall and Scales knew him too well to try to involve him in conversation . |
| 38 | It took her much longer to get to Leominster Gardens , where Bob lived , than she had expected . |
| 39 | This superb American served the Allies on the sea and in the post-war relief organizations till disgust at the treatment of the Poles by the Western Alliance sent him back home to lick his wounds and write an epic book . |
| 40 | ‘ You brought her here just to find out if I still disliked her ? |
| 41 | Wexford grasped it in both his hands , raised it high and brought it down hard to meet the empty air . |
| 42 | And all four of them discovered the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his brand of Transcendental Meditation — and took it seriously enough to fly to India and study at his feet in Rishikesh ( John and George stuck it out for two months , Paul for one and a homesick Ringo for only ten days ) . |
| 43 | This enabled us not only to check the quality of the work but also to help if problems arose and to show the importance we attached to the role of the interviewers . |
| 44 | Pete apparently Pete made it up just to get erm get at her . |
| 45 | Since real action in the world was now denied him , Uncle Mick gave himself over thoroughly to debate . |
| 46 | First Parker put him clear only to see him miscontrol and allow Gunn to save — and then Gunn kept out his close-range diving header . |
| 47 | Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action . |
| 48 | She said it deliberately firmly to hide her hurt . |
| 49 | After a while , two soldiers in khaki ponchos came up the hill and asked us somewhat apologetically to put out the fire . |
| 50 | Theodore Mann , co-founder and producer of Circle-In-The-Square since 1951 , had seen Dustin on stage and wanted him badly enough to have dismissed two directors instead of the actor . |
| 51 | She offered to come down for the weekend to help , and Carolyn wanted her badly enough to hesitate before putting her off . |
| 52 | When it was fully clear of the cave , three of the hunters then simultaneously seized it by head , tail and centre and held it straight enough to feed head-first into an open sack held by the fourth man . |