Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barak instinctively stuffed them back into his pocket then rubbed his hands together nervously . |
| 2 | But he survived his brush with death and eventually made it back to an English hospital . |
| 3 | I swing round slowly , slowly , and slowly level it to aim at the spider , slowly push it forward against the pull of the concertina pipe behind . |
| 4 | Ormanroyd wins the header Speedy flicks it on again and Chettle er Chettle rather got it away as Jochim came in on him . |
| 5 | And then , so gently that she was hardly aware of what was happening — as if she was merely swaying with the tide — he gradually pulled her towards the shore , slowly drawing her up against the bare , damp skin of his broad chest . |
| 6 | Finland , bound by its treaty of friendship with the Soviet Union , effectively ruled itself out of any participation for the time being . |
| 7 | But we still went on enjoying ourselves immensely for the officers handed us chocolates and were very kind . |
| 8 | He usually sleeps for a couple of days and then slowly builds himself up for the next trip . |
| 9 | Turning down ‘ loads of really tacky telly ’ , he decided he 'd rather slog it out on the alternative circuit than settle for being the new Bobby Davro . |
| 10 | I tried to keep my feelings under control and remember that all these people were mostly helping us out of the goodness of their hearts , but sometimes it was difficult . |
| 11 | Exposed to Minton 's freewheeling , glamorous Bohemianism , some found it difficult afterwards to stand on their own feet , for Minton had effectively broken them away from their backgrounds or their jobs . |
| 12 | Worse still , an injury kept Sure Sharp idle for the rest of his second season and it was only last year that Hills eventually got him back into action . |
| 13 | ‘ A well-paid job , a pretty girl or a desirable residence may each be located only five minutes away and yet be effectively inaccessible because one 's inadequate skills , social talents or incomes effectively place them out of bounds … . ’ |
| 14 | Threading her way as diligently as she could through the mass of humanity , it was with a sigh of relief that she eventually found herself back in the vast City Hall square . |
| 15 | My Department is providing £200,000 this financial year to motor projects dealing with young offenders , thereby keeping them out of custody . |
| 16 | James was trying slowly to work something out in his mind . |
| 17 | It was hardly a secret that Gallieni , no admirer of Joffre ( who , among other things , had stolen much of the honour due to Gallieni for the victory of the Marne ) , wanted eventually to pull him back to Paris in the largely administrative capacity of a CIGS , while placing the executive command of the armies in the field under de Castelnau . |
| 18 | At the end , you might slowly count yourself up from 1 to 5 , suggesting to yourself that when you reach the number 5 you will be wide awake , feeling refreshed and at peace . |
| 19 | Cornelius fanned at his trouser bottoms and slowly drew himself back into the vertical plane . |
| 20 | I did not dare move , and yet I did : I put my hand on his thigh , and slowly moved it up towards the centre of my desire . |
| 21 | I do not see why I should so deliver myself up to those who are so assiduously conducting the campaign of abuse and denigration directed at me . |
| 22 | The danger , as Andrei Gavrilov hints at elsewhere in this issue , is that the large emigration of musicians to the West that has taken place since restrictions were relaxed may mean that Russian musical life will lose those very qualities that not only made it technically of such high standing but that also gave it its unique flavour . |
| 23 | She had obviously forgiven him now for all those cruel but necessary things he had said when he dropped her the year before . |
| 24 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support , and I hope that when my nest book is published they will feel confident enough to treat me just as a novelist and not as a problem . ’ |
| 25 | We shall think that it defies a physical law if we are naive enough to treat it simply as a structureless lump of matter with a certain mass and wind resistance . |
| 26 | Through the Lousadas Minton was to an extent drawn into a Hammersmith circle of artists which included Victor Pasmore , Julian Trevelyan and Mary Fedden who once danced with Minton at a New Year 's Eve party until she literally dropped , whereupon he gently laid her down on the floor . |
| 27 | There they gently laid it down on top of the so-centimetre mark at the middle of the tape measure . |
| 28 | So bringing you back to after the war , er how did the business continue er then or for , from that time forward ? |
| 29 | Ross had taken her home , gently helping her out of the taxi and escorting her to the front door . |
| 30 | It is beginning to be recognised that proficiency in more than one language often carries with it the need to be what one might term ‘ crosslingual ’ , that is , able to generate connections across languages rather than only using them independently of each other . |