Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just prior to the vote , Guo Fengmin , head of the Chinese side on the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group ( JLG ) , suddenly and publicly raised the separate question of a planned new container terminal for the port of Hong Kong . |
| 2 | In the end I gave in and reluctantly mounted the narrow stairs . |
| 3 | As they moved on , the countess constantly and caustically criticised the small rooms , the narrow corridors , the dirt , the cold , the lack of all civilised amenities . |
| 4 | Thus and more wrote the late much travelled T W Perkins in ‘ The Railway Magazine ’ about the Bishop 's Castle Railway after its closure on 25 April 1935 . |
| 5 | It was not : for , as we have seen , organised labour very soon and consciously became the necessary reciprocal to employing capital and so constituted with it the developed system which had yet to be called Capitalism . |
| 6 | It was Franklin Roosevelt 's extraordinary skill as a communicator that made possible his legendary success ; he campaigned superbly , handled the press deftly and brilliantly exploited the new medium of radio . |
| 7 | The High Mages of the Elves attempted to stop them , but such was the power of the Witch King 's magic that he slowly and inexorably gained the upper hand . |
| 8 | Seldom has the passage of time so swiftly , effectively and comprehensively destroyed the intellectual foundations of the main plank of a party 's defence policy . |
| 9 | Hither and thither rolled the famous car , disgorging Lady D , followed by Sir Bernard , like minor royalty to perform no very clear function other than to open things or attend functions and be recognized . |
| 10 | Centre half David Barnett deservedly and appropriately won the man-of-the-match award . |
| 11 | He switched it off and half filled the hot water-bottle . |
| 12 | Behind the shingle formation Romney Marsh gradually grew up and completely filled the former bay . |
| 13 | I imagine you came here with the intention of doing it up and then realised the enormous extent of the work needed to put it right . ’ |
| 14 | He drove half-way home before the windscreen-wipers packed up and then trudged the last two miles , through blinding snow , with the child tucked into his overcoat , her cold face buried in his shoulder , her small , cold hands round his neck . |
| 15 | Victor Chapman , a Harvard graduate , had been at the Paris Beaux Arts when the war broke out and promptly joined the Foreign Legion as a private . |
| 16 | They reached the summit at 3pm and then started the long abseil descent . |
| 17 | Only when the last bullet had been fired and when Clint Eastwood had matter-of-factly and deftly dropped the six-shooter back into its holster , flicked the cheroot away and walked into the sunset , did the man in the old jacket and cords , legs dangling over the seat in front , get up and shamble slowly up the darkened aisle . |
| 18 | ‘ The fellow who stayed with me went back and so did the other squire . |
| 19 | She had assumed that Harry Martin was behind it all , but who was to say if Luke Calder had n't coldly and calculatedly planned the whole thing ? |
| 20 | LAURA DISCOVERED HER LOVE OF NATURE HERE AND ALWAYS RETAINED THE HAPPIEST MEMORIES OF HER YEARS IN KENT . |
| 21 | He leaned across and quietly told the ancient magician what Mildred had asked for . |
| 22 | We inched our way slowly forward and finally reached the harried , unsmiling agent . |
| 23 | Fearing the worst , he stepped forward and reluctantly pushed the first door wide open , fully expecting to see a sprawled , lifeless body . |
| 24 | He bent forward and gently brushed the cold lips with his own , then sat back on his heels , shivering , toying with the ring that rested , heavy and unfamiliar , like a saddle on the first finger of his right hand . |
| 25 | The trail strayed round and eventually reached the small clearing . |
| 26 | But Daum coolly , cynically and calculatingly named the four foreigners in his squad from the start . |
| 27 | Unlike the single line delta with its articulating leading edges that pivot about the cross-spar joint , the second generation stunters with cross-spars fore and aft introduced the rigid frame.As the spine retained the sail on the neutral datum centreline , the sail pattern was made larger than the actual frame plan in order to obtain the conical camber which is the characteristic of the Rogallo design . |
| 28 | On this occasion the publicity or discussion in the town had had the beneficial effect that the first victim recognised the matter was being taken seriously and so reported the earlier incident . |