Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [noun] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 She scrambled down the tree as fast as she could .
2 Leaving this area of the house behind her , she ran down the passage as far as the open pantry door .
3 Hannele , sensing this , whipped down the buttons very quickly and , before pulling down his trousers , put her fingers into the flap of his white cotton underdrawers and freed it .
4 Small stones , sticking to the rim , became dislodged and at one point were tumbling down the curve as quickly as the wheel was rising , giving the appearance of effervescence .
5 Well a cup of whatsername stuff I poured down the sink upstairs rather than get it kicked over because if they come back in a silly state then they 'll knock it all over books .
6 Reactor operation could be manipulated , though for a PWR this would involve shutting down the reactor more frequently than usual .
7 We met with the head ski instructor first and he made us all ski down the slope individually so that he could put us into different groups .
8 She raced down the slope as fast as she could go .
9 Word is coming in that rival hamlets are already filling in the forms as fast as they can put pen to paper .
10 My right hon. Friend can not write off the WEU as simply and as simplistically as he did .
11 I have some illustrative figures in front of me erm which I I thought a question of this nature might , might crop up , erm th the figures are n't absolutely accurate , they were pulled off the file very quickly and er they may be out by er er er er a small amount , but they , they certainly illustrate the point .
12 The players with the required letters then form a line to make up the word as fast as they can , and the team which does it the quickest gets a point .
13 So I wrapped up the conversation as rudely as someone on Newsnight trying to silence a politician , just as he dealt me a social body blow .
14 Then they ran out of the saloon and up the backstairs as quickly as they could , to resume their game in the safety of the nursery .
15 Ana seemed to pick up the vibes very quickly and tagged along with Mitch , laughing at his humour , turning her head from time to time in Maggie 's direction as if she could hear steam coming from her ears .
16 Biting back feelings of inadequacy , frustration and anger I tied up the bundle as well as I could , resigning myself to losing most of it on the way down the hill , preparing for laughter and jeers when we got to the village .
17 The head keeper scooped up the coins as deftly as any tax collector .
18 They rode back up the valley as fast as they could go .
19 Not giving her resolve time to weaken , she slipped off her shoes and hurtled up the alley as fast as she could go .
20 We wound up the windows as quickly as possible but we were already soaked .
21 She had long ago stopped resenting their original professional clashes , and these days their disagreements tended to be over minor details , with her ending up the victor as often as he did .
22 Clearing up the faeces as soon as possible , whether in the garden or a park , is obviously to be recommended in any event , and this may help to break the habit .
23 He has summed up the issue much better than I could .
24 ‘ She was afraid of what he might do when she told him she was n't going to keep up the pretence any longer and everything she did in future was to be sold as her own work . ’
25 I wo n't feel ‘ complete ’ until we have at least one more baby — but I dare n't bring up the subject very often as my husband just gets more and more adamant .
26 At a Christmas assembly at Aachen in 837 , having carefully built up aristocratic and episcopal support , and secured the agreement of Pippin ( whose own ambitions in Francia now looked blighted ) and Louis the German , Louis solemnly conferred on Charles " a part of the regnum " , with the following boundaries : the greater part of the Belgic provinces , in other words , the whole of Frisia from the North Sea and Saxon frontier as far as the frontier of the Ripuarian Franks , and along the latter , the counties of Mulekewe , Ettra , Hamarlant and Maasgau ; then all the territory between the Meuse and Seine as far south as Burgundy , including Verdun ; and going from Burgundy , the counties of Toul , Ornois , Blois , Blaisois , Perthois , the two Bars [ i.e. Bar-le-Duc and Bar-sur-Aube ] , Brienne , Troyes , Auxerre , Sens , the Gâtinais , Melun , Etampes , the Pays de Châtres , and Paris ; then along the Seine to the Channel and up the coast as far as Frisia again : within these , all the bishoprics , abbacies , counties , fisclands , and all pertaining thereto .
27 While I have great sympathy for the doctors of twenty years or more ago who did not realise the addictive effect of such tablets when they began to prescribe them , I do not feel equal sympathy for those doctors ( fortunately their number is growing less ) who still hand out similar prescriptions to their patients and then fail to monitor their progress or to help them give up the medication as soon as possible .
28 Weigh up the alternatives as carefully as you can and draw logical conclusions .
29 As for the Multiple sclerosis sufferers at Didcot ; they believe there 's enough evidence to give credibility to their treatment , so they 're keeping up the pressure both inside and outside the chamber .
30 All agreed to this , and then another knight , Sir Peter de la Mare , who was the Earl of March 's steward , summed up the debate so skilfully that he was chosen by the commons to speak on their behalf before the lords .
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