Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He greeted her very warmly and blushed in the sweetest way when she gave him a sisterly kiss . |
| 2 | For centuries civilised man thought poetry was the pinnacle he must reach for — ’ He caught himself suddenly and smiled for the first time Blanche had known him to , the embarrassed smile of a passionate devotee who suddenly discovers that everyone around him , whom he thought entranced by his obsession , was in fact sniggering behind his back . |
| 3 | I looked at it afresh and came to the same conclusion . ’ |
| 4 | But my , my view would be that I would er you know investigate this fully and er come forward with a recommendation , but that er my own er thought would be , and I I now take your thoughts , that we should not get ourselves erm launched into a very big , massive erm you know operation of advertising this franchise afresh and going through the whole procedure . |
| 5 | We are exhorted to get all women planning a pregnancy to consume a supplement of 400 µg folic acid or folate daily and to continue through the first trimester . |
| 6 | Write your plans below and evaluate at the next C.P.S. |
| 7 | With a view to aiding the assessment of a patient 's progress there are a few simple guidelines that can be followed ; for cure to be taking place the disease should go from within to without , from organs of greater importance to lesser importance , from above to below and to disappear in the reverse order to their original appearance . |
| 8 | IN MID-SUMMER , contemplating a day on the beach , Truronians will cast an eye skywards and decide on the instant whether to head for the north coast or the south . |
| 9 | Look how he blooded Speed and Batty … he did nt chuck them in and hope for the best . |
| 10 | The easier alternative for video is to record the scene as a two-shot ( page 73 ) , the static nature of which can be relieved by discreetly zooming in and panning between the two speakers from time to time and then zooming back to the two-shot . |
| 11 | ‘ The Germans are formidable but our young players have proved that they can come in and cope with the best , the outstanding example being Alan McLaren 's handling of Italy 's Roberto Baggio , ’ Roxburgh said . |
| 12 | It meant his leg was all skewed in and pushed against the other one . |
| 13 | Without the slightest hesitation , he took two hops to the water , waded in and swam across the deep , still pool . |
| 14 | The semantic theories argue that the description just given is realized in and enforced by the very vocabulary of law , so that it would be a kind of self-contradiction for someone to claim that the law provides right s beyond those established through mechanisms sanctioned by convention . |
| 15 | The 15-acre Herculaneum Dock , two miles from Liverpool city centre , was filled in and reclaimed for the International Garden Festival . |
| 16 | Bartlemas and O'Rourke came in and talked about the first night of Gielgud 's Prospero ( ‘ Doing it again , dear ’ at the National . |
| 17 | That William and Mary Prince and Princesse of Orange bee and bee declared , King and Queen of England France and Ireland and the Dominions there unto belonging to hold the Crowne and Roy all Dignity of the said Kingdom 's and Dominions to them the said Prince and Princesss during their lives and the life of the Survivor of them and that the Sole and full exercise of the Regall Power be only in and executed by the said Prince of Orange in the Names of the said Prince and Princesse during their Joynt lives And after their deceases the said Crowne and Roy all Dignity of the said Kingdoms and Dominions to be to the heires of the body of the said Princesse : And for default of such Issue to the Princesse Anne of Denmarke and the heires of her body . |
| 18 | Both of us went down and rolled off the hard , wet pavement into the gutter , but it was me who cracked the back of his head en route and me who got a boot in the stomach which even my US Navy parka did little to cushion . |
| 19 | The cab came from a Massey-Ferguson 1200 and cost £600 , and a solid steel radiator surround from the same model was turned upside down and fitted to the new tractor . |
| 20 | She hoisted the baby on to her hip and dragging a chair close up to the television set , sat down and stared at the blank screen . |
| 21 | She knelt down and stared at the smaller words below it . |
| 22 | After a while , the bedroom door opened and they heard Mother and the visitor come down and go into the front room of the house . |
| 23 | Now he knelt down and looked at the dead girl curiously . |
| 24 | Remembering a detail with sudden clarity , Charles knelt down and looked at the left-hand side of the front bumper . |
| 25 | Asked in interviews about his parents , Crawford tells the story of his RAF sergeant-pilot father who was shot down and killed during the Second World War , before his birth . |
| 26 | There were brown bears here as recently as the 10th century , and the last wolf was hunted down and killed in the 18th century . |
| 27 | With a smile he put the rifle down and reached for the next in the stack at his side . |
| 28 | Adam put the phone down and went to the front door . |
| 29 | I knelt down and went through the dead man 's clothing . |
| 30 | Subsequently , the floods came down and went over the whole bridge , topping the rails , and it was a tribute to the efficiency of both its design and erection that the bridge withstood this successfully . |