Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it 's all there , complete with toilet paper , which you use and then deftly wind back on to the roll . |
| 2 | Jack eventually got up just before dawn , and went to the window . |
| 3 | But the famous scene of greedy eating in Tom Jones ( 1963 ) , in which Tom ( Albert Finney ) and Mrs Waters , aka Jenny Jones ( Joyce Redman ) — who may be his mother but luckily turns out not to be — rush through a huge meal in order to get to bed and ‘ devour ’ each other , actually replaces the sex scene which it appears to be prefacing . |
| 4 | Nicola sat down on the floor and slowly rolled over on to her back . |
| 5 | He was rather looked down on by the Trebetherick set . |
| 6 | It was thought extremely clever tactics when one team pretended not to be taking part in a tournament , and only joined in late in the day when all the other knights who had been fighting since soon after sunrise were exhausted . |
| 7 | Only everything 's been so buggered up today in general … , ’ |
| 8 | He stood for a minute or so gazing down expressionlessly at the pale , bloodless face of the Prophet . |
| 9 | Mr Gandhi has an election coming up and a big one-day cricket tournament not only goes down well with the electorate , but also goes a long way towards providing a short-term solution to the unemployment problem . |
| 10 | I thought I 'd better come round today in a bit more positive mood . |
| 11 | So this morning the fat little chap in the long white coat who was sorting us out in the Dean 's Office said I 'd better come along here for a few days until they got me organized with another partner . |
| 12 | Rather , as in social anthropology , it is possible to develop a dynamic model in which the student begins from the acute self-consciousness that his or her own concepts may be culture-specific at depths so far unexamined , and so starts out tentatively from them , being ready to revise them in the light of new ethnography . |
| 13 | The clock face is painted white and so stands out clearly from quite a distance , allowing the time to be easily read . |
| 14 | One of its most important decisions for dog welfare — changes in litter registration to make puppy farming more difficult — I only found out about by chance ! |
| 15 | She held the tip of it just inside her pouting snatch , and only sank down on to it when she saw the door opening . |
| 16 | ‘ It might be hard , ’ she said , ‘ but better to find out now about Tom than later . ’ |
| 17 | But erm I was er somewhat put off altogether by comments I heard from people who had been in much closer contact than I was because I , I saw him very little of him really . |
| 18 | ‘ Not much wandering off above in the convent . ’ |
| 19 | Aye , they only came in the su they only came up here in the summer . |
| 20 | Do n't forget , we only came down here for a drink . |
| 21 | South Shields , St Helens and Birkenhead all shot up quickly during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | Periodically the ship had literally sailed up on to the tug , ramming her bows against the stern , and finally the towing hawser had ripped out the capstan to which it was fastened . |
| 23 | They 'd all grown up together on the same corpy estate , been to the same sink school , gone out with the same dreary lads . |
| 24 | So shop around carefully before investing your cash . |
| 25 | Perhaps going back again to the quality of life , was it a a release valve for the frustration of the places ? |
| 26 | He stopped work long enough to look up directly into her face , then bent his head once more and continued cleaning the skull with neat , precise movements of the knife . |
| 27 | Felt started out 10 years ago and recorded 10 albums before breaking up this week after a final show in their home town , Birmingham , thus concluding the curious master-plan that was apparently drawn up early in their career by the band 's singer and song-writer , who is known simply as Lawrence . |
| 28 | and a balcony big enough to fit out maybe with a table and a parasol . |
| 29 | Reacting against the momentary quality of Impressionism , which had been like a window suddenly opened out on to nature from a sheltered interior , against all forms of violent personal expression , against the decorative and symbolic element which had characterized the work of the Nabis and Gauguin and so much late nineteenth-century painting , and even against the Fauves ( and the strong fin de siècle flavour of Fauvism has never been sufficiently acknowledged or stressed ) , the Cubists saw their paintings as constructed objects having their own independent existence , as small , self-contained worlds , not reflecting the outside world but recreating it in a completely new form . |
| 30 | She pushed past Julie Ndobe , grabbing a medkit from the woman 's hands , and running further into the smoke , only to fetch up hard against a metal barrier . |