Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ellie understood this to be an office , because there were young men in dark blue suits and white shirts , and young women stenographers in dark blue dresses with white collars sitting at mahogany desks carefully checking perfectly arranged papers , or moving silently across the deeply carpeted floor to file immaculate folders away in mahogany bureaus . |
| 2 | And pave right over to the gate there so you , so that you can get either car out one one car and bring up to the back of here and the other two across there . |
| 3 | Nigger barked in annoyance , and moved out into the more bearable climate of the dry heat rooms . |
| 4 | The concierge doffed his hat to her as she crossed the black and white tiled foyer and after smiling at him she unlocked the door of her small flat and entered directly into the sparsely furnished lounge . |
| 5 | The high amplitude contractions travel over relatively long segments of the colon and appear consecutively in the more distal bowel , suggesting that this activity is coordinated and propulsive . |
| 6 | We turned left , took a deep breath , and changed down to the very smallest chaining . |
| 7 | Franco , however , instinctively rejected the risks involved in an audacious operation and opted instead for the less ambitious objective of driving a wedge between the city and its northern line of defence , in the Guadarrama mountains , by severing the road and rail communications north-westwards out of the city , towards La Coruña . |
| 8 | Samuel Barber 's Adagio for Strings was well enough played but lacked the last ounce of passion , and suffered badly from the aurally obtrusive air conditioning system , Randall Thompson 's Alleluya showed that the Festival Chorus on this occasion were equally as adept at unaccompanied singing as their counterparts had been last week . |
| 9 | Wendy ( played by Maggie Smith plus wrinkly make-up ) has to stay in the Wendy house , while grown-up Peter forgets all about his kidnapped daughter , and concentrates instead on the more important business of bonding with his kidnapped son . |
| 10 | He should pull himself together , buy himself a decent set of clothes and pop down to the Today ( sic ) for a shift in the showbusiness department . |
| 11 | Let's move on to the medium-term question and get away from the perhaps the more depressing end of this time spectrum at any rate . |
| 12 | It does not matter whether the golden spike is hammered in somewhere in England or in France or in China , so long as we can make an arbitrary decision , stop arguing about words and get on with the much more difficult ( but much more rewarding ) task of correlation . |
| 13 | The next morning Tony parked his car and walked slowly towards the newly completed office block . |
| 14 | There was , of course , first and absolutely foremost , the need to keep on jumping , and to do so at the very highest level ; a need which Fräulein Silber emphasised repeatedly . |
| 15 | If we were to construct a ‘ ladder ’ of non-fatal offences , starting with the most serious and moving down to the least serious , the offence of attempted murder should be placed at the top . |
| 16 | Gunnell , running a controlled race , came through strongly into the final bend and pulled away in the straight to win by half a second . |
| 17 | Gunnell , running a controlled race , came through strongly into the final bend and pulled away in the straight to win by half a second . |
| 18 | Lord James added : ‘ These efforts must now be redoubled and focused increasingly on the most pressing problems . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We have improved steadily , won two Five Nations games last season and pulled away from the lowest ebb anyone can remember . |
| 20 | You 're not allowed to work on it and er that 's about it really , our programme , we 've decided to er start the pipe at the first position away from the tank construction and we 've , we 've set out , we employed a concrete layer and to lay out the pipes while we 're doing nothing and continue on with the so that while this gang is actually laying there 's only er six people in total . |
| 21 | The drinkers , drunk as they were , full of glasses of wine , fell back from the man , who , with the rags he wore , had surprisingly clean white underpants — what struck Rab — raised his coat and squatted down as the most natural thing in the world . |
| 22 | Her legs were long and elongated further by the very high heels which she wore . |
| 23 | Benin eased the velvet curtains apart and looked out over the brightly lit garden . |
| 24 | Julius strolled over and looked down at the quietly flowing water . |
| 25 | It does n't seem to have had as bad an effect on a lot of people as it might appear — they have n't immediately turned round and gone back to the very worst anti-gay feeling . |
| 26 | As a result , the burden of taxation has to be increased and falls heavily on the lowest paid . |
| 27 | Feeling heat suffuse her cheeks , she quickly turned her head away before Gwen could notice and stared straight into the brightly enquiring hazel eyes of a young boy . |
| 28 | She emerged at the bottom of the hill and stared up at the brilliantly burning pyres by the cruig-morn . |
| 29 | The trousers had followed the jacket on to the chair , leaving only a pair of grey and white striped boxer shorts , and in dumb amazement she clutched the towel around her and stared reluctantly at the most impressive male body she 'd ever seen , well over six feet of muscle and sinew and matt-looking olive-tanned skin . |
| 30 | In the morning , I telephoned Mrs Baudelaire and listened again to the almost girlish voice on the wire . |