Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diniz also had stayed , and had found his way out into the yard , and the broken pillars of the loggia , where he had found somewhere to sit out of the wind . |
| 2 | By Saturday they had both recovered sufficiently to fall in with the rest of the company for pay parade , waiting in a long queue to collect five shillings each from the paymaster . |
| 3 | Seals have almost spherical lenses and can not flatten them enough to see far through the air . |
| 4 | He found it and obviously felt at ease enough to go ahead with the appointment , ’ said Mr King . |
| 5 | Most of them would not go on , but three were brave enough to go down into the valley . |
| 6 | Shop manager , Jim Willcock 's been allowed home from hospital , but he 's not well enough to go back to the co-op in Cam . |
| 7 | ‘ Now they are working hard to get me fit enough to go back on the list — and they 're the only ones giving me hope , ’ says Anthony . |
| 8 | I wanted only to go down to the summer-house and watch the leaves falling until night fell with them . |
| 9 | If this is the case the end of the U-wire is broad enough to sit comfortably in the palm of the hand . |
| 10 | In a fierce , raw and , at times , downright nasty battle , Barnes led his besieged troops to glory only to hit out in a variety of directions afterwards . |
| 11 | The problem is to develop a device which as well as demonstrating a high degree of efficiency in converting wave energy into electricity , is also robust enough to stand up to the buffeting and corrosion of the sea . |
| 12 | He prophesied that there was no man or woman big enough to stand forever in the way of the Labour Party achieving their aims . |
| 13 | And for those determined enough to stand out from the crowd by virtue of understatement , that may well be enough . |
| 14 | In the end she made the decision to combine Episodes Three and Four together , losing one whole episode entirely to tighten up on the drama . |
| 15 | She glimpsed again that girlish figure momentarily outlined against the walls of the abbey only to slip away like a wraith and be lost among the shadows of the beach . |
| 16 | She swam in what she hoped was the direction of the stairs , only to come up against a wall . |
| 17 | In workplace after workplace we find exploited workers , frightened workers , vulnerable workers , but little chance of recognition no hope of check-off and no one brave enough to come forward as a steward . |
| 18 | But none of them had been interested enough to come up with an offer . |
| 19 | Nothing is more infuriating than reading about something that appeals to you , only to find out at the end that you are not eligible . |
| 20 | All you need for each one is a piece of knitting beginning with a hem at the wrist , wide enough to go round the hand and long enough to reach easily to the base of the fingers . |
| 21 | ‘ Find a stick long enough to reach up to the cab , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Waves burst over the cockpit into the saloon only to pour out through the manhole each time the bridge-deck broke free for a moment . |
| 23 | I put forward the idea to Mme Bluot that , rather than sit either side of a table , reminding Didier of school and his failure to keep up , he and I would do better to talk down by the river , in the park , even in the Café du Coin . |
| 24 | There was a relationship between Jean Simmons ( then married to Stewart Granger ) and Burton which was so close that he continued embracing her , publicly , after the stroke of midnight one New Year 's Eve , only to look up to a slap in the face from Sybil , who instantly left the party — for New York . |
| 25 | Again I had to resort to cutting down her weight , so that she 'd be hungry enough to focus more on the food . |
| 26 | My own guess , in the latter case , is that sheer ecstasy came with the discovery that it was possible not only to walk out of a marriage , but to do so and flourish , and that the rest of her life was devoted to recapturing this outrageous , outcast joy . |
| 27 | Just at that moment when everyone was crossing their fingers on her behalf , so she looked up and told Jim that she felt she would do better to play out at an angle . |
| 28 | It should be small enough to be an effective policy , or decision-making group , but large enough to function effectively as a forum where the views and objectives of significant participants can be acknowledged . |
| 29 | This is near to 1.5mm , and it is soft enough to wrap tightly around the dowel , and accepts soft soldering for a neat fix . |
| 30 | ‘ Look , ’ Forester said urgently , and Carson could imagine his knuckles going white as he gripped the payphone receiver hard in an attempt to get his point across , ‘ my chance at having a kid 's been ruined , and the police and the government have got their heads together to cover up for the killer . ’ |