Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some say that the church has significantly failed to provide a safe ‘ family ’ , and the result has been that thousands of needy people have drifted through and away to the false substitutes of the world . |
| 2 | In 1705 he wrote that he doubted whether he would see the winter through and early in the next year he died , leaving a last , unfinished letter to his young friend . |
| 3 | What else , after all , was Christ in his death but the keenest image of abjection and arrogance , the epitome of that transgressive masochism which has played such an important part in making and unmaking our culture , not least in the figure of the martyr , and which figures over and again in the cultural depictions of the crucifix ? |
| 4 | No , it 's it 's used it 's used in situations where an abbreviation can be made , or er , er , erm , an abstract symbol can be made , but again , this this was used normally in print , even in printing of novels and sermons and erm , and important documents , right up , u you know , up and well into the nineteenth century , before it was considered that that was not formal enough , and that the word and had to be written out formally Are there any words in this section which you ca n't find a modern English version of easily ? |
| 5 | But the fire in them burnt like a bud of blue flame , swelling , growing , until they felt it would flame into a shower of stars , reaching into the velvet darkness , the little frail wobbly lights of their bikes signalling to the lights of the travelling plane , their mounts leaping up over humps , over rises in the road , up and away into the intoxicating night . |
| 6 | On Creag a'Bhancair , Glen Coe , freshly graduated Doctor Grant Farquhar , with assistance from Gary Latter , climbed Up With The Sun — a line that starts next to Uncertain Emotions the heads up and right to the remaining peg on Risk Business , follows that route to its belay and then boldly climbs the arête left of Gone With The Wind crux to belay as for Carnivore . |
| 7 | I mean Tramp is gon na come up and fucking in the English dict dictionary and they 're gon na say a meaning unknown . |
| 8 | He nodded slowly to himself , then looked up and across at the lace-curtained window , like a bird perhaps suddenly spotting the open door of its cage . |
| 9 | Soon Downes had reached the last carriage , in front of the diesel locomotive , staring quickly through the windows of the compartment as the few doors still remaining open were banged shut and a whistle blew , and with a slight chug and then with a mighty heave the long , north-bound train began slowly to move forward , gradually picking up a little speed , before moving out and away along the curving stretch of line that led to Banbury . |
| 10 | For a moment she had lain stunned , then had vowed to herself she would be out and away by the next morning . |
| 11 | farther east , Russian campaigns against the Buryats around the southern end of Lake Baikal went on from the 1630s to the 1680s , causing great turmoil as some Buryat and Mongol tribes withdrew to Mongolia , or were buffeted back and forward between the two aggressive empires . |
| 12 | The use of And yet in the third paragraph , for instance , gives the impression that the writer is thinking aloud , or perhaps just moving back and forth along the same line of argument — as one would do in chatting to a friend — rather than firmly wrapping up one stage in the argument before moving on to the next as is the case in the German text . |
| 13 | With her generosity of spirit , she always forgave my sliding back and forth across the East-West or male-female barriers . |
| 14 | The shadows from the candlelight darted back and forth across the shallow whitewashed dome . |
| 15 | A flashlight searched back and forth across the sleeping bodies of the coolies as the hulking figure of Duclos advanced down the barrack in a dripping black rain cape . |
| 16 | And on one day of hard frost , Paul and Molly had slid back and forth across the shining ice , screaming with delight , watched by a bold robin who sat fearlessly nearby on a low bare branch preening the pale grey feathers that edged the bronze of his breast . |
| 17 | Drawn by light-stepping ponies , lowing bullocks , sweating , yellow-skinned men or smoking petrol and steam engines , unending processions of carriages , carts , rickshaws , trams , trains , cars , and motor buses were plying urgently back and forth across the drab plain of treeless rice fields , hurrying to complete their business before the heat of noon drove their passengers to seek shelter and shade . |
| 18 | Without ceasing to play a wide beam of heat back and forth across the advancing hordes , Ace checked the power supply of her blaster . |
| 19 | She follows me into the room and plants herself square in the middle of one of the sofas , leaving me to pace back and forth across the thick carpet while I deliver my diatribe . |
| 20 | I got on the bus at the terminus at the bottom of Avondale Buildings and rode it back and forth to the other end of the line , sitting on the top deck , not knowing where I was or what I was doing , until the conductor came up to me at the other terminus , after my fifth trip , and asked : ‘ You all right , mate ? ’ |
| 21 | Every day for the last month we 've been totting the Vortec back and forth to the local office , where it has been used to run an Alpha Four Database . |
| 22 | Hauser paced slowly back and forth at the far end behind his empty chair as he spoke . |
| 23 | To give even a simple account of this sequence demands chapters that travel back and forth between the various territories that Charles conquered and ruled . |
| 24 | Suspicions bubble furiously , contacts drop like ninepins , Redford is bashed on the head a few times , the dreaded box is nicked back and forth between the Good and the Bad like a gunpoint game of Pass The Parcel and Redford 's erstwhile girlfriend Liz ( Mary McDonnell ) ends up offering refuge to the jittery team and their mountains of equipment . |
| 25 | I was trying to communicate between David and Tony , trying to get them to talk to each other , and as a result was going back and forth between the two of them which was a very frustrating experience , added to which I was tired from being on the road and I was very unhappy . |
| 26 | They were busy packing a basket with the things that Sigarup would need , talking quietly , moving back and forth between the two rooms : collecting blankets , cooking pots , a bag of wheat flour , salt and chilli , the cotton tarpaulin that they stretched across upright sticks to make a tent . |
| 27 | In between these two extremes comes the large mass of honourable and intelligent outdoor enthusiasts who listen to the frothings and bayings back and forth between the two factions with alarm , but without the detailed information from both sides which would enable them freely and democratically to make up their own minds , and if necessary bring their concerted pressure to bear on one side or the other to desist . |
| 28 | He had been drifting back and forth between the two ever since . |
| 29 | Actually , it 's a very pleasant way to work — I 've set up one room for word processing and another for screenshot manipulation , so I can switch back and forth between the two whilst I 'm writing captions . |
| 30 | Isabel could only watch helplessly as Lady Eleanor was set to scurrying back and forth between the solar and the Queen 's wardrobe . |