Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They drove slowly down a narrow asphalt drive between the southern wall of the church and the railing bordering the canal , but still there was no sign of life .
2 Over in Ireland , BOB DYLAN got his collar felt last week when a hotel security guard accosted him as he crept stealthily down a little-used fire escape .
3 In practice , it is possible to send a single digitally encoded TV channel only down an optical fibre .
4 Her thoughts taking flight , Luce found they had stopped halfway down a bare stone corridor .
5 Who could say if Margaret was not better off a young widow , able yet to make a humbler and happier match ?
6 But Baldersdale does have one extra visual blessing rarely seen in the Dales — water , Hury Reservoir was built a century or so ago and it stretches sinuously up a major portion of the valley .
7 The caves of Postojna and Škocjan are notable tourist attractions , and there is even a castle , Predjamski Grad , built into the mouth of a cave halfway up a sheer limestone cliff , to which access can be gained by way of a labyrinth of underground passages .
8 Four Australians , for example , above a road to Three Spurs and halfway Up a steep hillside , once knocked out most of the men in the first of two trucks passing below the patrol .
9 When they had collected the papers from a shop on the wharf Tony took him to The Brigantine , a pub halfway up a steep , cobbled street .
10 Mait limped painfully down a connecting gallery , desperately clinging on to the enhancer , which was getting heavier with every passing moment .
11 The walk began by following a track which climbed steeply up a narrow , twisting valley .
12 Most countries ( including Germany and Britain ) broadly back a French model that resembles the façade of a Greek temple .
13 They walked and walked , at first along tiled and bleakly lit corridors under electric lighting , and then along dusty carpets in dark shuttered places , and up a stone staircase and then further up a winding wooden stair , cloudy with dark dust .
14 Depending on what type of dust it is , it just might short out a vital area of the motherboard .
15 Jezrael dragged herself wearily up a nearby pinnacle , hoping to climb above the billowing mist so she could see something .
16 For all Laura 's inner calm there was a thread of tension running through her body clearly visible , for example , in the way she sat ; legs neatly but uncomfortably crossed , back ramrod straight on an upright chair .
17 The Brotherhood has immense economic power which was at first based on its control of the ground-nut trade but later on a diversified portfolio of business interests , many of them urban .
18 The animosity towards Docherty resurfaced years later on a memorable episode of the BBC chat show Wogan , when a clearly drunken George Best outlined his reasons for leaving Old Trafford .
19 Among more specific causes Tilly mentions the growth of cities , trade , merchants and manufacturers , and observes that ‘ Later on a powerful reciprocal relationship between the expansion of capitalism and the growth of state power developed ’ ; a relationship which was noted earlier by Max Weber ( see p. 88 ) and is one of the principal themes in Fernand Braudel 's ( 1972 ) study of Europe in the sixteenth century .
20 Later on an obscure Indian journal landed on our desks , containing a crude representation of an implosion type atomic bomb .
21 Hazel reached the hedge , crossed a narrow turf verge on the other side and found himself looking straight down a long , shadowy aisle between two rows of beans .
22 It ran straight up a wide shallow valley , with tilled fields on both sides , to a huddle of buildings .
23 Immediately after a semi-derelict farmhouse we turned left through a gate and headed straight up a stony track to Rudland Rigg .
24 After an hour on the flat we stood on an old snow patch at the foot of the Plaret cascades and looked straight up a perfect glacier valley to the hut , and beyond the Promontoire hut , glinting in the afternoon light , high on a southerly arm of La Meije .
25 Relaxed and complacent , we headed our way out of the pub and down to a dip — then straight up a ferocious bank turning right at a junction in the road , signposted to Dale End .
26 She drove fearlessly up a narrow dirt-track road that wound steeply between scented pine trees because she was still mad that Fernando could have done such a thing .
27 This involves going as far down a single path as possible .
28 It is not a simple matter of a king giving his orders which then pass smoothly down an organized chain of command .
29 Masklin slid cautiously down an old burger carton .
30 It seemed only minutes , desperately short minutes at that , before she was riding smoothly up a huge curved drive towards a house whose long windows were ablaze with light .
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