Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 4500km of roads , four towns , an airport , railway , a port , schools and hospitals were built , the pulp mill came from Japan and was floated thence up the Amazon . |
| 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 | Grip lashes with the curlers as close to the roots as possible and hold for five seconds , then repeat halfway down the lashes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Roirbak bundled Tammuz into the elevator and they rode halfway up the building in silence until Tammuz said : ‘ I ca n't believe this ! ’ |
| 6 | Charles wandered slowly up the village street in search of his valise . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I shall have flown into who knows whose airport , or I 'll be sleeping on a ship steaming slowly out the English Channel , or I 'll be dead and rigid on a lonely piece of ground . |
| 9 | A few minutes after eight , as they watched , a black flag moved slowly up the post . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He is carried slowly down the centre aisle upon a cushioned palanquin , borne upon the naked shoulders of four local May Queens . |
| 12 | FREEZING snow whipped our faces as we peered nervously down the slope . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He stopped halfway down the passage , whirling about to meet her . |
| 15 | He moved swiftly down the line of the wall , slowing as he neared its end . |
| 16 | Anyway , we did n't have much luck in the hollow either , so we moved further up the field . |
| 17 | It was not far enough , as there was still downward straggle , so we moved further up the ladder to cubes . |
| 18 | They paused a moment longer , then moved further down the gallery , inspecting each exhibit , checking any books which could be the hidden Grimoire . |
| 19 | Cram 's club-mate David Sharpe , looking for an 800 metres time inside 1 min 46.2 secs , moved further down the pecking order in the two-lap event after quick times by two of his rivals in Dijon : Wolverhampton 's Steve Heard , who was third in 1 mins 45.65 secs , and Haringey 's David Strang , fourth in 1:45.85 . |
| 20 | The mongrel tore savagely at the newspapers and the rat fled further down the alley , desperate for sanctuary . |
| 21 | This is a very painful condition , and there is a risk that the seed responsible may track further up the leg . |
| 22 | He blinked his pale grey eyes , took a careless look around himself before walking smartly up the driveway to Roirbak 's complex , an array of wafer-thin data cards — the discerning burglar 's equivalent of a crowbar — ready to hand . |
| 23 | The revolutions in Eastern Europe in 1989 have secured freedom of speech and may cause the UK to slip further down the league table . |
| 24 | what by walking quickly up the kitchen and into the hall . |
| 25 | But she has gone ; and they fly pell-mell up the hedgerow , frisking , chattering and perching where they will . |
| 26 | Skillfully , Gerrard maneuvered the microphone away from her and moved quickly up the aisle to the back of the audience ; and the camera , pushed by a sweating man in a stained white shirt , followed him . |
| 27 | Nevertheless he moved quickly down the corridors — shabby , ill-lit alleyways which , even at this early hour , were busy — knowing that every minute brought closer the chance of Herrick being warned . |
| 28 | But he ignored them , leaping straight up the spiral to his father 's room . |
| 29 | Maxim touched George 's arm and they moved carefully down the slope and well upstream from the farm stepped into the stinging cold water . |
| 30 | One of the Twins appeared , climbing languidly down the poles of some scaffolding . |