Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv prt] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The kitten lived to be nine , so came out of the whole business best , I suppose . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But despite the handicap Essex made a terrific fight of it and only went down off the penultimate ball . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This duly came about with the Environmental Protection Act 1990 ( EPA ) . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And yesterday the International Cricket Council astonishingly copped out of the whole issue . |
| 15 | There was an hour of cleaning and a change of crew before we finally lifted off for the short leg down to Abu Dhabi . |
| 16 | She might have sat all afternoon , nibbling and stuporous , exhausted but not sleepy ; but the glazier finally came down from the upper floor , cheerfully announcing that all was now right and tight and he would be on his way . |
| 17 | The determined practical side of my nature soon took over from the lazy brooding one . |
| 18 | And can the virtue that thus went out of the spiritual reality called England ever be restored ? |
| 19 | I just dreamed out of the blue that she had died , and then she did die . |
| 20 | He had sounded immensely sad as he spoke , and I wondered if the girl had meant more to him than being merely a casual friend , but I did not like to ask and Maggovertski was clearly disinclined to explain more , so I just stared down at the aerial chart , and I suddenly noticed , in an otherwise empty space beneath an intersection of two air corridors , the tiny island of Murder Cay . |
| 21 | Amongst other escapes , a common criminal , Wesley Scroggs who is supposed to have just slung a rope over the battlements to get away and another prisoner who just ran out of the main door into the street . |
| 22 | Sir John groaned as he eased his bulk up and sorrowfully waddled down to the aroma-filled kitchen . |
| 23 | Chewing on her lip in thought , she finally set off towards the ten-gallon drums , reasoning that she might as well try to find out as much as possible while she was here , and run like hell when the time came . |
| 24 | Gilbert finally stood back from the portable machine on the floor . |
| 25 | Now in his sixties , he still rode out with the Black and Tans , as wild and fearless as ever . |
| 26 | I said he had various slightly eccentric habits and tastes , but that if you ignored them you quickly got through to the real Oliver . |
| 27 | In Budapest , they still strolled around for the sheer pleasure of it . |
| 28 | The loss of Acre in 1291 had a symbolic significance for all the nobilities of western Europe , but a sense of unfulfilled obligation still lingered on in the testamentary dispositions of Gascon nobles . |
| 29 | People and cars always came in through the big double gates . |
| 30 | Now he hardly glanced up at the dressing-gowned figure standing at the door . |