Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably the programmers cut down on frills in order to cram it all into a single load , though I do n't know why they bothered — no-one will ever get past Level Ten anyway ! |
| 2 | Slowly , very slowly the minutes went by . |
| 3 | Slowly the dolphins move on . |
| 4 | Slowly the roofs go down , |
| 5 | Eventually the women pick out what they want , the traders praise their keen eyes and good sense — at least , I assume that 's what they 're praising . |
| 6 | Eventually the tears dried up , but still she did n't move , lying there listlessly , feeling so brittle that it seemed the smallest of movements would scatter her into a thousand pieces . |
| 7 | Eventually the words sank in , and when Jenny left Hong Kong , quietly dignified after rejection from Jamie , Rachel went with her . |
| 8 | When they were switched on the lights flooded out across the bare , flat expanse of moorland just beyond the perimeter of their property . |
| 9 | Later on the warbirds wing in for the big show . |
| 10 | Suddenly the tears spurted out of Daisy 's eyes and she had to turn away and bury her face in Drew 's Land-Rover . |
| 11 | Suddenly the lights came on ! |
| 12 | The visitors were having a great time until suddenly the lights went up and bar staff started howling , ‘ Give us your pots and glasses and start moving on out , PLEASE ! ’ . |
| 13 | Suddenly the words rushed out in a jumble of grievance and anger . |
| 14 | Suddenly the candles went out . |
| 15 | Suddenly the dogs scampered off , and she saw them jumping up to greet a dark figure . |
| 16 | As the dusk came down the bats came out and the song of birds ceased one by one until only a lone blackbird spoke occasionally from the shadows . |
| 17 | Perhaps the articles turned out badly because his heart was n't really in that kind of parish pump , chatty writing . |
| 18 | We have exhibitions at Sandown , Bristol , Leeds , Glasgow — obviously the machines cash in on this and have their own conventions in various parts of the country . |
| 19 | Erm and on a Friday all the beds went out onto the grass outside the wards for the wards to be cleaned |
| 20 | Clouds of smoke billowed out so the teams crouched down to avoid inhaling the poisonous fumes . |
| 21 | And so the records went on — ‘ a cap be presented to those members who perform the hat trick ’ , ‘ all hat trick caps to be the same colour ’ . |
| 22 | They needed weapons badly so the Iraqis brought in a group of people including me . |
| 23 | And so the miscreants trooped back home to Bean Street , perhaps to bandage the wounds of their neighbourly dispute . |
| 24 | So the women take on the role of his good friends . |
| 25 | So the girls set about phoning potential and existing clients and wrapping up the business . |
| 26 | As the lake mists rise up to the hills so the clouds trail down the mountains and valleys to embrace the earth . |
| 27 | They 're not velocity sensitive ( ie. they wo n't respond to how hard you hit them with changes in signal ) , and although you can record rhythms and bass lines of varying dynamics into an RY10 pattern from a MIDI source , the incoming velocity values are n't recorded by the drum machine and so the sounds play back at a fixed level . |
| 28 | They 're not velocity sensitive ( ie. they wo n't respond to how hard you hit them with changes in signal ) , and although you can record rhythms and bass lines of varying dynamics into an RY10 pattern from a MIDI source , the incoming velocity values are n't recorded by the drum machine and so the sounds play back at a fixed level . |
| 29 | So the mandarins set about finding an alternative . |
| 30 | So the algae hang on as debilitating parasites rather than evolving towards benign cooperation . |