Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dartford Tunnel was quiet enough for him to sneak through without loss of time . |
| 2 | Another recurrent crisis , during university years , was the cerebral accident — a subarachnoid haemorrhage unambiguous enough for me to sit down with pen and I paper and put my affairs in order . |
| 3 | It were enough for me to take back to our branch and say " it 's us against them " . " |
| 4 | There is quite enough for us to worry about in our own institutes ; just think of the state of many buildings in the former East Germany . |
| 5 | This is partly because , at least in the cases of Montenegro and Kosovo , large foreign loans were raised for investments in infrastructure and heavy industry ( much of which turned out to be unprofitable ) . |
| 6 | The first is his idea that language is not a thing apart from the rest of life , and related to it only via what goes on in the mind of the language-user . |
| 7 | ‘ Especially with you tearing around like the wronged boyfriend in the last reel of Some Came Running , waving your wretched gun . |
| 8 | Also , the local MP has taken it upon himself to look personally into what goes on in this prison . ’ |
| 9 | Then we had tea together with me sitting up in bed in my dressing-gown . |
| 10 | I 'm right off the side of the bike so it takes much longer for me to get back on it and control the slide . ’ |
| 11 | The old man went with her and stayed there , peering through the dirty panes , scrabbling absently for something to hold on to . |
| 12 | ‘ They were concerned I would do something gruesome or speak critically about what went on in the ward . ’ |
| 13 | She would explain the nature of her interest , so awakening in him a wish to know more about what goes on outside Masailand and also opening his eyes to the fact that the white folk see the Masai as childlike . |
| 14 | We know far more about what goes on in the world , i.e. we have far more reliably formed true beliefs about it , than we do about our own beliefs about what goes on in the world : beliefs about honey , thistles , etc . |
| 15 | The beatings , the escapes , the fear which were still in her came out in her dreams . |
| 16 | McCallen is hoping that the Honda will remain in one piece after tomorrow for it travels on to Donington for the British Championship meeting the next day where it will be ridden by Steve Hislop with McCallen reverting to the slower RC30 Honda . |
| 17 | When I was in Bremen not long ago for what turned out to be a Fluxus family meeting , I felt great affection from and for old friends like Daniel Spoerri and Emmett Williams , but also the younger artists associated with the exhibition were warm and welcoming . |
| 18 | I can manage quite well without anyone poking around in here . ’ |
| 19 | And what do you think about this idea of turning it into like a little piazza there for everyone to sit out on do you like that idea ? |
| 20 | Then feeling for the window-sill that was part way up , he knocked the owl lamp that his Mum had put there for him to take up to his room . |
| 21 | It 'll be a place that will always be there for you to come back to . ’ |
| 22 | erm , okay , but this information is there for you to find out about , the reason why I would say it 's important to find out about those things , well one , you tell me |
| 23 | They do n't wish it to happen , but it becomes an impossibility almost for them to stand up to their rights , and Mr talks about rights and no rights is in abstract and we all know how difficult it is then to stand up as a minority when you 're surrounded by that majority , but I 've had personal representations |
| 24 | There is some professional resistance , in the sense that people who 've done a lot of work on programming get used to certain sorts of languages , and if you make proposals about teaching some new way of dealing with computers , they throw up their hands in horror , and object that this is going to be inefficient , or it 's not going to prepare people adequately for what goes on in industry , or whatever . |
| 25 | Erm , actually on reflection , having seen the bit of disaster that occurred because erm unfortunately Freda did n't get the phone call until early Christmas day morning off her daughter , to say that instead of them coming up to here to see them that something had happened in London , could they go down to her , so she was prepared to do us a half an hour at half past one and then she was going to drive to London ! |
| 26 | When I changed buses there was just time to get the sweets and bananas — the bananas were very good today ; and on the other bus there was a nice driver who said that if I sat near the front he would let me off at the crossing if he was held up in the traffic , instead of my going on to the bus stop and having to walk back ; because of the rain . ’ |
| 27 | Instead of us , you know , instead of it blocking out for our benefit , I reckon it blocked out for their benefit somehow a hell of a lot of insulation , in here |
| 28 | ‘ Or perhaps you would like me to inveigle her out of her self-imposed purdah and come up here instead of you going down to Four Winds . ’ |
| 29 | The scullions ahead of him got down off their stools and waddled away , disappearing in the kitchens ' foggy wastes . |
| 30 | Theatres and concert halls can be beautiful and stirring places , quite apart from what goes on in them . |