Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They drove slowly down a narrow asphalt drive between the southern wall of the church and the railing bordering the canal , but still there was no sign of life . |
| 2 | Over in Ireland , BOB DYLAN got his collar felt last week when a hotel security guard accosted him as he crept stealthily down a little-used fire escape . |
| 3 | Built in 1821 as one of 17 semaphore towers , it was equipped with a time-ball in 1854 which drops daily at 1pm down a 15 ft-mast on the roof . |
| 4 | The deeper down a tunnel goes the more dangerous it is and the more likely it is to be inhabited by some terrible monster . |
| 5 | Now the school bus , full of disappointed kids , wends it 's way twice daily down a country lane lined with equally disappointed farmers who stare wistfully into the distance , recalling the heady days of four-legged Formula 1 racing ! |
| 6 | I REMEMBER once seeing a small girl remove a tin of soup from halfway down a display stack in a supermarket . |
| 7 | They should be all over the place — especially where least expected — halfway down a leg , on a collar , cuff or elbow for instance . |
| 8 | Russell Telford , 29 , stayed halfway down a pit shaft for nine hours after threatening a lift operator at Markham Main colliery , South Yorkshire . |
| 9 | She did n't go so far as to give me her telephone number , but I prudently copied it from the instrument at a point during the interview when she was distracted : when one of Brenda 's children had somehow slipped into the room to find a drum stacked halfway down a pile of similar toys . |
| 10 | ‘ How did the mice come to be halfway down a cliff in the first place ? ’ he had asked her . |
| 11 | Her thoughts taking flight , Luce found they had stopped halfway down a bare stone corridor . |
| 12 | Who could say if Margaret was not better off a young widow , able yet to make a humbler and happier match ? |
| 13 | But Baldersdale does have one extra visual blessing rarely seen in the Dales — water , Hury Reservoir was built a century or so ago and it stretches sinuously up a major portion of the valley . |
| 14 | Four Australians , for example , above a road to Three Spurs and halfway Up a steep hillside , once knocked out most of the men in the first of two trucks passing below the patrol . |
| 15 | Another movement flickered , and halfway up a dune something seemed to vanish — she saw , clearly , the sand slide and some bent Starr grass spring back . |
| 16 | A corn bunting was singing halfway up a pylon , short bursts of jangling notes . |
| 17 | The caves of Postojna and Škocjan are notable tourist attractions , and there is even a castle , Predjamski Grad , built into the mouth of a cave halfway up a sheer limestone cliff , to which access can be gained by way of a labyrinth of underground passages . |
| 18 | Cobalt and the white-haired woman were halfway up a flight of stairs . |
| 19 | When they had collected the papers from a shop on the wharf Tony took him to The Brigantine , a pub halfway up a steep , cobbled street . |
| 20 | I was only back a couple of days and it started again . |
| 21 | I do n't mind that so much though , 'cos they say we are paying a lot less back a month than other way . |
| 22 | If Balliol was already down a back stair , he could mingle with this crowd of panic-stricken servants and nowise stand out , in his shirt and breeches , since others were in approximately the same state . |
| 23 | Mait limped painfully down a connecting gallery , desperately clinging on to the enhancer , which was getting heavier with every passing moment . |
| 24 | When a series of such images , running vertically down a strip of film , is projected at 24 frames a second ( fps ) in the cinema , or 25 fps on ( British ) TV , an illusion of movement is created because of a retinal property known as ‘ persistence of vision ’ , which in normal life enables us to perceive the world as a continuous flow , not an infinite series of separate moments . |
| 25 | The walk began by following a track which climbed steeply up a narrow , twisting valley . |
| 26 | Or , or just , or just up a bit ? |
| 27 | However , the most telling condemnation came from General Sir Garnet Wolseley , the Adjutant-General and the Commandant of Dover Castle , who argued that a tunnel would ‘ open up a route to the invader into England ’ . |
| 28 | Gorbachev declared that 1990 " could become a genuine turning point in the effort to limit and reduce arms " and that it would " open up a period of genuine [ US-Soviet ] co-operation [ aimed at building ] a world ruling out subversive action , pressure , interference and armed invasions " . |
| 29 | Most countries ( including Germany and Britain ) broadly back a French model that resembles the façade of a Greek temple . |
| 30 | The Hotel Pinar is just back a bit from the beach , with its own pool and an à la carte restaurant set on a roof terrace overlooking the wooded landscape towards the sea . |