Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 They did it laughingly , but they did it ; so that cut out forever the grace that says , what we are about to receive , so he only gives thanks when he 's got it down . ’
2 Charlotte turned away and started back up the slope towards the road .
3 Its civilised debates introduced topics largely ignored elsewhere and calmed down even the kind of politician who always seems to be addressing a public meeting .
4 Another rifleman had bartered some of his Red Cross parcel for a loaf of bread ; ‘ The conditions of living and surviving had made us all as cunning as foxes ’ , so this rifleman that night slept with it under his neck , but someone crept up and cut off both the ends .
5 He begged Miriam to hurry back and find out how the old man was faring under his own treatment .
6 He resisted the temptation to turn around and look back up the street to where he knew the turn for Montgomery Street lay .
7 I hope that the verification procedures under the UN non-proliferation treaty will be improved so that inspectors will come here and point out how the United Kingdom Government are breaching that treaty .
8 For the independent pusher , it can be frustrating when you wheel yourself around a likely ‘ circular ’ route , only to discover some steps have not been marked on the map so you have to turn round and come back exactly the same way .
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