Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kiku rode sedately down the slope towards Burun and Suragai followed her like a shadow . |
| 2 | A few moments later they passed Gilberto walking back up the hill to the place where he had left his own car , just below the massive wall of the columbarium in the cemetery where Ruggiero Miletti had been interred two hours previously . |
| 3 | As Everton regrouped bad-temperedly , Crystal Palace attacked swiftly down the left , Rodger pulled the ball back from the byline and Coleman sidefooted into an empty net . |
| 4 | Zambia was answering the robot 's questions about hir gender state when Tammuz sauntered lankily down the colonnaded walkway , hands in pockets . |
| 5 | His eyes run quickly down the page . |
| 6 | I grimaced at Ellen , then went topsides where I found the ship being steered by its automatic pilot and Thessy and Jackson Chatterton perched halfway up the mainmast with reels of rigging wire from which Thessy was fashioning a parallel set of starboard shrouds . |
| 7 | Fearful , utterly unaware now of the two men near by , she let her eyes move slowly up the document , seeing other names but only vaguely noting that she was scanning a list of some sort . |
| 8 | Voices echoed flatly down the long hall . |
| 9 | The figure walked slowly down the shed . |
| 10 | We gradually side stepped higher up the slope . |
| 11 | The radar waves bounce back off the cars that approach , and are registered by the receiving apparatus . |
| 12 | He had lifted her into his arms before she could protest , although in truth she hardly felt in any condition to trek back up the incline towards the barn . |
| 13 | Later in the afternoon the wind rose and black storm-clouds rolled inexorably down the valley . |
| 14 | An unshaded fitting glared weakly down the cellar steps . |
| 15 | Vass regarded her flushed face , then let his eyes drift slowly down the length of her slender , dressing-gown-clad figure . |
| 16 | The doors of the rooms were open and patterns of light slid imperceptibly down the landing walls , feeling their way , as if on tiptoe across the threshold . |
| 17 | Jess made a vague gesture with her hands : ‘ I dropped th'money , miss , and it rolled … oh … it went bouncing along … like little silver wheels straight down the crack between them flaps as covers cellars . |
| 18 | I allowed my eyes to travel slowly up the length of the chimney breast , tilting my head back to take in the upper reaches , and my hat fell off . |
| 19 | Last season the whole defence seemed totally up the creek . |
| 20 | A few minutes after eight , as they watched , a black flag moved slowly up the post . |
| 21 | An ice-cream girl sauntered slowly up the aisle with a loaded tray , up to her tits in choc-ices and orange drinks . |
| 22 | Five minutes later Léonie walked carefully down the stone-flagged passage into the kitchen . |
| 23 | The constable walked back up the stairs , shaking his head . |
| 24 | A ‘ clow ’ was a flap-valve to stop flood-water rising back up the ditches at high tide . |
| 25 | Soon one could ignore it , except now and then when the fire seemed to take a huge breath and glowed with a sudden fierceness which sent sparks flying crazily up the chimney . |
| 26 | The miners scrambled back up the hill of the slanting deck and the ship steadied . |
| 27 | He opened the door , peering out over Kirov 's shoulder ant glancing furtively down the empty stairway . |
| 28 | But the idea was eventually sunk when Scarborough Council did not back the idea , which was designed to give the shipyard a new lease of life . |
| 29 | The cat ran straight down the trunk of the tree . |
| 30 | Yes , there were gateways here in this Castle , where midnight footsteps trod purposefully down the halls … |