Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [conj] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , I do n't believe any of this , she thought tiredly ; every time she opened her mouth she got deeper and deeper into the mire . |
| 2 | Even when Vronsky tried to get Anna to re-enter society , she suffered more from loneliness and her situation just got worse as she got deeper and deeper into the role of a fallen woman . |
| 3 | … the process by which managers assure that resources are obtained and used effectively and efficiently in the accomplishment of the organisation s objectives . |
| 4 | They moved slowly and steadily towards the stranded taxi and then they stopped . |
| 5 | Smallfry peeled off her gloves and moved slowly and elegantly across the kitchen . |
| 6 | They left the superstructure and moved slowly and carefully along the starlit open deck , the increasing wind hammering and buffeting at their bodies . |
| 7 | He moved slowly and cautiously across the pitch-dark room until his knees touched the edge of the bed . |
| 8 | He moved slowly and cautiously through the dead roots and broken timber . |
| 9 | It just sank slowly and steadily below the ocean 's horizon , and suddenly it was gone . |
| 10 | The serial strategy involved thinking of or placing your finger on an imaginary scale and moving backwards and forwards along that scale as adjectives were successively read out until a final impression was reached ; ‘ after the first adjective I rated the person in my head , then moved backwards or forwards along the scale after each attribute ’ or ‘ 1 . |
| 11 | As we follow trajectories starting at two close-together points , we move to points with the same symbolic descriptions but with the central mark moved further and further to the right . |
| 12 | He released her as suddenly as he had come to her support and she grasped quickly and covertly at the back of another chair , not wanting him to know that her numbed leg was tingling painfully now . |
| 13 | Unidentified actress , perhaps the ‘ Miss Shirreff ’ mentioned once or twice in the Diaries of the actor William Macready ( 1793–1873 ) . |
| 14 | As this work proceeded they began to include discussions of ever-earlier periods , and therefore they moved more and more into the field of anthropology . |
| 15 | Of the remaining absences only 42 types occurred more than once in the 46,000 words . |
| 16 | She moved quickly but cautiously down the stairs and stood close to the front door , edging towards the spy-hole , squinting through it . |
| 17 | Then he pulled the door to behind him and moved quickly and efficiently across the floor between the dancers and disappeared into the committee room . |
| 18 | It rose upwards and away from the harassing gulls , tilted , and swept strongly and fast across the sky . |
| 19 | Their society may have , and most probably has , changed radically and often since the time when hunters and gatherers roamed Europe . |
| 20 | Knives chopping carrots , spoons mixing in spices , rolling-pins rolling out the dough , bubbling pans … there is lots of interesting and colourful action in a well run kitchen , enlivened now and again by the peering of children 's eyes over the table-top at all that is going on . |
| 21 | The Sandhopper moved evenly and unhurriedly through the water . |
| 22 | We went out into New York City and staggered here and there through the Village and drooled it all out in bar after bar . |
| 23 | Napoleon III , who had a horror of offending anyone socially , said nothing and both he and Eugénie behaved graciously and warmly during the dinner , as though not in the least put out . |
| 24 | Many society members attended the Festival to watch the team performing , and they really did us proud as they moved rhythmically and gracefully through the Medau hoop-item — aptly named ‘ Whirlpools ’ — devised and produced by Jean , whose live piano music was enhanced by percussion from Margaret Charlwood . |
| 25 | His head smacked firmly and noisily on the low metal ceiling of the tank , threatening to send him spinning back into unconsciousness almost straight away . |
| 26 | He came slowly and deliberately across the fields to the back door . |
| 27 | I decided to try the ‘ little old lady who 's lost her ticket ’ routine , but I was rumbled immediately and directed politely but firmly to the station manager 's office . |
| 28 | ‘ Just drive round ! ’ he ordered , and the driver drove backwards and forwards through the streets of London . |
| 29 | Arghatun was speaking again , and he gestured once or twice in the direction of Rostov and the others so that it was clear that he was making a report . |
| 30 | Like Maurice , with whom they had some affinities , Nevin and Schaff had a horror of party-spirit and sectarianism , and also of the individualism they found deeply entrenched in much American Protestantism , especially in the revivalist movements which came more and more to the fore through the nineteenth century . |