Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If pushed , it will reluctantly and rather crossly waddle down the beach and take refuge in the sea . |
| 2 | It is in the myth of Odysseus that they most poignantly figure out the tragic paralysis of the dialectic , and , by extension , the quandary of cultural critique : to steer past the temptations of the Sirens whose fatal song can not be resisted , Odysseus stuffs his men 's ears with wax so that they will not be distracted from their rowing , and binds himself to the mast with orders that he must not be released . |
| 3 | The Vatican declaration furthermore expressly rules out the objection that , in the eucharist , it is the risen Christ who is represented ; and that as such he has no sex . |
| 4 | Overtaking needs a bit more planning , but for those who have long since given up the chase and opted for a more dignified life , this is a lot of car for the money plus a BMW badge to ride behind . |
| 5 | Sadly , the bar had closed and the staff had long since departed so the celebration pint of bitter had to be put on ice for another day . |
| 6 | And what pride she had , that transcended her meagre purse and the threadbare pelisse that so little kept out the winter cold that she still wore it inside the house , and had been obliged to come down from her room to seek a little warmth from the dying fire . |
| 7 | That ‘ inwardness ’ so prized by some English readers , and characteristically found by them ( implausibly ) in Lawrence , is an attention directed so far ‘ inward , that it can never come to the surface for long enough to notice how the sunlight breaks upon the edges and volumes of a piece of sculpture ; and that is why indeed such readers can not use the word ‘ aesthetic ’ except ‘ in a limiting sense ’ . |
| 8 | That development entailed a recognition that the concentration upon language by the school of logical positivism , within which Ayer 's dismissal of religious belief emerged , might not so much show up the meaninglessness of theology as elicit its own particular logic Wittgenstein 's thought appears to show a progression from concentrating upon language in order to exclude certain forms of thought — as in Ayer 's exclusion of metaphysics — towards concentrating upon language in order to make sense of those different forms in a way that was sensitive to their particular nature . |
| 9 | So generally speaking then the children were taught to swim when they were little ? |
| 10 | Not all the personal pronouns in the Sonnets , of course , are significant of personal relationships , and for this reason it is not enough just to tot up the figures in a computer-made concordance . |
| 11 | A more equivocal comment that perhaps best sums up the evaluations that led to RCA has been made by Timmons ( 1980 ) : ‘ While these measures [ in soil conservation ] have seldom attained goals , increases in soil erosion were minimised and occasionally soil losses reduced . |
| 12 | There 's the call it 's coming in I knew it would work in fact we 'll talk straight away now just come straight through to me O nine O four six four one six four one and there 's another one there so just pick up the phone and hear as we sit and talk and chew the fat and stuff like that hello ? |
| 13 | She had wanted so desperately to find out the truth about Luke , but now that was the last thing she wanted to know . |
| 14 | I have only just plucked up the courage to write to you after a year and a half of reading ZZAP ! |
| 15 | The moon was not yet up and in the darkness we could only just make out the rock face of the west bank above us , a cliff some thirty feet high . |
| 16 | We 'd only just put down the phone to them . |
| 17 | I 've only just tidied up the front again last weekend . |
| 18 | He had only just disappeared down the graveyard path and out of sight when the postman arrived at the back gate . |
| 19 | we , we 've only just got out the bath and then she says come on hurry up now |
| 20 | Perhaps the easiest way around this is to make a note of which side you started and only ever turn off the machine when the carriage is on that side . |
| 21 | To Lord John , Sharpe was nothing but a killer who had been trained and hardened to death on innumerable battlefields , while Lord John had only ever brought about the death of foxes . |
| 22 | The French only ever tap out the downbeat , and indicate the others by various movements of the hand to right and left . |
| 23 | So always fill in the day 's workings before you leave for home , taking special care that there are no holes or pitfalls you have created into which livestock can stray and suffer injury . |
| 24 | Despite the fact that the navy will now need a new aircraft of some sort to fill the gap until a brand-new attack machine , so far called only the AX , can be produced , the outlook for Grumman is bleak . |
| 25 | The nerves on the first night at Taunton had been bad ; so had the understudy nerves of the first night at the Variety ; but they were nothing to the sheer blind terror that attended Charles Paris as he waited to go on stage in the role in which Michael Banks 's career had been so tragically cut short the night before . |
| 26 | Well , I I was fairly new in the company myself so I had n't worked for his father for long before took over the managership or chairmanship or whatever he is , so I I 'm really not too sure about the whole thing but certainly for a quarry manager or quarry director or owner , he did n't really know the slate as well as the workers , and he was expecting things out of his workers and the slate , the product , that were really just not on . |
| 27 | While carrying out research for my book , Our Treacherous Hearts : Why Women Let Men Get Their Way ( Faber & Faber , £14.99 ) , I found that men are not only often let off the hook by women , but are actively ‘ idealised ’ by them . |
| 28 | It is thus that ‘ national liberation ’ , or the breakaway movements , so often take on the colour and rhetoric of the group they see as dominating them . |
| 29 | He made very few mistakes and so often picked out the right line on the greens , lines which at the time I doubted , that I left the decisions to him . ’ |
| 30 | If so please fill in the form at the bottom ! |