Example sentences of "the [noun] [v-ing] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She let out her pent-up breath in a loud gasp of relief ; then she bent over the handlebars and sent the bike whizzing as fast as she could pedal it across the remaining hundred yards or so of field . |
| 2 | Keep the board moving as fast as possible . |
| 3 | Get the board moving as fast as possible with the centreboard retracted . |
| 4 | A Section was camped in a knoll at the end of a spur near Nasuta and they built an observation point which was approached by a crawl through thickets before climbing a tree to a branch chair — the comfort of its armrests had more to do with the watcher keeping absolutely still than with his ease . |
| 5 | Mr Gore stood in the dock looking straight ahead as the charges were read to him . |
| 6 | Facing him , she wasted no time , the words pouring forth just as he drew a reluctant breath before speech . |
| 7 | We begin with Belbo phoning from Paris to say , ‘ They 're after me , ’ and the telephone going dead just as he is about to give the password for the computer file which holds the final explanation known to him alone . |
| 8 | According to this approach , the object of science is , for instance , to gauge the probability of the sun rising tomorrow rather than the probability that it will always rise . |
| 9 | Such conscientious couples even tried to share the child bearing as far as possible . |
| 10 | He leafs through the file of correspondence in his In-tray , the two vertical lines in his brow above the nose drawing closer together as he concentrates on names , figures , dates . |
| 11 | All he wanted was a ‘ getaway car ’ to take him away from the zebra crossing as fast as possible because , when he jumped into my life , he was being chased by a whole gang armed with crossbows and intent on target practice . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , his brave decision to keep the game flowing as often as possible resulted in too many players getting away with too much . |
| 13 | The blue tape of smoke from the left hand snaggled for a moment , then the snaggle slid up the tape and disappeared , leaving the smoke rising as steadily as before from the underside of the hand . |
| 14 | Direction is controlled by the tiller which moves the rudder , while the centreboard keeps the dinghy sailing forwards rather than sideways . |
| 15 | The brindle hounds , John Deverill 's speciality and obsession , stood well to order at one side of the drive with the whippers-in waiting as patiently as they could for the order to move off . |
| 16 | Smaller than Black Grouse with rather dull greenish , not glossy plumage , relieved only by red wattle and white shoulder patch ( i.e. no white wing-bar or under tail ) , and distinct tail shape , the tips curving downwards rather than outwards . |
| 17 | They headed south-east from the city , the Ferrari moving as fast as the wind , following the ‘ Via Tuscolana ’ signs for Frascati where , Nicolo insisted , they would find the best white wine in the world . |
| 18 | According to British observers , rules were altered occasionally in mid-flight with protests from the French flying as thickly as English arrows at Agincourt . |