Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And he went on gazing out of the window , drawing on it with his finger until Mrs Hollins came out and rapped on the glass . |
| 2 | And he goes on gazing out of the window . |
| 3 | If he heard anything he would not dream of doing anything about it but would go on gazing indifferently over the heads of his sheep . |
| 4 | He rarely veers away from the subject of relationships ( ‘ Go Out And Get 'Em Boy ! ’ , |
| 5 | That the latter seems to be chosen overwhelmingly testifies not to the existence of coercion , but to careful selection procedures for placing persons in corporate positions coupled with successful methods of persuading them that their interests and the corporation 's interests happily coincide — or at least , that that is the most sensible , pragmatic way of looking at it . |
| 6 | Diniz also had stayed , and had found his way out into the yard , and the broken pillars of the loggia , where he had found somewhere to sit out of the wind . |
| 7 | The man nodded and smiled all over again — rather encouragingly , this time — and then , smiling in a somewhat more valedictory sort of way , edged slowly back out through the door . |
| 8 | Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time . |
| 9 | Bakker also argued that the brontosaur footprints found in the 1930s in the Cretaceous Texas limestone showed left and right footprints close to the trackway centreline , hinting that they walked upright . |
| 10 | ‘ He very rarely goes out in the evenings . ’ |
| 11 | Slowly struggling up from the depths of deep unconsciousness , Laura flicked open her eyelids , only to shut them firmly again as she winced at the brilliant sunshine flooding in through the windows of the bedroom . |
| 12 | Do you remember when as a child you would stand transfixed , gazing up at the grandfather clock , with your little heart beating faster and faster as the minute hand slowly crept up to the hour when suddenly , with magical ringing chimes it burst into life . |
| 13 | Now empty , decay and neglect are slowly eating away at the building 's fabric . |
| 14 | If you want to get in close enough to see the detail of his beautiful body markings , you wo n't be able to include much of his neck which will be mostly sticking out through the top of the frame . |
| 15 | On Aug. 8 the British hostage John McCarthy was released in Beirut ; he was swiftly transported to the Syrian capital , Damascus , and thence flown back to the United Kingdom . |
| 16 | The material being drilled is effectively broken up by the drill bit , and the rotary action of the drill bit is primarily to remove debris from the hole . |
| 17 | Right sit up on the chair and we 'll read the story of the jumble sale . |
| 18 | Activists are illegally dismissed , strikes are forcibly broken up by the army or police and many unionists have been killed . |
| 19 | It may paper over things and succeed in buying time , but it can not overcome the class-based conflicts that will eventually bubble up to the surface . |
| 20 | The control panel is discreetly tucked away on the front and is totally invisible when the spa is in use . |
| 21 | A small friendly old pub pleasantly furnished and discreetly tucked away behind The Scotsman office . |
| 22 | That little faith went on to go right round the world and it 's here today . |
| 23 | Market expectations are for little change upwards in the RPI from the latest figure of 7.3 per cent . |
| 24 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 25 | We eventually got away from the station and camped two hours later near a marsh , where we shot some duck for dinner , and two lily-trotters for our collection . |
| 26 | I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager . |
| 27 | As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England . |
| 28 | More and more armies were becoming reliable though still very cumbersome machines , mechanisms which could be relied on to perform competently on the battlefield the evolutions in which they had been trained , and to stand enemy fire without flinching . |
| 29 | The Cult of Pleasure is revealed as being secretly given over to the worship of Slaanesh . |
| 30 | The other end of the rainbow was presumably curled up inside the cloud . |