Example sentences of "[adv] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Melody had her face turned up to him eagerly and he remembered other details of Boz 's wedding night party : his meeting with Melody 's mother and the small , shabby tent that was her home . |
| 2 | Jezrael gripped his fingers fiercely and he slid along the padded bench until he was beside her and she wept into the haven of his shoulder . |
| 3 | Claudia 's heart thudded fiercely and she felt Roman 's heart quicken in response . |
| 4 | They were genial enough and we exchanged pleasantries until the leading galleon said , ‘ Do you believe in destiny ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We have not bunks enough and we have only two toilets . |
| 6 | Whilst many of the questions Professor Buckley will address remain to be answered , he suspects he already knows the causes of some of Britain 's marketing problems abroad : ‘ Basically we do not try hard enough , we do not invest enough and we do not choose our markets selectively enough . |
| 7 | ‘ We were not experienced enough and we did not ask for , and were not given , enough help and guidance from NatWest . ’ |
| 8 | The £3.5 million offer tabled by Rovers tops , by £200,000 , the record fee they paid Southampton for England striker Alan Shearer last summer , but Clark is adamant : ‘ It is still not enough and nobody has come remotely near what we want for Roy . ’ |
| 9 | They gave me food with stones and yak dung , but it was still not enough and they put it in a urine container . |
| 10 | You expect that if you set a 10:10 standard on a [ large well-known company ] for a , say a pickle liquor , or something , if you did that they would comply because they 're big enough and they 've got the expertise , and so on . |
| 11 | I know , I know Brian would n't at least three but , and this , and this was n't really big enough and they use two side by side , whenever they were late or away for a weekend I took over and see to the cats feed , they were sweet erm used to come on the porch and meow at me , it 's my dinner time , come on , just get not time yet , used to come to the porch , and tell me , they used to know when I was n't coming home , how do they do it ? |
| 12 | Partridge had got all angry and upset soon too because as he was struggling with Steven a magazine fell out of his trousers on to the towpath of the canal and the other men had picked it up and it had been a spanking magazine so all the other men who were n't laughing and shouting already started teasing partridge ; Partridge started trying to wrestle Steven to the ground but Steven had got free and clouted the other man with the shovel , which was still bloody from hacking the cat to bits , and after that , with the magazine coming apart as the other men grabbed at it and Partridge rolling about dazed on the towpath in the cat 's blood and almost falling into the canal , Dan Ashton had said soberly that enough was enough and they 'd better go and see Mr Smith the supervisor because they just could n't go on like this . |
| 13 | They 're not strong enough and they have n't been trained . ’ |
| 14 | The padded collar is comfortable enough and they look more like a tough shoe than a walking boot — designed , I suspect , to appeal more to women . |
| 15 | Look at a crime closely enough and everything becomes significant . |
| 16 | But after an hour she had sewed enough and she felt a shift in the air . |
| 17 | Jenny reappeared soon enough and she suggested that we nip down the road to a little pâtisserie she knew , which of course we did . |
| 18 | Hidden by her handmaids she is seen to blush , then turns to Actaeon and throws water in his face to blind him , to stop him seeing her naked , but that is not enough and she knows it is not enough , and soon he feels the horns growing on his forehead , dat sparso capiti vivacis cornus cervis , she caused to grow on his head the horns of the long-lived stag , as if the cost of seeing her naked had to be death , first metamorphosis then death . |
| 19 | The Maud Committee thought half a dozen should be enough and it followed that each committee would be concerned with a wider range of matters than the existing committees . |
| 20 | Enough and it takes the pain away , too much and you feel dopey . |
| 21 | " Yes , you 've made that plain enough and it does n't bother me . " |
| 22 | ‘ Let's go back , I think we 've gone far enough and it looks dark and spooky . ’ |
| 23 | You let everything go for weeks and weeks and obviously find just getting a meal tiring enough and you know I do n't want you to do anything that 's too much for you . |
| 24 | ‘ It is not enough and you know it ! ’ |
| 25 | Watch the queues for long enough and you see them emptying their bowls and going back , not twice , but three times . |
| 26 | Then it hits you — your power line is n't long enough and you have n't checked the video and TV ( if they are there at all ) . |
| 27 | If sweet reason and turning a blind eye are not enough and you feel you have to use some form of punishment , do so without excessive anger or physical force . |
| 28 | Yet this ‘ black and white ’ approach is not enough and he goes further : each text , Asheim argues , should be assessed as a whole — to do otherwise would be fair neither to the book nor to the author . |
| 29 | ‘ His father pointed them out to him often enough and he knew that things would drop on him from a great height if he put a foot wrong . ’ |
| 30 | But at least the computer route-finder seemed simple enough and he had no problems in setting it . |