Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A puff of wind swung it round on its vane , and snatched a bunch of twigs from its beak and sent them twirling slowly down the steeple to the ground at Carol 's feet , where they sank into the snow . |
| 2 | Philip ran down the bracken bank to the gate and watched him run down the field to Mrs Wright who was walking slowly down the field . |
| 3 | He blinked his pale grey eyes , took a careless look around himself before walking smartly up the driveway to Roirbak 's complex , an array of wafer-thin data cards — the discerning burglar 's equivalent of a crowbar — ready to hand . |
| 4 | what by walking quickly up the kitchen and into the hall . |
| 5 | But he ignored them , leaping straight up the spiral to his father 's room . |
| 6 | Then I started walking back up the field . |
| 7 | Doreen had walked out into the dark hall suddenly , and seen him walking back up the passage away from the kitchen door . |
| 8 | A few moments later they passed Gilberto walking back up the hill to the place where he had left his own car , just below the massive wall of the columbarium in the cemetery where Ruggiero Miletti had been interred two hours previously . |
| 9 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
| 10 | Then he was climbing back up the bank he had slithered down and I watched as he walked in a leisurely fashion across the slope of the mountain to the gully . |
| 11 | The conclusion that there was not going to be any hit him at the same time as Rincewind , whirring wildly down the passage , kicked him sharply in the groin . |
| 12 | In the process she had made a lightning circumnavigation of the British Isles and was now steaming hard down the west coast while we returned by the eastern route . |
| 13 | They were walking steadily up the strath , past Castle Menzies , looking unreal in its composed beauty under early Sunday sunshine , past the close-built cottages and huts of Dull which looked like scree left by a spate , heaped-up boulders , shaggy heather thatch , dykes built recently with field stones and already falling down . |
| 14 | It was sad and harrowing discovery for the Kazakh North-East ridge expedition — winding the clock back a decade to the tragic events of the morning of May 17 , 1982 and two tiny figures climbing steadily up the North-East ridge of Everest . |
| 15 | The organ started to play and Ianthe 's attention was diverted by the entry of the preacher , so that she did not notice John walking quietly up the aisle and slipping into the pew behind her . |
| 16 | Throughout his career he has captured the magic and the frustration of Scottish football , darting arrogantly down the wing in a surge of skill then retreating into a shell of indifference . |
| 17 | His fingers were spanning her tiny waist , smoothing inexorably up the fabric of her bodice , shaping over the curves where her breasts swelled out like ripe melons ready for him to taste . |
| 18 | The next thing I knew I was looking straight up the barrel of this gun because the Fairey Fox was no more than 12ft away from the cabin and the pilot was very annoyed . |
| 19 | It was the sort of weapon that you saw John Wayne wielding so well and twisting round his finger , but I did not like the idea of this thing which I was looking straight up the barrel of . |
| 20 | It is organizationally unidirectional , filtering fitfully up the management hierarchy , irrespective of the extent to which it is attuned to the current preoccupations of senior management . |
| 21 | So I got out the car and I went over and I , turned it down , as it were turning down I saw it was n't pouring just out the tap , it was also pouring from the |
| 22 | She insists that even with the provisions of such a charter the idea ‘ can only work out in reality if both partners , in fact , share [ the childcare ] , because there is not much point in allowing women the opportunity of going further up the ladder if they continue to have almost sole responsibility for childcare . ’ |
| 23 | You know little kids coming out of school and going straight on the road . |
| 24 | Job cuts are already being made and newly-qualified nurses are going straight on the dole . |
| 25 | Delaney tore himself away , going back up the stairway that was the only way out , and back in the direction that the creature was coming . |
| 26 | She stopped a few feet away , so that she was hidden by the curtains , and fixed her gaze unblinkingly on the long black Mercedes that was heading sedately up the driveway . |
| 27 | He ignored Fiver , who was waiting farther down the run . |
| 28 | I was inching carefully down the south bank of Dam Pool , covering every possible lie , when a good trout rose behind me . |
| 29 | Then , at a signal , they began , moving slowly down the estuary , a thin cloud — colourless , like fine powdered snow — drifting down behind them . |
| 30 | Soon one could ignore it , except now and then when the fire seemed to take a huge breath and glowed with a sudden fierceness which sent sparks flying crazily up the chimney . |