Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was right , a fire watcher came in saying that there was a stick of small unexploded bombs right down the Palace Road but that the junction of Munster and Dawes Road had had a hundred pounder and houses had gone . |
| 2 | He decided to attack right down the landing path , diving from behind them , and he nudged his throbbing aircraft slightly to one side . |
| 3 | The northern ( and earlier ) approach was by passes across the Ural mountains to the lower reaches of the river Obn and thence down the Ob Gulf by boat to the mouth of the Tazn which was ascended as far as a portage to the lower Yenisei ; from there they followed an eastward course up the Lower Tunguska river , crossing a portage to the Vilyui and so to the Lena . |
| 4 | Nothing for it but to go back the way you came , to Neu St Johann , thence down the Toggenburg valley through the resorts of Nesslau and Ebnat-Kappel to Wattwil . |
| 5 | An unshaded fitting glared weakly down the cellar steps . |
| 6 | He is carried slowly down the centre aisle upon a cushioned palanquin , borne upon the naked shoulders of four local May Queens . |
| 7 | Barney explained the intricacies of the pre-selector gearbox , after which Julie engaged first gear and , with a slight jolt , moved the big car slowly down the station drive . |
| 8 | The plane dropped a wing towards Brooklyn and the dark water of Jamaica Bay and nosed gently down the traffic pattern of Kennedy Airport . |
| 9 | Now the school bus , full of disappointed kids , wends it 's way twice daily down a country lane lined with equally disappointed farmers who stare wistfully into the distance , recalling the heady days of four-legged Formula 1 racing ! |
| 10 | Russell Telford , 29 , stayed halfway down a pit shaft for nine hours after threatening a lift operator at Markham Main colliery , South Yorkshire . |
| 11 | I REMEMBER once seeing a small girl remove a tin of soup from halfway down a display stack in a supermarket . |
| 12 | The rest of us saw the year in in a hut halfway down the Greenstone valley ; the warden brewed her own beer , and brought us generous supplies of it ! |
| 13 | He slid down from the pill-box and sat in the high grass , halfway down the canal bank . |
| 14 | ‘ But me an' yer muvver always used ter be goin' out when we were younger , even if it was only up the Kings Arms on Saturday nights . |
| 15 | Then , as the rain cleared , the moon shone out to reveal what they had feared : one hundred and thirty tall-masted galleons , in perfect crescent formation , sailed slowly but purposefully up the channel coast . |
| 16 | With great courage she fought her way past Forgive 'N Forget , but halfway up the run-in Wayward Lad was still two lengths up . |
| 17 | By late afternoon they were more than halfway up the Exit Cracks . |
| 18 | The soot would be everywhere — halfway up the tunnel sides , but mostly on me , and certainly none where it was intended . |
| 19 | In a white exclusive bedroom , halfway up the Butcher Building . |
| 20 | Four guylines are attached halfway up the pole sleeve to storm-lash the tent — great for very high winds . |
| 21 | If Balliol was already down a back stair , he could mingle with this crowd of panic-stricken servants and nowise stand out , in his shirt and breeches , since others were in approximately the same state . |
| 22 | The resistance was broken when a tiring Ratnayeke was superbly caught by the wicketkeeper Ian Healy , one-handed down the leg side , for 75 after flicking once too often at Greg Campbell . |
| 23 | The painting is awkwardly and laxly structured but now the contours of many of the compositional elements have been freely and insistently opened up into each other so that the eye is led quickly not only into depth but also steeply up the picture surface , a premonition of things to come . |
| 24 | We 'd drink in The Roebuck , just up the Kings Road from the shop every Saturday straight after work . |
| 25 | Then the tight cysts , not unlike Maggie 's soap egg , glued onto the reed stalks , and swelling , swelling , splitting until finally the pictures captured the moment when the dragonfly broke from the chrysalis , crawled desperately up the reed stem and unfolded its glorious wings in the sunshine , spreading them out to harden , to firm up , to set , to grow strong . |
| 26 | ‘ Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change , ’ wrote Tennyson , somewhat later , catching the romance and enthusiasm exactly but getting the detail of his metaphor badly wrong . |
| 27 | E. A little further down the Don valley at Rotherham there are blast furnaces , changing iron ore into pig iron , and also more steel mills . |
| 28 | Consequently , pseudo-costs can be calculated early in the solution and used to estimate and at nodes further down the enumeration tree . |
| 29 | Further down the water course came Snugborough Mill . |
| 30 | 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 . |