Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They waited for some long-legged creature to come stepping delicately out of the trees . |
| 32 | The ‘ Sean Astin digs up a caveman and he fits right in in the Valley ’ plot does n't add to the suburban dumbnation routines but rather reworks the Eighties ' ‘ innocents abroad in America ’ genre ( eg anything from Starman to Crocodile Dundee ) . |
| 33 | The local army base , a corrugated fortress with a spindly camera tower , is pressed right up against a primary school . |
| 34 | Personnel changes have percolated right up to the boardroom . |
| 35 | The restoration of this historic fighter has been completed right down to the last detail , it carries a complete set of camera ports , although the cameras have not been fitted . |
| 36 | When the two of you are standing and balanced together , pivot slowly around towards the toilet or bed , making sure that the person 's knees are prevented from bending . |
| 37 | A plainclothes policeman got leisurely out of the panda car and walked across the road to them . |
| 38 | It looks as if there 's a wall sticking right out over the shingle . ’ |
| 39 | She got wearily out of the car and tramped across the car park to the reception lobby , where she asked the receptionist with peroxided hair if she could phone the AA . |
| 40 | She heard him call after her and got into one of the swing boats with a pale , freckled little boy who was hanging nervously on to the rope while his plain , doting parents stood beside the boat , saying encouragingly , ‘ Go on , Sidney , it 'll be such fun . ’ |
| 41 | A diver had found it out at sea trapped beneath the underground storage container from a petrol station , the container having been ripped right out of the ground . |
| 42 | ‘ Mississippi ’ , she says , ‘ goes clear through to the bone . ’ |
| 43 | This music , incidentally , was a vital influence in British and American bourgeois domestic song , an influence which can in fact be traced right through to the years after the First World War , in such singers as Al Jolson . |
| 44 | It 's something that runs through mining folklore and can be traced right back into the lore of medieval German miners . |
| 45 | Hereford cattle have a long pedigree … they can be traced right back to the red cattle of Roman Britain . |
| 46 | … which soon flies right out of the window ! . 40% |
| 47 | Others even claim that the present knowledge of man and his mind is nil and that real culture will arise only out of the knowledge of the sequence of human DNA . |
| 48 | My unfaithfulness will be eased gently out along the process of life , dispensing with small fragments of guilt as I go . |
| 49 | Mrs Knelle 's garden — or perhaps I should say ‘ grounds ’ — meandered gently down to the narrow lakeside road . |
| 50 | Laura gasped breathlessly as he raised his dark head , gazing fondly up at the man she loved so much . |
| 51 | As Ross watched her gazing fondly down at the babies , whose heads were already covered with dark hair , and — so Laura had firmly informed him — were carbon copies of their father , he knew that he was an incredibly lucky man . |
| 52 | Thomas was motor-crazy , she thought , gazing fondly down at the small dungareed figure . |
| 53 | There was a very considerable consensus on the elements selected , and these choices , in the order in which they appear in the text , are given below along with the percentage ( rounded to the nearest integer ) of the informants who identified each one . |
| 54 | And we 'd squared it up once before because there was wires hanging all over from the sp not from the radio , from the speakers . |
| 55 | There 's that drinks thing where you sit all round on the high stalls you know |
| 56 | The glass was placed gently back on the counter in front of Newman . |
| 57 | And it 's unlikely that Chas 's grandfather got much out of the British Empire beyond , in all probability , two or three years spent serving as a soldier in India , two or three years off the dole queue . |
| 58 | He must have been about to take a shower , she realised , noticing a towel flung carelessly on to the bed , and seeing for the first time that his shirt was undone almost to the waist , revealing his broad , muscular chest with its lavish covering of silky golden hair . |
| 59 | Our confidence thus bolstered , we were now stepping eagerly out of the tent bound for Ancohuma . |
| 60 | Went to the Country Dancing Club , used to go all over to the Country Dances |