Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Need to go wary on the Apricot Sunsets in future , ’ she said as she helped me slowly up the basement steps to the street . |
| 2 | He walked me slowly out to the garden gate — a kindly old man , more interested in his trees and his plans for the palace , his rowing and his cycling than in the ruder demands of his people for democracy and good government . |
| 3 | Then she felt the coverlet being pulled off the bed and João was on top of her and his sweet breath was in her face and his mouth over her mouth ; he was forcing her legs apart until she thought she would split ; he was trying to lift them right up over his shoulders , and at the same time trying to enter where she was impossibly small , cursing at his lack of success and finally grunting and gasping , until she felt a little damp fountain on her belly and he rolled off the bed and pattered quickly from the room . |
| 4 | Derby County needed a win against Crystal Palace to put them right up with those early leaders . |
| 5 | You 'll find them right up close to towns , sometimes . |
| 6 | And Leicester to get the win that will keep them right up amongst the leading clubs . |
| 7 | A thud of chopping — movement between the tree trunks — a labourer was coming towards him , one of the consignment of convicts he had ordered through a merchant in Bideford , he had his machete in his hand , he was not menacing , he held out his spare hand in a strange appeal , lifting his face , which was crossed by deep scars , wounds across his eyes had puckered them right in so that he moved like a blind sleeper , closer and closer — Sir John woke up sweating , surprised to find himself alone , and then remembered : he had been drinking with his cousin Alexander Menzies of Bolfracks , the last bottle must have sent him under . |
| 8 | You could wrench them right off ! ’ |
| 9 | If anyone asked him what had happened on a certain occasion he was n't able to tell them right off because he never put his memories into words . |
| 10 | ‘ I should n't write them right off . ’ |
| 11 | Why do n't you say fuck them right off and they 'll think that you . |
| 12 | Of course , we 'd have pushed them right out again . |
| 13 | The answer came suddenly , a slap in the face that made her wince : because , on the only occasion when Merrill had actually confronted him with her suspicions — had brought them right out into the open — she had n't given him a chance to explain . |
| 14 | It 'll take us forever to strip them right down . |
| 15 | They could n't get back to the bank without treading on shifting , clutching , cloying marsh , which could trap them and draw them right down ; and if they stayed in the car , sooner or later they would go under with it . |
| 16 | If this happens , it is usually better to leave things for that year , and to take them right down after the next flowering . |
| 17 | Well we used to make those rings and put the fins on , rivet them on , and the bombs , the , the , the the rings was erm seamlessly weld on a a welder that you two w wheels which were electrically driven and the power was put through them and , and you overlap the two seams like that , and it , as the wheels went round it 'd weld them straight along , they was about eight inches deep seam weld them right down . |
| 18 | The wind had an icy tang to it : it swirled about them right down to their feet , disturbing any loose leaves it could find ; and for a minute or two its voice was the only sound they heard , until Charlie 's broke into it , saying , ‘ Well , do n't worry , at least about me . |
| 19 | They said well they have them loose , yes , but she said they do n't have them right down there . |
| 20 | Well I , we do mainly , but what we do is , we , we cut them , when they die off , we cut them right down under ground |
| 21 | The first and best example of the ‘ hard-boiled ’ thriller , with private dick Sam Spade chewing off chunks of lousy life in a lousy world , and spitting them right back in your face . |
| 22 | Montgomery too had paused to reorganize his lines of communication , but planned a final assault to dislodge the Afrika Korps and drive them right back into Tunisia in December . |
| 23 | Anybody could have kissed me and I 'd have kissed them right back with interest . |
| 24 | Blackburn 's first win in eight matches , 2–1 over Millwall after being a goal down , kept them in the play-off hunt but a Swindon win at FA Cup finalists Sunderland tomorrow could see them right back in contention . |
| 25 | And although , you know , we can begin to make strides in equal opportunities for women this kind of thing erm knocks them right back . |
| 26 | And three more points takes them right back into the battle for the promotion play-off . |
| 27 | between companies we do n't have to retrain them on on |
| 28 | Putting his hands on her shoulders , he drew them slowly down over the full curves , feeling , weighing , drawing a fingertip across the tightening nipples . |
| 29 | Lucille Walker had n't brought me clear over to Hollywood just to tell me I 'd been played for a sucker . |
| 30 | The problem of the private beds gave rise to a violence of dispute which seemed to me wholly out of proportion to the magnitude of the issue . |