Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His powerful trunk and huge belly filled the chair and the yellow cattleman 's boots were laced halfway up the stout legs . |
| 2 | The sun had moved behind the rooftops and it cast shadows halfway up the little houses on the opposite side of the turning . |
| 3 | A narrow track wound steeply up the lower slopes through dense forest , and then areas of bamboo and giant heather . |
| 4 | The Founders and other people within NoS kept up the pressure to go even further down the Equal Opportunities road . |
| 5 | F. Further down the main valleys the rivers have become larger ( 3rd and 4th Order ) . |
| 6 | But on the eastern margin it keeps its own counsel : instead of heading out to sea to follow the line of the Easter Island Ridge , this Pacific Ocean boundary stretches ( with only three minor hiccups ) directly down the American coasts , from Attu Island in the Aleutians to Diego Ramirez Island off Cape Horn . |
| 7 | Deciding against riding the lift back down , she walked to the stairs , and ran quickly down the eight flights . |
| 8 | Then , with two Arabs pushing him and two pulling , he was bundled slowly up the high stones of the Pyramid to the summit . |
| 9 | Alida slid the blue crocheted sleeves deftly up the stick-thin arms . |
| 10 | In the big retail market which opens later on the combined scents of ripe peaches and the fresh basil and thyme plants lying in heaps on the ground gave us our first sniff of Provence . |
| 11 | Later on the 40 pins will reveal themselves to be tiny light bulbs . |
| 12 | The folds in the return maps prevent the relatively simple analysis of the strange attractor from remaining true , since points which are separated by the expansion in one direction can , if they are later on the opposite sides of the fold in the map , be forced back together again by the contraction in the other direction . |
| 13 | United looked like traffic controllers , directing the flow straight down the arterial routes towards Swindon 's goal . |
| 14 | Birds were always with them ; robins watched with bright eyes and sang as they passed ; wrens flew suddenly and low from branch to bush ; great tits rang out their bell-notes unseen from the tree-tops ; tree-creepers trickled headlong and caterwise down the creviced trunks of the oaks ; woodpeckers kept up a constant drum-rattle on the hollow branches , the sound coming now from the right , now from the left , now in front , now behind ; wood-pigeons wooed one another in secret leafy recesses , comforting , encouraging , cajoling ; rooks sprang upwards cawing into the blue sky as they passed beneath their nests ; and higher still , up towards the sun , they caught occasional glimpses of great birds circling , buzzards , kites , eagles . |
| 15 | Moraine boulders were piled in rounded heaps and we walked inland through tufted heaps of tussac grass , climbing well up the scree-covered slopes to picnic in a spot where we had a magnificent view of the Strait and the channels and islands further west . |
| 16 | The period from 28 December 1694 until 12 February 1695 , is known as 6 William III , and from then on the normal conventions applied . |
| 17 | The tusks branched , one limb reaching up to the leafy mass on the head , the other reaching down , becoming tendrillar , tendrils curling round the torso and the arms , then down the spindly legs , supplying lobate oak-leaves as a covering for the scored , scoured , bark-like flesh below . |
| 18 | They galloped down the rest of the long gentle ride to the river , across a wooden bridge , and then up the grassy slopes to the terraces below the house . |
| 19 | She closed the door after her no less gently and purposefully than he had done , and snatching off her shoes , ran silently up the two flights of stairs to her own room . |
| 20 | I throw on my overcoat and step into the pitch-black hall , take off my shoes and start to trot quietly down the twenty-two flights of steps . |
| 21 | The dead king seems mesmerized by them as they lead him gently but determinedly down the long ramps . |