Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But everywhere else — equally in the madrigal , chanson , and German polyphonic Lied , in the music of the Roman Church , Lutheran hymn , and Calvinist psalm note-against-note writing , in chords rather than contrapuntal lines , met most fully the demand for verbal clarity . |
| 2 | A puff of wind swung it round on its vane , and snatched a bunch of twigs from its beak and sent them twirling slowly down the steeple to the ground at Carol 's feet , where they sank into the snow . |
| 3 | Lloyd George and Kitchener have their biographies ; yet those who experienced most directly the turmoil , disruption and loss of the war have their information locked within their memory . |
| 4 | Explaining one of the sections of their manifesto in the preface to the exhibition at Bernheim 's , the Futurists , now aware of Cubist painting , talked for the first time of ‘ battles of planes ’ ; and Boccioni summarizes most concisely the debt of Futurism to Cubism when in Pittura Scultura Futuriste , published in 1914 , he wrote under the heading ‘ Compenetrazione dei Piani ’ : ‘ It is the pictorial method of rendering movement in a painting , making the surrounding objects fuse with the structure of the object placed in their midst ’ . |
| 5 | But people who live under the flight path used by the jets say that the report does n't explain properly HOW the accident happened . |
| 6 | ( Where sounds correspond aurally yet the concept differs depending on the context , further confusion can arise . |
| 7 | Since each inter-probe distance need be calculated only once the execution time is dependent primarily on the number of probes , not the number of clones . |
| 8 | But then , about one year in six , some fortunate swirl in the currents brings them back to the island where they first fell into the water a month earlier and at a high tide in December , a horde of tiny crablets no bigger than ants suddenly emerges from the waves and marches valiantly up the beach and on inland to restock the forest . |
| 9 | The Countryside Commission says its plans have been calculated especially so the path avoids the beautiful National Trust village of Buscot . |
| 10 | Although the unemployment rate at 9.2 p.c. is , for the first time , on a par with the average in Britain , no serious observer expects it to remain so once the economy as a whole picks up . |
| 11 | Roirbak bundled Tammuz into the elevator and they rode halfway up the building in silence until Tammuz said : ‘ I ca n't believe this ! ’ |
| 12 | Allen thought that if they were delayed long enough the Friar would return and then something might be done … unless it was the Friar who had betrayed them . |
| 13 | London became much more the capital of England and a centre of culture , of elegant houses and ‘ conspicuous consumption ’ . |
| 14 | Charles wandered slowly up the village street in search of his valise . |
| 15 | Some people find it easiest to put the seeds in the palm of their cupped hand whilst gently tapping with the other hand so that the seeds are rolled slowly down the groove formed on the palm . |
| 16 | A few minutes after eight , as they watched , a black flag moved slowly up the post . |
| 17 | She moved stealthily down the hall to the kitchen , her hearing sharpened by fear as she strained to detect even the slightest movement in the old house . |
| 18 | He is carried slowly down the centre aisle upon a cushioned palanquin , borne upon the naked shoulders of four local May Queens . |
| 19 | FREEZING snow whipped our faces as we peered nervously down the slope . |
| 20 | Philip ran down the bracken bank to the gate and watched him run down the field to Mrs Wright who was walking slowly down the field . |
| 21 | But ahortly after the heavens opened and the river level rose so high the work had to be abandoned . |
| 22 | Besides , it squeaks so loudly the Headmaster would hear you before you were halfway across . ’ |
| 23 | During one meandering discussion Mr Glover wonders aloud why the trio are huddled in a fancy hotel , instead of talking to each other back at the office , like less exalted folk . |
| 24 | We have not stressed so frequently the importance of liaison with our own colleagues , arguing ( with sometimes dubious validity ) that because it ‘ happens all the time ’ it does not need to be explicitly provided . |
| 25 | ( vit , viz in fact has much more the tone of modern colloquial English prick(s) : see further below ) . |
| 26 | The long gestation comes from the fact that , although mechanical and chemical engineering hold few surprises — if the design looks all right the thing will probably work — electronic engineering carries no such assurances . |
| 27 | He stopped halfway down the passage , whirling about to meet her . |
| 28 | He moved swiftly down the line of the wall , slowing as he neared its end . |
| 29 | An individual with a Quetelet 's Index of 35 has approximately twice the death rate of his or her ideal counterpart . |
| 30 | Both Robert Jones and Dewi Morris will be in action on the final Saturday of the Five Nations but Jones — probably only Ireland 's Simon Geoghegan has lost more ground than him in the course of the season — would need just about the game of his life to regain his lead over Morris as the other scrum-half to Gary Armstrong . |