Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Her thoughts taking flight , Luce found they had stopped halfway down a bare stone corridor . |
| 4 | Who could say if Margaret was not better off a young widow , able yet to make a humbler and happier match ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mait limped painfully down a connecting gallery , desperately clinging on to the enhancer , which was getting heavier with every passing moment . |
| 9 | Most countries ( including Germany and Britain ) broadly back a French model that resembles the façade of a Greek temple . |
| 10 | Depending on what type of dust it is , it just might short out a vital area of the motherboard . |
| 11 | Jezrael dragged herself wearily up a nearby pinnacle , hoping to climb above the billowing mist so she could see something . |
| 12 | Although I 'm sure the article was of great interest to guitarists and bassists alike , I would like to set the record straight on a few points . |
| 13 | The Brotherhood has immense economic power which was at first based on its control of the ground-nut trade but later on a diversified portfolio of business interests , many of them urban . |
| 14 | The animosity towards Docherty resurfaced years later on a memorable episode of the BBC chat show Wogan , when a clearly drunken George Best outlined his reasons for leaving Old Trafford . |
| 15 | Immediately after a semi-derelict farmhouse we turned left through a gate and headed straight up a stony track to Rudland Rigg . |
| 16 | After an hour on the flat we stood on an old snow patch at the foot of the Plaret cascades and looked straight up a perfect glacier valley to the hut , and beyond the Promontoire hut , glinting in the afternoon light , high on a southerly arm of La Meije . |
| 17 | Relaxed and complacent , we headed our way out of the pub and down to a dip — then straight up a ferocious bank turning right at a junction in the road , signposted to Dale End . |
| 18 | There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’ |
| 19 | This involves going as far down a single path as possible . |
| 20 | To reach the glacier you have to walk through a tunnel , then down a narrow ridge with Death on one side and a very steep drop on the other . |
| 21 | So he and his rider galloped up a long hill and then down a longer hill and then up another hill and so on without a break for eight exhausting miles , and the more his rider puffed and gasped for breath , the more he enjoyed himself and the faster he went ! |
| 22 | And when you get to er to the landing you turn it round through forty five degrees and then down a little bit further and eventually you tip it over to go down the stairs . |
| 23 | The immense dumbbell-shape drew closer , almost languidly there out a wide-focus tractor beam , and anchored our two ships together . |
| 24 | A few people were already astir in the first village they passed through , and when they reached the piazza in Pontino higher up a huddled group stood within the light and warmth of the doorway of the Bar Italia waiting for the first bus down to Florence . |
| 25 | The Captain ran a finger lightly down a black silk sleeve . |