Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They urged the EC to extend the generalized system of preferences ( GSP ) to a range of products from the region , and thereby effectively to allow them duty-free entry to the European market . |
| 2 | He should be encouraged and allowed to write it slowly enough to write it correctly . |
| 3 | He made one as if he should try and comfort her , but turned away , walked upstage and on the balcony with his back to the audience , raised his arms widely only to drop them helplessly . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Clare walked down slowly to meet her . |
| 6 | Always explain what you are doing , and if they can understand you , ask if it 's all right to do it . |
| 7 | ‘ They 're all right to take me to the pictures , ’ she said . |
| 8 | ‘ And it 's all right to visit him now ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ All right to let him come up ? ’ |
| 10 | To make sure they were all right to eat them |
| 11 | It was not a bad wound , but entirely enough to make me land badly and wrench my ankle . |
| 12 | because she 's not gon na be there long enough to do it . |
| 13 | They were the Test Match addicts , very small babies , icecream van drivers or , as in our house , parents with toddlers who WO N'T stay put long enough to let them catch breath , let alone get a tan ! |
| 14 | Long enough to let me do what I need to do in Lothian . |
| 15 | Near one of these , a guardian-baboon squatted , on a leash long enough to enable it to run after any would-be shoplifter and seize his thigh in its jaws . |
| 16 | Would he reappear perhaps like Edwin Drood himself might have done if Mr Dickens had been spared long enough to conclude it ? |
| 17 | Joanne ca n't sit still long enough to feed her , but I love it . |
| 18 | The real mystery about his story is not why two wives refused to make love to him , but how he stopped talking about himself long enough to invite them to bed in the first place . |
| 19 | The sergeant hesitated long enough to decide he would be wasting his time by further argument . |
| 20 | ‘ I wo n't say no for myself , but the old fellow wo n't stay awake long enough to drink it , ’ said Mary . |
| 21 | My chances of getting my hands on it long enough to give it the once-over were minimal , and I did n't fancy trying to steal it off Harley . |
| 22 | But we are given such a huge sweep from birth to incipient death that the movie never draws breath long enough to give us any depth or conflict . |
| 23 | But my great joy is that my parents both lived long enough to see me established on television . |
| 24 | Surveying the results of her handiwork , she stayed only long enough to see him scrabble for the safety of the bank . |
| 25 | ‘ He 'd been waiting long enough to see it . ’ |
| 26 | I do n't think I 'd live long enough to see it mature . |
| 27 | If he does , he should ask the helper simply to make sure that the cars stop for long enough to allow him to cross : the helper should not take the patient 's arm and hurry him across . |
| 28 | I believe he overcame his aversion for — for anything — stronger long enough to beget me . |
| 29 | The trouble is we never stop long enough to put them to good use . |
| 30 | Wearing an apron , with her sleeves rolled up and her hair tucked under a duster , Rosie stopped polishing the brasswork on the beer-pumps long enough to throw her a cheerful smile . |