Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fired again , and felt the lesser kick which told him the ball had only lodged half-way down the barrel . |
| 2 | Applying the opposite rudder will tend to reduce the yaw and so help even out the stalling of the wings . |
| 3 | A group of American companies was reported to have instructed its vessels not to stray farther up the Gulf than the Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura . |
| 4 | Mm , mm , cos of King 's Cross , had to come at all it 's awful and one time you just went straight on the escalator and now you 've got to go |
| 5 | Holding his young son in front of him in a sort of cruel parody of his wedding procession , he was humiliatingly marched publicly down the full length of the new Chandni Chowk . |
| 6 | Flint walls , often up to three feet thick , were usually built straight on the ground without foundations , with a central hearth , the fire either laid on the earth floor or , if better off , a large stone slab . |
| 7 | An enemy searchlight lit the danger and the boat sheered off to beach further up the coast on sand dunes , ‘ a dark outline showing against the sky ’ . |
| 8 | In the process she had made a lightning circumnavigation of the British Isles and was now steaming hard down the west coast while we returned by the eastern route . |
| 9 | So I got out the car and I went over and I , turned it down , as it were turning down I saw it was n't pouring just out the tap , it was also pouring from the |
| 10 | ‘ We 'd simply walk straight up the wall of your house . ’ |
| 11 | They were standing on the terrace just before lunch , watching the shrinking white mantle that had covered the slopes for the last two days , when a dark shape moving fast appeared further up the valley . |
| 12 | I climbed into my paper nightie and was helped on to a narrow trolley by a second Farrah Fawcett blow-up doll ( but punctured ) , then gazed adoringly up the nose of a Greek god as he wheeled me into an open lift and down to the basement operating theatre to a waiting : ‘ Hi , I 'm Andy , your anaesthesiologist . ’ |
| 13 | Grip lashes with the curlers as close to the roots as possible and hold for five seconds , then repeat halfway down the lashes . |
| 14 | They paused a moment longer , then moved further down the gallery , inspecting each exhibit , checking any books which could be the hidden Grimoire . |
| 15 | It is not a simple matter of a king giving his orders which then pass smoothly down an organized chain of command . |
| 16 | He called out : ‘ I ca n't hold on any longer , ’ then fell straight on the ledge below , bounded out into the air , turning a somersault backwards , and pitching on to a grass projection some 30′ lower down … |
| 17 | It gave way beneath her , she fell and then rolled helplessly down the aisle . |
| 18 | They went into free-fall for half the distance and then floated gently down the rest of the way . |
| 19 | I was about to make quietly down the hillside when he moved . |
| 20 | In such conditions you can fish the river as if it were a canal , with very little weight either spread equally down the line , or grouped just below half way with a dropper about twelve inches above the hook . |
| 21 | Indeed , their only identifiable link is Andy , currently climbing easily up the red rock . |