Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] and [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just for the hell of it last night I thought I ‘ d go through the scores so far and pick the best possible legal team . |
| 2 | It was a wonder they had not all mauled each other to death long ago and left the damp , chilly coastline unpeopled except for howling birds . |
| 3 | It fell from favour when the railway came to Kyle of Lochalsh and the ferry there was developed : modern roads have since made this alternative approach much easier and avoid the high crossing of the Mam Ratagan Pass on the old route . |
| 4 | Just turn the machine right o tape right over and use the other side . |
| 5 | He dragged his eyes away again and watched the labouring backs of the sailors . |
| 6 | They take the book of Revelation more literally and believe the second coming of Christ is imminent . |
| 7 | As we suggest in more detail in Chapters 2 and 3 , you will be able to find materials more easily and see the best arrangement for them when you have formed a sense of what you are looking for . |
| 8 | They quickly learned to respond more rapidly and pressed the incorrect switch relatively infrequently ( Fig 5.1 ) . |
| 9 | Last night , England manager Bob Bennett said Gooch still intends to return home early and miss the two-week end-of-tour trip to Sri lanka where Alec Stewart will captain England . |
| 10 | Pausing at the door he turned once more and extended the middle finger of his right hand towards the bed . |
| 11 | One of those interested in the opportunities for détente was Winston Churchill who was British premier once more and became the first major European statesman to advocate a relaxation of tensions with Russia . |
| 12 | If the ILP members were " to the Left " of their leaders , then it was logical that they should advance still further and join the Communist Party . |
| 13 | With Speed pushing right up and supporting the 2 forward … would enable him to make his runs into the box , also get on both flanks to cross , or get on the end of Wallace crosses … |
| 14 | ‘ If yu keep straight on and take the first turnin' on your left , yu 'll be at Sunset Cottage in quarter of an hour . ’ |
| 15 | Oh then she come straight in and cornered the bloody paper . |
| 16 | Then a shapely arm followed , and then the hamadryad leaned right out and grasped the astonished wizard firmly and , with that vegetable strength that can send roots questing into rock , drew him into the tree . |
| 17 | The fact that the passive brings about alterations of word order gives it a special function in writing , because it provides one means by which a writer can link sentences smoothly together and achieve the desired emphasis . |
| 18 | I sang the first sixteen bars in a soft velvet voice , standing perfectly still and letting the sad lyrics speak for themselves . |
| 19 | Sharpe looked behind again and saw the closest Dragoons were now just fifty yards away . |
| 20 | Actually , Simon took it all rather well and saw the funny side of things . |
| 21 | But Richard turned his head even further and looked the other way . |
| 22 | Meanwhile MGM went even further and harnessed the considerable talents and appeal of Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow in Riff Raff , which attempted to show how simple San Francisco fishermen could be led into militancy by a Communist agitator . |
| 23 | The introduction of air into the peritoneal cavity would push the lung up even further and give the diseased part a chance to rest . |
| 24 | One is the Best Imaginable — to work steadily to reduce the losses even further and eliminate the day-to-day variation which is still there . |
| 25 | Reacting instantly , Curtis jerked the wheel hard over and sideswiped the other car , at the same time jerking his foot from the gas pedal . |
| 26 | Students said police entered the campus around 3am and arrested the left-wing president of their representative council , Arthur Mutambara , and the general secretary , Enoch Chikweche . |
| 27 | Herbert was there too and wrote the same day that ‘ It 's heavenly here — the air is wonderful and one never feels tired … ’ |
| 28 | So the ones that do n't want to can be left to go somewhere else and let the other ones get on , otherwise they 're going to hold the others back . ’ |
| 29 | If there were two designers they must have worked closely together and shared the same highly trained team of executants . |
| 30 | We should hope that all our students have opportunities to engage actively in and experience the personal satisfaction of working with and for others in the community . |