Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt such a clown , standing before them with that vulgar object between her open legs , but she slowly sank down towards the disgusting dildo and manipulated her thighs until the blunt tip was nudging at the portals of her reluctant orifice . |
| 2 | Bypassing the entrance to the huge living-room , which looked dim and shadowy in the faint glow from the circular night-lights sunk into the wooden-slat ceiling , she followed the passageway until she came to another flight of steps , which obviously led down to the lowest level of the house . |
| 3 | An hour later she was still happily chatting to the woman , finding out about the terrible Harry who had ‘ torn the heart ’ right out of her daughter and gone off with a woman from Cork , which naturally led on to the dreadful and often incomprehensible ways of men and the stupid way women always put up with it . |
| 4 | Tory asked suddenly , pointing down to a strand of granite pebbles by which a group of bright blooms apparently sprouted out of the shallow water . |
| 5 | Now , obviously I 'm not going to talk about profits from the T V division just now , because Thames only came in at the half year , and we 're not including any profits from B Sky B in the half year , but it 's likely that we 'll take some de-loan stock interest in at the year end . |
| 6 | Of all the Soviet nationalities , the Baltic nations looked the most likely to establish ( or as they saw it , resume ) their independent statehood in the 1990s ; their opportunity to do so came soon after the attempted coup when ( in September 1991 ) the USSR Council of State formally approved their independent status and they were admitted into the United Nations and other international organisations . |
| 7 | The kitten lived to be nine , so came out of the whole business best , I suppose . |
| 8 | This was when the need to live together came not from the older generation , but from the child 's own family . |
| 9 | There were fewer beggars under the arcades , perhaps scared away by the patrolling police , and by the awe-inspiring Civil Guards in their black-lacquered headgear and solemnly swinging capes . |
| 10 | In 1944 , Williams published an expanded version of his thesis under the title ‘ Capitalism and Slavery ’ , and in doing so broke away from the imperial tradition of historiography on the subject of the abolition of slavery . |
| 11 | The smoke and steam was being sucked from the wreck by the storm wind anyway , and as it cleared Duvall suddenly shrank back from the shattered car window . |
| 12 | But despite the handicap Essex made a terrific fight of it and only went down off the penultimate ball . |
| 13 | Paradoxically , the more the middle class increased and flourished , diverting resources towards its own housing , offices , the department stores which were so characteristic a development of the era , and its prestige buildings , the less went relatively to the working-class quarters , except in the most general form of social expenditure streets , sanitation , lighting and public utilities . |
| 14 | As he rounded the leeward mark for the first time , Pat Marshall in 9th place found himself being covered by Simon Allen and so went off on the opposite tack to get clear of the dirty wind , followed by Chris Eyre . |
| 15 | It was looking just like a classic boring , musty , fusty Labour party Conference like all the others , and then it suddenly took off with the big OMOV debate and Smith 's cliffhanging win ’ . |
| 16 | So , as the other person already occupied part of the left hand bench , he quite naturally went over to the right hand bench and promptly sat down . |
| 17 | Just over half of those who retired prematurely did so at the same time as their redundancy . |
| 18 | Any particular location only appeared once in the 48 stimuli , however , stimuli consisted of 24 pairs where the two films in any pair showed an identical manoeuvre in similar traffic conditions although not at the same location . |
| 19 | Her lovely fingers merely hovered momentarily over the sugar-coated biscuits arranged on a china plate with tiny pink flowers and a fluted edge . |
| 20 | And this ‘ vague altruism ’ apparently permeated up to the highest levels in government : for example , Neville Chamberlain , who had been a leading figure in the pre-war National Government 's denial of the problem of child malnutrition , was so shocked by the stories of the children 's condition that he commented to his sister , ‘ I never knew that such conditions existed , and I feel ashamed of having been so ignorant of my neighbours . |
| 21 | The third area would codify existing intergovernmental co-operation on drugs , crime , political asylum and immigration policy — hitherto conducted informally in the so-called Trevi group [ see pp. 37208 ; 37535 ] . |
| 22 | For a period of the late 16th century it appears to have come into the possession of the Earls of Leicester but eventually came back into the full possession of Trinity College , which remained lord of the manor until quite recent times . |
| 23 | ‘ The Indians who initally came here in the Sixties had skills and capital which allowed them to move into small businesses , ’ said Dr Owen , research fellow at the Centre for Ethnic Relations at Warwick University . |
| 24 | This duly came about with the Environmental Protection Act 1990 ( EPA ) . |
| 25 | Well he supposed to give up smoking , it had caused clotting in one of his legs and then it just whipped over to the other one , he 's had to have it cut off |
| 26 | The irony that Charlton finally got back to the First Division in 1986 , the year their exile from The Valley began , is n't lost on Ufton . |
| 27 | And the anointed heir of the British utilitarian tradition , James Mill 's son , John Stuart , soon moved away from the robust democratic faith of his early mentors . |
| 28 | Mr. F.J. Norris , the Head of Modern Languages , had first come to the School , on teaching practice , in 1933 , and returned in January 1934 as Form Master of Junior A. He soon moved up into the Senior School . |
| 29 | And yesterday the International Cricket Council astonishingly copped out of the whole issue . |
| 30 | There was an hour of cleaning and a change of crew before we finally lifted off for the short leg down to Abu Dhabi . |