Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can not have changed much in two hundred years and still , today , the tireless plume of woodsmoke wafts up from the chimney , proving that life goes on in much the same way as it always have done in this particular vicinity . |
| 2 | He can claim , whether truthfully or not , that he had recommended clients to come in at exactly the right times . |
| 3 | Without him we had to struggle along with just the three of us . |
| 4 | Thus , courses , which , in the past , have started in September and finished in the following June , during which all students moved along at exactly the same speed of learning , will become a feature of the past . |
| 5 | When I left twenty minutes later I felt I had come off with rather the worst of the bargain but another of my father 's aphorisms came to mind : shnorrers no choosers . |
| 6 | Misreading the clues , they head off in completely the wrong direction and manage to become the first people ever to get shipwrecked on one of the islands of Derwentwater . |
| 7 | Defending against smashes is even trickier — you have to press up and fire to jump up at exactly the right moment to block the smash , and sometimes the other player will fool you by just tipping a weak shot over your head ! |
| 8 | It was very conventional , even old-fashioned , but its tensions built up in just the right way , and it gripped like a strangler 's hand . |
| 9 | The services carried out by both the All- weather and Inshore lifeboats over the years are well documented and , as usual , Jeff Morris 's book can be recommended to anyone with an interest in the work and history of lifeboats in the area . |
| 10 | The significant feature of privatization has been that the transformation has usually been carried out by broadly the same teams that had worked under nationalization . |
| 11 | Morning winds may be light , but afternoons are usually brisk , with exciting open sea sailing in force 3 to 5 for many days each holiday — let down by only the odd day of paddling ! |
| 12 | At the same time he was turned down by both the Civil Service and the Foreign Office . |
| 13 | On Wednesday they had a quiet morning in the centre until just before lunch when two emergencies came in at virtually the same time . |
| 14 | When the linker is on the needlebed , this needle is facing the machine needles and it casts off in exactly the same way as you do with the latch tool . |
| 15 | Last year 's unstoppable strikeforce of Mark Hateley and Ally McCoist will team up for only the third time this season , Hateley with a ten goal start on his partner . |
| 16 | Apart from a small stain on the edge this came up in almost the bright and shiny condition that it appears in the illustration . |
| 17 | It also masks the fact that Anglo-Saxon ‘ villages ’ probably moved about in roughly the same area from generation to generation . |
| 18 | The feeling swept over me that I had truly left Darlington Hall behind , and I must confess I did feel a slight sense of alarm — a sense aggravated by the feeling that I was perhaps not on the correct road at all , but speeding off in totally the wrong direction into a wilderness . |
| 19 | Should a big enough gap open up at just the right time , then you will be able to stay on port and merely harden up to cross the line . |
| 20 | If we look back upon both the natural and social sciences of the period we shall be struck most vividly with their self-confidence . |
| 21 | The Company is empowered under its articles of Association to borrow up to twice the aggregate amount of the share capital and reserves of the Company and its subsidiaries as indicated by the latest audited accounts , subject to certain adjustments . |
| 22 | From the data on cropping it was seen that grass made up by far the greatest proportion of arable hectares . |
| 23 | All popular kinds of decorative pond fish can survive for several months during the winter without feeding , as their body processes slow down in much the same manner as a tree or shrub in the garden becomes dormant . |
| 24 | You can zoom in and out of the preview , looking at thumbnails of your pages , or zooming in on just the one page . |
| 25 | Noel Blake was kicked out for exactly the same reason — he could nt handle being in a squad . |
| 26 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for sorting out at least the hon. Gentleman 's mathematics with obvious skill and knowledge . |
| 27 | People not not moving out at quite the same rate of knots . |
| 28 | One lucky spin-off from the system is that it reproduces intelligible sound at normal pitch , when the tape is played back at twice the intended speed . |
| 29 | Yet , with very few exceptions , they succeed in getting back to exactly the same stretch of river where they hatched . |
| 30 | The defendant had been convicted under two different statutes of two offences which both arose out of essentially the same facts . |