Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Right down the other end of the pipe , please , ’ said Gurder .
2 From the board powers are frequently delegated to committees of directors or to individual board members , and thence down the managerial hierarchy .
3 They drove slowly down a narrow asphalt drive between the southern wall of the church and the railing bordering the canal , but still there was no sign of life .
4 The hours slid slowly down the great entropy slope of the universe .
5 When her aunt was dressed she walked slowly down the narrow staircase in front of her in case , in her weak state , she should stumble .
6 But now let us climb slowly down the stratigraphical column to see what other widespread facies we can find .
7 Toy trucks moved between hangars ; a minute tractor drove slowly down the main runway .
8 A ship was moving slowly down the main channel , its engines throbbing in the stillness .
9 He peered uneasily down the dark tunnel at the end of the platform and remembered something else from their past : Mother Bernie and her holes in the universe , the holes that let the Evil in .
10 Over in Ireland , BOB DYLAN got his collar felt last week when a hotel security guard accosted him as he crept stealthily down a little-used fire escape .
11 So down the wide staircase she goes , past the oak chest with its bowl of white roses on the half-landing , past the Albers squares , past the dim varnished portrait of a full-bosomed crimson gowned pearl-decked eighteenth-century woman who some take to be an ancestor , though she had in fact come with the house , down through the black and white tiled hall with its marble and gilt claw-legged table strewn with Christmas cards , gloves , and glossy free advertising magazines , and into the broad high first floor drawing-room , where sat Charles , drinking a gin and tonic , which she had expected , and talking to Esther and Alix , which she had not .
12 In practice , it is possible to send a single digitally encoded TV channel only down an optical fibre .
13 It is the same all down the Welsh border , from Cheshire down to the Severn , and thence across the Severn to the three south-western counties of Somerset , Devon and Cornwall .
14 I ran my hand gently down the bumpy back .
15 Flames licked over the straw , which crackled and flared , and the Wheel was clear of the ramp and bowling gently down the cleared path .
16 The mix is pumped gently down the inner tube , out through the bottom and up the outer tube .
17 He marched purposefully down the central aisle of the ward until he found the sister .
18 Her thoughts taking flight , Luce found they had stopped halfway down a bare stone corridor .
19 She remembered halfway down the rickety ladder stairs , but for would have been a final indignity .
20 She and Ethel were halfway down the next flight of stairs when they were suddenly joined by Bryce .
21 Johnson 's account pauses at the Fall of Fiers , today called Foyers , a little more than halfway down the south-eastern length of the Loch .
22 Who could say if Margaret was not better off a young widow , able yet to make a humbler and happier match ?
23 But Baldersdale does have one extra visual blessing rarely seen in the Dales — water , Hury Reservoir was built a century or so ago and it stretches sinuously up a major portion of the valley .
24 ( This makes it hard to draw any line between old and ‘ new ’ , i.e. post-Periclean , politicians in terms of social standing ; similarly we now know that the later and much-vilified demagogue Kleophon was the son of a man high enough up the social ladder to have served as a general : ML 21 . )
25 The caves of Postojna and Škocjan are notable tourist attractions , and there is even a castle , Predjamski Grad , built into the mouth of a cave halfway up a sheer limestone cliff , to which access can be gained by way of a labyrinth of underground passages .
26 Four Australians , for example , above a road to Three Spurs and halfway Up a steep hillside , once knocked out most of the men in the first of two trucks passing below the patrol .
27 It was Mama , though , who wore it in the painting halfway up the great staircase — so that all who passed by could see it and admire .
28 To get ahead of the teams and join them halfway up the 12,000 foot mountain , Fusil flew a few journalists over the forest canopy just a few feet above the top of the trees .
29 She paused halfway up the second flight to hear whether anyone was following , but all she heard was the sound of a door below opening and the voices of Joseph , Maurin and Barbara Coleman going into the flat .
30 He was halfway up the final flight when he heard the voiders ' whistle in the street outside , its piercing din unmistakable .
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