Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were never enough to go around , especially on the house where I was , where there were two other girls on the works and four girls on the gardens all coming in filthy dirty and wanting a bath . |
| 2 | We had fewer books and , although one unfortunate batch was dominated by Barbara Cartland 's idiotic romances and an informative , though only distantly interesting , tome on breast feeding , there were still enough to keep us occupied . |
| 3 | There was yet more to follow as a further instalment of the Rosenstein collection of memorabilia included a truly splendid photograph of an early assembly of aviation collectible ( C ) . |
| 4 | An extra £3,500 had to be transferred from the leisure services central budget because there was not enough to produce publicity leaflets and posters . |
| 5 | It would n't be their fault that there was n't enough to go round . |
| 6 | I told him they said there was n't enough to go on , but if anything else happened it would all count . ’ |
| 7 | He found there was n't enough to eat on one . |
| 8 | It was apparent from his wife 's continuing rampage that much pent-up animosity against her husband was coming out , and the crash of a glass ornament warned him that there was probably more to come . |
| 9 | He had never been with a man who wanted to take him out at three in morning and stand him up against a wall in a dark street and jerk him off , not because there was nowhere else to go , but for the pleasure of doing it like that ; he had never done it again and again with one body . |
| 10 | For me , privacy was a rare commodity , and I had cut myself off from the subculture which had once sustained me — only to find that there was nowhere else to go . |
| 11 | There was nowhere else to go . |
| 12 | There was nowhere else to go . ’ |
| 13 | There was nowhere else to go , so she knocked on the door . |
| 14 | This was rejected on the grounds that there was nowhere else to put the rescued artifacts , many of which were designed for the house . |
| 15 | The hotel restaurant — there was nowhere else to eat — could serve you with tea , coffee , bread , sardines , lettuce , carrots and potatoes , but nothing else , certainly not a meat dish — there was no fresh meat in Adrar . |
| 16 | Mollie was n't asking a question , more making a statement , knowing there was nowhere else to eat until I settled in my own home . |
| 17 | We stared back ; there was nowhere else to look . |
| 18 | Because , she supposed , there was nowhere else to look . |
| 19 | She felt there was nowhere now to take refuge , nothing left to feed her imagination but images of despair . |
| 20 | But there was scarcely enough to colour the greyness of Christmas Day itself . |
| 21 | There was simply nowhere to put down one 's drink or , eventually , anywhere to sit . |
| 22 | But there was still enough to enchant me . |
| 23 | I could n't believe what was happening and yet there was still more to come . |
| 24 | In a contested election , however , it was impossible to do much with direct patronage , even if such were available , for there was never enough to do more than grease the palms of a handful of venal men , most of whom were to be found in the burgh councils . |
| 25 | All he did , day in day out , was sweat and slog in the fields , and even then there was never enough to eat . |
| 26 | ‘ There was never enough to eat . ’ |
| 27 | Pressure for places in the navy was so great that it could prove a difficult tool for politicians able to supply such appointments , for there was never enough to meet all the demands for it , and the obligement of one could offend other freeholders less fortunate . |
| 28 | There was never anywhere to go . |
| 29 | You know we only imported a small amount but all the same there was always enough to meet demand . |
| 30 | But it was difficult to believe this because there was always enough to eat , and they wore the same nice clothes . |