Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The allies should not welcome this , though the argument for fighting on regardless of the latest Soviet efforts at peacemaking was neither bloodthirsty nor trivial . |
| 2 | As they ran on together across the flat open plateau , Yanto explained breathlessly what he had done . |
| 3 | The leather thwacked down on to the white tender flesh of her bonny twin moons to leave red scorch marks across the ivory white skin . |
| 4 | Here there is a calm sense of wonder and satisfaction coming down gently from the previous energetic emotion with the sigh of , ‘ Ah ’ , but still maintaining the feeling of happiness and ‘ brightness ’ with words such as ‘ white ’ and ‘ flame ’ with references to nature and ‘ bird-song ’ . |
| 5 | Early in this section it was pointed out that not all organisations fit in easily to the three level structure . |
| 6 | The impression was reinforced by Elton squatting down comfortably on the front-stage light box mid-story . |
| 7 | Hari took the tea Beatie handed her and set it down quickly on the scrubbed wooden table . |
| 8 | Leeds boss Doug Laughton moved in quickly for the 31-year-old former Test forward after he was listed at £20,000 at his own request . |
| 9 | Leeds boss Doug Laughton moved in quickly for the 31-year-old former Test forward after he was listed at £20,000 at his own request . |
| 10 | While the weight of the waste we all throw away has been going down slightly over the last twenty years , ( because things like glass , plastic bottles and cans have become thinner ) , the volume of waste has been rising . |
| 11 | … the black and red patterned blanket folded over with the top sheet to form two parallel white borders from which the planes move slowly off , rise suddenly and vanish or come in out of the low grey cloud … . ( 10–11/404–5 ) |
| 12 | signs of winter came floating in today as the new national hunt season got underway at Bangor … |
| 13 | Er shall I pop in tomorrow with the two hundred pound for Norwich then ? |
| 14 | This attractive hardwood conservatory has a steep pitched roof that blends in well with the gabled Elizabethan building behind . |
| 15 | They seemed to be settling in well in the first two days . |
| 16 | ‘ Look down there at the Western Surplus Store , ’ McIntosh said . |
| 17 | I was down there in the late fifties |
| 18 | Two Rob Roy canoes had been in ahead of the main raiding force on the night of 22/3 November , one pair of these canoeists were caught — described later — and the second missed their rendezvous , paddling back to England . |
| 19 | It was down round about the forty two , forty five horsepower mark . |
| 20 | Bob felt himself swooping down again into the great soft darkness of sleep . |
| 21 | Leithen and I stopped at the top of the hill and looked down again into the little green valley . |
| 22 | Consultancy profits were down again from the poor first half level . |
| 23 | This led to a good deal of overlapping and interdepartmental rivalry , notably between the foreign and war offices : propaganda in the neutral states which it was most important to influence was in fact carried on largely by the British diplomatic missions there , often supported by groups of expatriates and local anglophiles . |
| 24 | Then , lurching to his feet , he moved over on to the only empty seat in the shrine — a patch of floor covered with a sheepskin rug . |
| 25 | In no sense did it correspond to the experience of student activism that so many of my generation were to go through elsewhere over the next few years . |
| 26 | but they only go over once in the Grand National . |
| 27 | The recollections of those who worked with him in the war years show a striking convergence : volunteers were won over instantly by the self-assured prophetic tone in which he discussed the war and by his knack of making them feel that they had been singled out to receive a confidence . |
| 28 | Over and over again in the past few weeks he has shown himself to be leading a rudderless , aimless Government . |
| 29 | ( There were seven of these , whose function was to convey information gained through Ultra to the Allied High Commands in various parts of the world . ) |
| 30 | TWO Britons set off yesterday on the first trans-atlantic hot-air balloon race . |