Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernice could see Legion 's body splitting into a firework display of multi-coloured fronds , and slowly drawing together into a hairy black ovoid supported by three pipe-cleaner legs . |
| 2 | He rarely veers away from the subject of relationships ( ‘ Go Out And Get 'Em Boy ! ’ , |
| 3 | Our friend from the smoke , vigorously lashing away like a cab driver whipping a lazy horse , caught three . |
| 4 | It is not at all clear , however , whether the addition of the marginal note in the one , and its incorporation in the other , was prompted by new , and supposedly better , information or rather arose simply through a temporary confusion between father and son ( occasioned , perhaps , by something like the confusing apposition of " Mevlana Shams al-Din Fenari-oglu " in the Turan entry corresponding to 840 ) which was then , possibly , perpetuated through inadvertence . |
| 5 | As Speaker O'Neill forcibly pointed out to the newly elected President Carter , tactics that had worked in the relatively sedate politics of Georgia were unlikely to be effective in Washington . |
| 6 | This extraordinary story was ruthlessly edited down to its allotted span and eventually tucked away in the last of four hour-long programmes . |
| 7 | Stay in this position for some time , then slowly sit up through a curved spine — a great way to relax ! |
| 8 | And , yes , I saw the incident at Southampton , where Mark Nicholas was eventually given out to a disputed close catch and then brought back to the crease . |
| 9 | SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone . |
| 10 | That the latter seems to be chosen overwhelmingly testifies not to the existence of coercion , but to careful selection procedures for placing persons in corporate positions coupled with successful methods of persuading them that their interests and the corporation 's interests happily coincide — or at least , that that is the most sensible , pragmatic way of looking at it . |
| 11 | Diniz also had stayed , and had found his way out into the yard , and the broken pillars of the loggia , where he had found somewhere to sit out of the wind . |
| 12 | The man nodded and smiled all over again — rather encouragingly , this time — and then , smiling in a somewhat more valedictory sort of way , edged slowly back out through the door . |
| 13 | Not only did it fail to achieve representation ( not surprising at under 1 per cent of the vote ) but it has since fallen apart in a long series of internecine conflicts ( which are too complex to describe here ) . |
| 14 | Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time . |
| 15 | Bakker also argued that the brontosaur footprints found in the 1930s in the Cretaceous Texas limestone showed left and right footprints close to the trackway centreline , hinting that they walked upright . |
| 16 | The Infinite Wheel present four UK harmonised house cuts loosely gathered together under the same title , the ‘ Dream Of Dreams ’ mix holding the dancefloor tactics whilst the epic and trippy ‘ Big Blue Mix ’ and ‘ Bay Of Rainbows ’ melt into each other to create a floaty yet still club-viable waxing . |
| 17 | ‘ He very rarely goes out in the evenings . ’ |
| 18 | Slowly struggling up from the depths of deep unconsciousness , Laura flicked open her eyelids , only to shut them firmly again as she winced at the brilliant sunshine flooding in through the windows of the bedroom . |
| 19 | Do you remember when as a child you would stand transfixed , gazing up at the grandfather clock , with your little heart beating faster and faster as the minute hand slowly crept up to the hour when suddenly , with magical ringing chimes it burst into life . |
| 20 | Now empty , decay and neglect are slowly eating away at the building 's fabric . |
| 21 | If you want to get in close enough to see the detail of his beautiful body markings , you wo n't be able to include much of his neck which will be mostly sticking out through the top of the frame . |
| 22 | On Aug. 8 the British hostage John McCarthy was released in Beirut ; he was swiftly transported to the Syrian capital , Damascus , and thence flown back to the United Kingdom . |
| 23 | The material being drilled is effectively broken up by the drill bit , and the rotary action of the drill bit is primarily to remove debris from the hole . |
| 24 | Right sit up on the chair and we 'll read the story of the jumble sale . |
| 25 | Activists are illegally dismissed , strikes are forcibly broken up by the army or police and many unionists have been killed . |
| 26 | It may paper over things and succeed in buying time , but it can not overcome the class-based conflicts that will eventually bubble up to the surface . |
| 27 | The control panel is discreetly tucked away on the front and is totally invisible when the spa is in use . |
| 28 | Eventually Helen spotted a reception desk , discreetly tucked away behind a large weeping fig ; they advanced across wastes of polished marble and were directed to a lift . |
| 29 | A small friendly old pub pleasantly furnished and discreetly tucked away behind The Scotsman office . |
| 30 | ESC founders Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington director and star of the Shakespeare tragedy say they would rather stay away from the Civic , one of the strongest dates on their world tours , than face the same problem again . |