Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He pushed her gently down on to the settee and sat so close to her that she could hardly breathe for fear that she 'd betray how much she wanted him .
2 My Queen , there is a gale and a high tide coming together , and the general view is that the women and children might be better off up in the hill-houses . ’
3 Owen caught her and eased her gently back on to the sofa .
4 Have you ever been in love , Ellie ? ’ he asked , bringing them gently back on to the track he wanted .
5 Then pretend to lay the cards randomly back down on the table .
6 The double doors allowed the wagons loaded with corn to pass right through on to the floor of the middlestead .
7 The plane slipped easily down out of the night sky on to the Doha runway .
8 To go away off up into the workings again .
9 But Maria was already back up to the piano stool .
10 ‘ So long as you do n't gossip with him , no , ’ he said flatly , and turned on his heel to stride coolly out on to the terrace again , so tall he had to dodge the metal chimes that hung over the french windows .
11 In the end it took ten minutes to get the Cambridgeshire police Land Rover turned past McLeish 's squad and their vans , and away back up to the stable .
12 Further on down towards the end of the chapter , in verse twenty
13 Once down out of the wind , the weather was bearable again and we could enjoy the intriguing glen pitted with the ruins of ancient shielings either side of the Allt a' Chobhair .
14 Erm , cos all the other girls are still up out of the whole says on the letter it 's wri , it said L block .
15 Again , Jasper 's eyes demanded they chance it ; they walked smartly up out of the Underground on the other side , and saw two policemen — different ones — coming towards them .
16 The reception area had obviously been designed to impress , with its mushroom-coloured Anton Plus carpet imported from America , its three-tiered Czechoslovakian glass crystal lights , its brown leather armchairs and its crushed velour curtains draped ornately on either side of the plate glass window facing directly out on to the car park .
17 They did not and they could not think of themselves as remotely like a frog and a princess , yet mental shapes similar in heritage or configuration managed to creep stealthily up in between the tangles of their individual cells .
18 The towers of South London glide slowly up out of the east as I think these thoughts , perform their well-rehearsed half-revolve and retire with dignity into the west .
19 We were in the sports hall and she flew right up on to the top of the climbing frame at the far end from where I was giving my little lecture .
20 Otherwise it 'd er fill right up down to the side the , the top of the boat , that was on a Sunday .
21 And they 'll have tanks for the sewage , which now drops straight down on to the tracks , of course . ’
22 Come straight down on to the concrete floor .
23 In the Technosyn equipment , the gun is arranged so that the beam fires obliquely down on to the specimen ( Fig. 6.2 ) and these magnets are not needed .
24 Do n't imagine you can walk easily straight up on to the Arête from the bottom of the corrie , as you may get into difficulties near the top unless you 've a head for heights .
25 Sticking straight up out of the sea as if they 'd grown there .
26 There is in particular one very small hotel , the Hôtel des Rem parts , whose rear windows look straight out on to the church and its battlements , and beyond them to the woods and escarpments rising sharply behind .
27 He shut the gate then just ran straight out on to the road .
28 The pageant they built was crude — a ladder and a low plinth for God to sit on , a single trapdoor straight out on to the grass , a curtain across to conceal anyone who used it .
29 Where there is a real emergency , the best tactic is to go straight out on to the street and recruit signatures .
30 Thus my first glimpse of Isvik was from the bathroom window of a seafaring man , who had exchanged his small coaster for a house on the quay looking straight out on to the Magellan Strait .
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