Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their offices faced right on to our living quarters and they were always staring at us . |
| 2 | The douce denizens of Edinburgh looked up in sudden amazement as a Heinkel thundered low across the rooftops beloved of Baillie Nicol Jarvie and disappeared beyond the hills , a spitfire hanging grimly on to its smoking trail and blazing away at it with all four guns . |
| 3 | Is it possible to arrange that they be given blanks and do n't know which are the blanks and which are the real , because otherwise there 's a risk after you 've done this the schools will suspect that they 're low , and therefore they will add a little on to their blank or something like that . |
| 4 | The Citation rolled slowly on to its left side as Duncan fought to keep it flying and to keep it away from the airliner . |
| 5 | But the other was swollen and half closed , with a Technicolor bruise below it right down to her razor-sharp cheekbone . |
| 6 | Now this emphasis on focusing and honing everything right down to its simplest form can sound a bit like naked capitalism , treating rock ‘ n ’ roll as nothing more than a game . |
| 7 | Green Believers are now pressing the priests of rich-world industry to scan supply chains right down to their poor-world beginnings . |
| 8 | Somewhere down below his neat , desperate parents were bellowing at her to stop but she was n't going to . |
| 9 | But the African sun beat relentlessly down on his aching head . |
| 10 | He was small and agile , bow-legged and with a rubbery face that squirmed in on to his toothless gums as he chewed . |
| 11 | Finding his animosity wearing , she stared at him wide-eyed , the snow drifting down on to her upturned face . |
| 12 | She walked behind the main counter to the flap that could be lifted to give access to the shop itself and , leaning on her forearms , looked down on to her weekly customers and asked , ‘ Well then , what is it to be ? ’ |
| 13 | But perhaps she had seen others at the tree tops , for she clattered her talons violently on the top of her cage , crashed down on to its concrete floor , her wings smashing against the branch that projected across her cage , and then lunged forward at the door of her cage , driven by an impulse that spoke of a terrible longing to be free . |
| 14 | She tossed the idea aside , and dived down on to his slumbering dick . |
| 15 | He sank slowly down on to his right shoulder . |
| 16 | Suddenly two cats on the roof dropped down on to his naked body and woke him . |
| 17 | From the outside terrace he looked down on to his own tiled patio , no more than about twelve feet beneath . |
| 18 | Then he went across his terrace and down on to his damp spring lawn . |
| 19 | Lucenzo 's thick black lashes swept down on to his high cheekbones , and she felt the coolness of his breath on her face . |
| 20 | He 's literally down to his last few pounds |
| 21 | Do you prefer to sandwich your exercise in along with your daily activities or to set aside time exclusively for exercise ? |
| 22 | I never landed a single blow on those perfect shoulders , that sun-tanned thorax , that laughing , mocking , taunting face ; but I was only too happy when he slipped through my feeble defences and gently pummelled me all over with his bare hands , until my all-too-vulnerable defence degenerated into a giggling slapping match . |
| 23 | They believe they would be better off on their own . |
| 24 | Such verdicts add to the intensity of the debate over whether Scotland might be better off on its own . |
| 25 | ‘ I m better off on my own and that 's how I 'm going to stay ! |
| 26 | He 's better off on his own , too , and he knows it . |
| 27 | However , with recorders down to less than £8,000 it does n't take much arithmetic to work out that a company turning over 2,000 slides a year will come close to being better off with its own camera . |
| 28 | Kate Finlayson explains that , with winter approaching , you may well be better off without your own horse ! |
| 29 | Some residents on a housing estate that 's undergone a six million pound refurbishment say they were better off in their old flats . |
| 30 | This is small , delightful , and richly historical , perched high enough up on its fertile hillside to dominate the valley to both north and south . |