Example sentences of "slowly [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sun , incandescent orange , dropped slowly on to pier 56 and made the buttes of mid-town Manhattan shine like fool 's gold . |
| 2 | People were moving slowly off to east and west . |
| 3 | The bomber dropped from formation with smoke pouring from it and disappeared slowly out to sea . |
| 4 | She tried to tug her foot free , but he held it easily , his strong , capable fingers massaging her frozen toes , making her groan as they came slowly back to life . |
| 5 | Her sweet words were still echoing in his ears as he came slowly back to reality . |
| 6 | Other stories about Dic , Little Dick the Carpenter — how he never got to a rugby match because there were too many pubs on the way , how he was burnt all over in a pit explosion , wrapped in bandages so that only his eyes and nostrils showed through — and bathed slowly back to health by his daughters who poured olive oil over him all the time , how he took his daughter Cecilia ( Cis ) to eisteddfods because he loved to hear her sing but how she pleaded with him ‘ not to stop anywhere and not to leave her in the hall ’ . |