Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cloud rolled effortlessly and relentlessly down the slopes of the volcano , spreading out into a broad fan which rapidly engulfed St Pierre , and in the next two or three minutes killed all but two of the population , and set the town ablaze from end to end . |
| 2 | Each evening the quayside would be crowded with holidaymakers who made a point of going to watch the long procession of over 100 boats , their lights twinkling as dusk began to fall , pass slowly and majestically down the harbour and out to sea . |
| 3 | The last two guides showed me how it was done , climbing quickly and fearlessly down the face . |
| 4 | He drove quickly and dangerously back the way they 'd come . |
| 5 | a ‘ sordid and selfish character ’ who ‘ had warped further and further out the straight with time ’ ; a passenger aboard the Golden Mary who , after the ship is wrecked , thinks only of himself . |
| 6 | With time , the cells proceed further and further down the landscape and become more and more distant from each other , reflecting different patterns of gene activity . |
| 7 | Then , as the rain cleared , the moon shone out to reveal what they had feared : one hundred and thirty tall-masted galleons , in perfect crescent formation , sailed slowly but purposefully up the channel coast . |
| 8 | The hotel was n't really big enough for her to get confused as she checked up whether to turn left or right down the passage . |
| 9 | Universities such as Lancaster are going steadily and rapidly up the poll and are doing very well indeed . |
| 10 | Active inquiries were suspended and the file crept farther and farther down the heap until two years after Inez Glynn 's disappearance , it had drifted down to archives . |
| 11 | As the magma approached the surface , the pressure on it would decrease , and the gas in it would expand ; as the gas expanded it would take up more room , and this in turn would force the whole mass to rise faster and higher up the vent . |