Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] and [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could then walk much faster and push up the average daily mileage . |
| 2 | Jenkins , just too old for combat , was the only groom left at Brougham , but he was already up and mucking out the boxes , for he still had six horses to do . |
| 3 | However , Ell moved quickly over and picked up the raw meat . |
| 4 | A few minutes later Nathan jumped down into the cockpit once more and hauled out the roller-reefed headsail . |
| 5 | 2 nurses can perform a dressing more efficiently and cut down the length of time a wound is exposed and at risk and the number of times hands need to be washed . |
| 6 | It is also more likely that patients , and their partners , will see how treatment is related to their everyday lives , and they will be able to act on the feelings more immediately and carry out the tasks arising from the session . |
| 7 | His head had been propped against a rock which had attracted the lightning of a sudden thunderstorm : the bolt had hit the rock straight on and rolled down the rock — so they all swore — to stab him fatally in the neck . |
| 8 | ‘ They were moving really fast and churning up the sand . |
| 9 | Nelson 's had just issued a short book of mine on Turkey , and he scrutinized it with care , holding it high up and bending back the spine as if to test its durability . |
| 10 | so you had to go right round and come down the mud down |
| 11 | He stumped savagely downstairs and picked up the receiver . |
| 12 | Chop the shallots very finely and arrange around the edge of four serving plates . |