Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect you have to know someone quite well to say things like that , ’ said Catriona solemnly . |
| 2 | ‘ You usually have to know someone quite well to hate them , ’ |
| 3 | It was not until they had rounded a bend in the road , and the echoes of Master Thomas 's good wishes had long since died away , that Isabel managed to pull herself together enough to recall her resolution to put fitzAlan at a safe distance — and keep him there . |
| 4 | It 's just that I have arranged to meet him tonight sometime to sort out a few things for me would of made a lot more sense if he 'd been here ! |
| 5 | She was now only a step away from her target , so she was n't far from getting to know him well enough to question him about his allegiance — just as long as she could keep his escort sweet , which would probably mean more bondage if that was the only way he could get his nuts off . |
| 6 | He should be encouraged and allowed to write it slowly enough to write it correctly . |
| 7 | Well , you ought to know it well enough to write five or six lines about it , which is all you need for a book . |
| 8 | I find the easiest way is not to attempt to free the yarn from the sinker plate completely , but to free it just enough to enable you to push the carriage on past the weaving yarn . |
| 9 | and you have to press them down anyway to make them all stick . |
| 10 | Every attempt will be made to open up dialogue with the kidnappers and to stall them long enough to trace where your wife and daughter are being held . |
| 11 | The sonic pulse systems emitted by toothed whales are directional and most species seem to use them not only to detect food but also to make fine distinctions on the basis of the echoes . |
| 12 | The women who come to refuges do so because marriage is unbearable and they have no resources to give them anywhere else to run to . |
| 13 | They used to let him up here to practise from time to time . ’ |
| 14 | His only complaint is that the technique is so simple that other researchers will be able to duplicate it quickly enough to keep up with his group . |
| 15 | And when the rain stops , the beavers may have to build them up again to prevent the level of the lake from falling so low that the entrance to the lodge is exposed . |
| 16 | What I suspect is that he was inspecting the binding and moved the candle to study it more closely to see if there was a gap between the cover and its backing : underneath the candle flame the writing must have appeared . ’ |
| 17 | It is vital that our children have the best possible education to allow them not only to have the best possible standard of life and maximise their opportunities , but for the benefit of Britain , so that we can compete in the world in trade and industry . |
| 18 | Erm s that 's my general s there 's no doubt that there are a great deal of activities there as always of course when one is spending a lot of new money quite rapidly , one has to monitor it very carefully to make sure that it 's being effectively spent , and I 'm sure the director and this committee will continue to do that . |
| 19 | It 's sometimes possible to approach them closely enough to stick a device like an anemometer , or wind speed gauge , into the gas jet , and by doing this , supersonic speeds have been recorded . |
| 20 | Our technical staff will be pleased to advise you how best to do this if you absolutely have to , but the best management is of course provided by LIFESPAN , which means limiting yourself to just one process for your live data . |
| 21 | The one that has n't been in fact to employ somebody particularly perhaps to go out the market theatre but this particular mark in time it 's been very difficult for a theatre to actually find twenty thousand this financial year in fact we had to find seventy thousand pound cuts , that was a very difficult exercise so the answer to your question is we accept that recommendation and as soon as the finance is available we intend to employ somebody to take on that task . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , sir , I would , and before you dismiss that story , I 'd like to take you out there to hear it for yourself . ’ |
| 23 | But no , there were n't any cafés here , only kiosks to buy drinks and snacks , and you had to prop yourself up somewhere to nosh them . |
| 24 | Also , I 'd like to tell everyone out there to stop making fun of the Spectrum . |
| 25 | But because both CSPs and more general phonological variables are variety-specific , it is difficult to distinguish them clearly enough to apply the taxonomy more generally . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , the company is bragging that it 's having trouble dumbing down the Alpha chip to make it slow enough to sell against the 80486 . |