Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down on the beach , marvelling all over again at the sheer sweep of it , Elizabeth took a series of picture-postcard shots . |
| 2 | There is a plain and severe bell tower to the right , which is later than the main part of the building , and a projecting , half-roofed porch to the left ; the nave of the church is between the two , with its tiled roof sloping steeply down unilaterally from the tower to the porch . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At Batavia , the pall of ash took a fair while to arrive ; in the early morning of the twenty-seventh , the sky was clear , but by 10.15 it had become lurid and yellowish as the ash spread across the sky ; by 10.30 the first fine ash was actually sifting softly down on to the streets . |
| 5 | Sticking straight up out of the sea as if they 'd grown there . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The oral shield is approximately pentagonal with an obtuse proximal angle and a straight or convex distal edge , the shield is long extending just over half-way to the edge of the disk . |
| 8 | It performed a Velcro impersonation , sending me spinning right back down to the pitch below . |