Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barak instinctively stuffed them back into his pocket then rubbed his hands together nervously . |
| 2 | But he survived his brush with death and eventually made it back to an English hospital . |
| 3 | I swing round slowly , slowly , and slowly level it to aim at the spider , slowly push it forward against the pull of the concertina pipe behind . |
| 4 | Ormanroyd wins the header Speedy flicks it on again and Chettle er Chettle rather got it away as Jochim came in on him . |
| 5 | And then , so gently that she was hardly aware of what was happening — as if she was merely swaying with the tide — he gradually pulled her towards the shore , slowly drawing her up against the bare , damp skin of his broad chest . |
| 6 | Turning down ‘ loads of really tacky telly ’ , he decided he 'd rather slog it out on the alternative circuit than settle for being the new Bobby Davro . |
| 7 | I tried to keep my feelings under control and remember that all these people were mostly helping us out of the goodness of their hearts , but sometimes it was difficult . |
| 8 | Exposed to Minton 's freewheeling , glamorous Bohemianism , some found it difficult afterwards to stand on their own feet , for Minton had effectively broken them away from their backgrounds or their jobs . |
| 9 | Worse still , an injury kept Sure Sharp idle for the rest of his second season and it was only last year that Hills eventually got him back into action . |
| 10 | ‘ A well-paid job , a pretty girl or a desirable residence may each be located only five minutes away and yet be effectively inaccessible because one 's inadequate skills , social talents or incomes effectively place them out of bounds … . ’ |
| 11 | My Department is providing £200,000 this financial year to motor projects dealing with young offenders , thereby keeping them out of custody . |
| 12 | It was hardly a secret that Gallieni , no admirer of Joffre ( who , among other things , had stolen much of the honour due to Gallieni for the victory of the Marne ) , wanted eventually to pull him back to Paris in the largely administrative capacity of a CIGS , while placing the executive command of the armies in the field under de Castelnau . |
| 13 | I did not dare move , and yet I did : I put my hand on his thigh , and slowly moved it up towards the centre of my desire . |
| 14 | The danger , as Andrei Gavrilov hints at elsewhere in this issue , is that the large emigration of musicians to the West that has taken place since restrictions were relaxed may mean that Russian musical life will lose those very qualities that not only made it technically of such high standing but that also gave it its unique flavour . |
| 15 | She had obviously forgiven him now for all those cruel but necessary things he had said when he dropped her the year before . |
| 16 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support , and I hope that when my nest book is published they will feel confident enough to treat me just as a novelist and not as a problem . ’ |
| 17 | We shall think that it defies a physical law if we are naive enough to treat it simply as a structureless lump of matter with a certain mass and wind resistance . |
| 18 | Through the Lousadas Minton was to an extent drawn into a Hammersmith circle of artists which included Victor Pasmore , Julian Trevelyan and Mary Fedden who once danced with Minton at a New Year 's Eve party until she literally dropped , whereupon he gently laid her down on the floor . |
| 19 | There they gently laid it down on top of the so-centimetre mark at the middle of the tape measure . |
| 20 | So bringing you back to after the war , er how did the business continue er then or for , from that time forward ? |
| 21 | Ross had taken her home , gently helping her out of the taxi and escorting her to the front door . |
| 22 | It is beginning to be recognised that proficiency in more than one language often carries with it the need to be what one might term ‘ crosslingual ’ , that is , able to generate connections across languages rather than only using them independently of each other . |
| 23 | You build up a frightening picture of an immensely long , empty passage of time , only to cancel it out with your last breath , leaving your audience thoroughly confused , but clinging to the idea that eternity is ‘ like ’ a great length of time . ’ |
| 24 | What happens if , as you move in close to grab his arm , he suddenly kicks you hard in the groin , and then stabs you as you double over in agony ? |
| 25 | It should be noted that , despite the historical primacy of arithmetic calculation as the raison d'etre for computers , we ought perhaps to see them instead as symbol-processing devices . |
| 26 | It will not only knock us around on the slightest whim ; but because of its size as a mature horse , it may become dangerous for us and others to handle . |
| 27 | But she did not speak the words , only whispered them despairingly inside her head . |
| 28 | So I thought I 'd better deliver her back to her husband . |
| 29 | Presently she said , ‘ Now I must n't keep you , I only sought you out in your lair because this benighted village boasts no telephone , one has to be one 's own messenger — well , as they say , on est jamais mieux servi que par soi-même . |
| 30 | This tip obviously got you out of a tangle Meryl , but have you read about a new and useful low cost knitting accessory which is now available from Jacpacs ? |