Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The next morning Tony parked his car and walked slowly towards the newly completed office block . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Gunnell , running a controlled race , came through strongly into the final bend and pulled away in the straight to win by half a second . |
| 10 | Gunnell , running a controlled race , came through strongly into the final bend and pulled away in the straight to win by half a second . |
| 11 | Lord James added : ‘ These efforts must now be redoubled and focused increasingly on the most pressing problems . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We have improved steadily , won two Five Nations games last season and pulled away from the lowest ebb anyone can remember . |
| 13 | Her legs were long and elongated further by the very high heels which she wore . |
| 14 | As a result , the burden of taxation has to be increased and falls heavily on the lowest paid . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In the morning , I telephoned Mrs Baudelaire and listened again to the almost girlish voice on the wire . |
| 18 | The older surfers like Manetta and the younger Badlands faces meet and surf together at the less well-known spots on the local coastline . |
| 19 | However , when he poses the question of whether his method could work as well for the class struggle as for the boxing match , Sartre admits that he finds it impossible to answer and returns instead to the much easier case of sub-groups . |
| 20 | How much easier to cut yourself off from all these problems and withdraw emotionally into the less demanding machine of prison life . |