Example sentences of "[coord] [adv prt] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1935 the maximum production for Champagne was set at 50 hectolitres per hectare which could be annually modified by a special commission up or down to suit the specific conditions of the harvest . |
| 2 | If there is more information than can be displayed on the page at any one time , the lines can be ‘ scrolled ’ up or down to access the hidden information . |
| 3 | With action as unpredictable as this is likely to be , and since you wo n't want to risk missing anything vital , you will probably opt for longish takes and let the mobility of the camera and the occasional zoom in or out provide the visual variety to help the sequence along . |
| 4 | I frightened the cat and down dropped the little bird ; it was bleeding from the beak and did not move except its legs in a spasm of pain . |
| 5 | As we settled ourselves , the boardroom door opened and in came the stocky figure of a man I had met , in quite different circumstances , a couple of weeks before . |
| 6 | There was a short lull following this exchange , and then the door opened and in stepped the young man who had bought the mice and the toffee a few days ago . |
| 7 | The class started , and I was in the middle of reading aloud a prose passage from Galdós when the door opened and in walked the fair-haired god I had glimpsed in the gallery . |
| 8 | Those aged 75 years and over use the whole gamut of health and personal social services more than do younger people , and both usage and need increase with age thereafter . |
| 9 | Dress in ‘ bad taste ’ was the order of the day at Key Street and out came the psychedelic shirts , hideous trousers , flower power shorts , multi-coloured spotted nightshirts , loud ties and luminous tights , complete with resplendent ankle socks . |
| 10 | Our lorry stopped outside one of the marquees and out strode the portly figure of C.Q.M.S. Gerry Ward , who was eventually to become our quartermaster . |
| 11 | Its segments open , and out drop the fertilised fully-provisioned eggs — seeds — which if necessary can wait for years before moisture penetrates them and stimulates them to spring to life . |
| 12 | Cornish celebrities of his acquaintance included John Couch Adams , discoverer of the planet Neptune , and Mary Kelynack , renowned as the lady who , at the age of eighty , walked from Newlyn to London and back to see the Great Exhibition of 1851 . |