Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went on gazing into the flames and she knew his thoughts were too far away for her words to reach him . |
| 2 | Bradford slowly got into the game and nearly took the lead when Mark Prudhoe could only parry a piledriver from Mike Duxbury , then punched the ball away from the onrushing Sean McCarthy . |
| 3 | Bradford slowly got into the game and nearly took the lead when Mark Prudhoe could only parry a piledriver from Mike Duxbury , then punched the ball away from the onrushing Sean McCarthy . |
| 4 | She mostly lived in the country and she was rich . |
| 5 | Jack was very much in the groove , rarely deviating from the fairways and the centre of the green , but was a mere one shot under par , while Miguel was one shot better . |
| 6 | The most economically prosperous parts of the UK at the present time are widely regarded as the towns and cities located on a broad axis extending from Cambridgeshire to Dorset and Avon . |
| 7 | Again moving from a reach towards a rung the boat effectively turns underneath the rig and the sail stays at that same angle . |
| 8 | No — she was presumably seeing to the food and Rupert did n't look the kind of man who would be good at arranging flowers . |
| 9 | Self 's victory was bitterly resented by the engineers and , on his return , Pask tried ( unsuccessfully ) to overturn it . |
| 10 | They said they had not been properly consulted about the venue and formed a rival organisation , the Professional Chess Association , to manage the championship . |
| 11 | I 'd rather stay in the Brotherhood and try to persuade them to adopt the national agreements . ’ |
| 12 | They are mostly limited to the accident and emergency department , the coronary care unit , and the intensive care unit ; results from general wards are depressingly poor . |
| 13 | Detectives say the young woman was left badly shaken after the assault and have warned that the incident might have become more serious if it had gone on any longer . |
| 14 | Both of the men were quite badly shaken by the incident and understandably do n't want their names to be released . ’ |
| 15 | The duty arises from the real concern that management may benefit from an opportunity which properly belongs to the company and its shareholders . |
| 16 | I eventually got off the motorway and decided to drive straight to the hospital to see Toby , and paused only to buy him some fruit and a bottle of his favourite Bollinger . |
| 17 | Such a system was effectively harnessed by the energy and skill of Thomas Cromwell ; but deprived of his control after 1540 it became corrupt , inefficient , and unpopular . |
| 18 | A peculiar head slowly rose from the hole and peered into the room with patient animal scrutiny . |
| 19 | Er right walking on the beach and he a genie came out when he rubbed it and he goes oh no way man . |
| 20 | There were but six people on board , all of whom were killed and although the event was duly reported in the press and other media as one might expect , the world proceeded with its normal business and within a few days the matter had receded into the background . |
| 21 | It was alleged that Khashoggi , who had been extradited from Switzerland in April 1989 , had purchased four Manhattan properties secretly owned by the Marcoses and had backdated the sale documents to evade a New York court order which had frozen the assets of the former dictator and his wife . |
| 22 | Harry walked on , his face like thunder , his fists still clenched , his self-esteem badly bruised from the catcalls and laughter of the village . |
| 23 | Peter Morgan had no complaints , however , and went on to work in the hotels and restaurants of the Lyons empire . |
| 24 | I carried on knocking on the door and begging to be let in . |
| 25 | Erm you had a statement of Barbara 's , if it was in there , it was planned so that you crew can work harder erm although you filled in the bonus question well , the there was a tend dangerous tendency for you be sucked in to go into the bonus and I think you did well to say yeah well we 'd better walk along to that so you held out which was nice because if I had if you had n't tackled that you might have been shown the door once you 'd gone through that . |
| 26 | I had a very good man in to see to the heating and lighting , and the whole conversion was done professionally . |
| 27 | The tent seemed eerily dark , so I gingerly drawled towards the door and unzipped it slightly . |
| 28 | The rest of the interior had been very much altered over the years and little original work of consequence remained visible . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , some research-orientated academics feel strongly enough to go against the grain and form a sort of elitist under ground for their best students . |
| 30 | All you need for each one is a piece of knitting beginning with a hem at the wrist , wide enough to go round the hand and long enough to reach easily to the base of the fingers . |