Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | are much cheaper to fly but simply having more of them will push up costs so it 'll need about twice as many passengers . |
| 2 | Yet each time that third line came round the tune seemed to gather itself up and find new energy from somewhere , and perhaps it did n't fall quite so far each time in the fourth , and Tabitha was captivated despite herself , watching the pretty man play and wondering how he would end it , how he could ever resolve the disagreement between the rush and the ebb , until she realized suddenly that he had , with a quiet , lilting little rill that ran up and then down and flicked its tail and was gone . |
| 3 | The way in which credit granters make this decision will affect not just how that individual uses credit but through its effect on similar individuals in the same circumstances may also affect general patterns of credit use . |
| 4 | Protection , too , thanks to the many thin cracks and cracklets seaming the rock , is plentiful and both pitches will obligingly swallow just about as much gear as you can carry . |
| 5 | ‘ It can carry almost twice as much as my granpa 's old barrow , ’ Charlie told him . |
| 6 | Apart from that erm the scores on the doors forty six postcards were sent out which does n't sound perhaps like very many but is in fact quite a lot of work when you 're having to find people who 's who people 's MPs are for them and so on . |
| 7 | They can calculate not only how much business I 'm doing but exactly how much money they will make on each piece of business . |
| 8 | We shall see more formally why this is the case when we discuss bonds in Chapter 6 , but it is a relationship which is easy to grasp intuitively if we just consider the position of a holder of existing bills . |
| 9 | ‘ We try to make each day that bit different but you can stick up only so many cards or buy so many duvet covers . |
| 10 | And at the moment there is considerable er research effort being directed to try and work out just how much more carbon dioxide the ocean will continue to absorb . |
| 11 | Before embarking upon such a course of action , heads and governors must decide how far down this entrepreneurial road they wish to go , what scale of profits they seek and at what possible cost to their pupils . |
| 12 | It has the storage advantages of a vanity basin , but does not take up nearly as much space . |
| 13 | ‘ It just made me wonder even more why such a destructive hitter has such a modest one day record , with an average of about 27 , ’ said his skipper . |
| 14 | I ca n't stress strongly enough how much positive potential you have between now and mid-May . |
| 15 | But we can not estimate so reliably how many of these will seek university places in 17 or 18 years ' time since this will be affected so much by changeable social and economic factors . |
| 16 | Mu mu my mum says that I 've got to show all receipts at the end of the year and if I have n't got any then she wants it all back , but she 's she can piss off as far that 's concerned ! |
| 17 | The lower total , in 2 Samuel , is still far too high : 1,300,000 men of military age would imply at least five million inhabitants , which , for Palestine , would mean nearly twice as many people to the square mile as in the most thickly populated countries of modern Europe " . |
| 18 | You never know , I might end up there again some time . |
| 19 | Dad would go out very early each morning , without even a cup of tea inside him , to tramp round looking for a job — anything to tide us over . |
| 20 | A survey of welfare spending by all private firms conducted by the Ministry of Labour in 1975 estimated that such payments yielded benefits equivalent to 10–15 per cent of annual earnings , but did not distinguish very clearly how this differs according to size of firm . |
| 21 | And er your parents or your mother or your father would get up very early that morning to light the copper , so that the water would be hot to start boiling , it would probably take , it could take a couple of hours to sort of re really heat a copper full of hot water . |
| 22 | He said I do n't know what the car owes me he said can you come back tomorrow about half past ten ? |
| 23 | If any readers want to share their interest in these models hen please do write as once again this is a little-known subject ; perhaps these models are just too big for the average collector to handle ? |
| 24 | Ca n't get about quite as much . |
| 25 | I find that the full needle welt is kinder to the mature figure ( like mine ) when it is to be followed by a tuck stitch fabric as it does not pull in so quite much as the 2x1 rib . |
| 26 | Fortunately he does n't turn up very often these days . |
| 27 | I 'd help out financially as much as I could . |
| 28 | Now they will find out just how much — through their pockets . |
| 29 | ‘ Maybe we 'd better find out just how much of a romantic you are , Dr Blake . ’ |
| 30 | They guarded their independence fiercely and neither Chris nor I dared ask too often how much progress was being made . |