Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Willie did so and soon picked up the melody until he almost began to enjoy it . |
| 2 | He would stay for just an hour or so and then gather up the equipment and disappear . |
| 3 | That in turn means concentrating our limited resources on fewer and carefully selected targets where we can , over the years , bring about change and effect medium and long-term and far-reaching improvements , as opposed to merely and inadequately propping up the status quo . |
| 4 | Pamella spent four days under siege while the pack sat outside and merrily divvied up the 24-hour doorstep into shifts . |
| 5 | Tolonen bowed his head , then turned his right hand palm upward and quickly tapped out the command on the grid of tiny flesh-coloured blisters at his wrist . |
| 6 | The next morning I looked out of the window of my warm bedroom into the backyard and saw a child enter the open gate from the garden , look cautiously round , lift the lid from an over-flowing garbage can and quickly and efficiently pick out the scraps of bread and other left-overs from our supper tables the previous night . |
| 7 | This can be done very simply in a freshwater aquarium by using a nitrate absorbing resin which rapidly and safely takes up the nitrate . |
| 8 | After depositing my faint-hearted photographer at the foot of the craggy slope , I locked the Discovery 's transmission into low-ratio first gear for the steep climb , revved the big V8 engine decisively and gingerly eased out the clutch . |
| 9 | Non-European countries were more and more to take up the methods and manners of Europe . |
| 10 | Sam Reed scored twice and then set up the third goal for Tom Cox . |
| 11 | I ai n't got no money , but I do n't reckon they 'll mind me sitting there and just looking out the window . |
| 12 | I left it there and then went down the caravan . |
| 13 | I waited until the Worm was back in there and then blocked up the hole through which it had come . |
| 14 | Understandably , he decided there and then to write off the two weekly instalments he was due to collect from a customer there , and never to lend again in that place . |
| 15 | However , do n't thrust the chin forwards and only pull back the withdrawing hand as far as the side of the face — not to the ribs or the hip . |
| 16 | I go upstairs and softly look round the door of my son 's bedroom . |
| 17 | Without thinking she snatched up the phone again and quickly tapped out the apartment number . |
| 18 | He kissed her again and then started up the car . |
| 19 | It seemed to her like the anus of the entire factory : a black tunnel that extruded the castings , still encased in black sand , like hot , reeking , iron turds , on to a metal grid that vibrated violently and continuously to shake off the sand . |