Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , they exploded with a sound so terrifying that it brought all of us below instantly out on to the rain-drenched deck . |
| 2 | There are two main , and related , reasons why lone mothers have become so much worse off financially during the 1980s . |
| 3 | So we 're exceedingly well off really for the size of the club and my trip to Amazon , up the Amazon collecting fish gets nearer and nearer |
| 4 | Andy is filling the single champagne glass at the apex of the pyramid with champagne ; it is overflowing , filling the three glasses beneath it ; they in turn are overflowing , filling the glasses on the level beneath them , which are also full and so spilling over to the level underneath , and so on and so on down almost to the bottom ; Andy is on his eighth magnum . |
| 5 | She had n't been acting when she 'd responded so passionately out there on the dance floor . |
| 6 | Do n't imagine you can walk easily straight up on to the Arête from the bottom of the corrie , as you may get into difficulties near the top unless you 've a head for heights . |
| 7 | And Colin finished up just down here on the pavement and Keith maybe a few yards further down er with very bad injuries . |
| 8 | Flashes of colour exploded in her head behind tightly shut eyelids as the expert stroke of his fingers moved boldly lower to seek and investigate , with utmost sensitivity , the small nub of femininity between the soft golden curls , and then hungrily on down into the moist , secret tightness below … |
| 9 | Some of these planes seem to recede away from the eye into shallow depth , but this sensation is always counteracted by a succeeding passage which will lead the eye forward again up on to the picture plane . |
| 10 | Never at best able to make both ends meet they have become very badly off indeed since the last rise in rents … |