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 | Built in 1821 as one of 17 semaphore towers , it was equipped with a time-ball in 1854 which drops daily at 1pm down a 15 ft-mast on the roof . |
| 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 | Although I 'm sure the article was of great interest to guitarists and bassists alike , I would like to set the record straight on a few points . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 21 | It ran straight up a wide shallow valley , with tilled fields on both sides , to a huddle of buildings . |
| 22 | Immediately after a semi-derelict farmhouse we turned left through a gate and headed straight up a stony track to Rudland Rigg . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’ |
| 27 | This involves going as far down a single path as possible . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I thought I could cope , but deep down a little nagging voice said to me , leave him where he is , he 's happy , he 's settled , have him home for the holiday . |
| 30 | To reach the glacier you have to walk through a tunnel , then down a narrow ridge with Death on one side and a very steep drop on the other . |