Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , the book is limited to those media which most absorbed people 's attention in the post-war era , and which met most fully the criteria of a mass medium — television , radio and newspapers . |
| 2 | But everywhere else — equally in the madrigal , chanson , and German polyphonic Lied , in the music of the Roman Church , Lutheran hymn , and Calvinist psalm note-against-note writing , in chords rather than contrapuntal lines , met most fully the demand for verbal clarity . |
| 3 | Lloyd George and Kitchener have their biographies ; yet those who experienced most directly the turmoil , disruption and loss of the war have their information locked within their memory . |
| 4 | When several of us got down there the CO informed us that we had to fly down the Gulf to look for an Imperial Airways airliner , one of those Armstrong Whitworth Argosys which was named City of Glasgow , and had been overdue for sometime . |
| 5 | The British felt very confident of their position at sea ; to reinforce the strength of their blockage they laid down unilaterally the rule of 1756 that neutrals could not take advantage of wartime conditions to enter upon trade that would not have been allowed in peacetime . |
| 6 | Roirbak bundled Tammuz into the elevator and they rode halfway up the building in silence until Tammuz said : ‘ I ca n't believe this ! ’ |
| 7 | This probably corresponds to location of the metal binding domain over the scissile bond , with the bithiazole and terminal amine aligned in either the 3'- or 5'- direction . |
| 8 | London became much more the capital of England and a centre of culture , of elegant houses and ‘ conspicuous consumption ’ . |
| 9 | Charles wandered slowly up the village street in search of his valise . |
| 10 | A few minutes after eight , as they watched , a black flag moved slowly up the post . |
| 11 | She moved stealthily down the hall to the kitchen , her hearing sharpened by fear as she strained to detect even the slightest movement in the old house . |
| 12 | FREEZING snow whipped our faces as we peered nervously down the slope . |
| 13 | But British Telecom Mobile Communications is introducing a transatlantic paging service based on frequency-hopping technology — the first on which the same pager can used in either the UK or the US . |
| 14 | If you think of the variety of commercials you see on TV , there are many different things you can do in commercials : animation ; live action , used in perhaps the majority of commercials ; puppetry ; mixed live action and animation ; computer graphics and picture modification ; a variety of special effects . |
| 15 | But ahortly after the heavens opened and the river level rose so high the work had to be abandoned . |
| 16 | To take just one example : people still grossly underestimate the size of the language 's vocabulary — the most widely quoted figure is half a million words or so — an estimate based on the total headwords found in either the OED or Webster 's Third New International , which each contains around that number . |
| 17 | I have no recollection of how I found my way there in the dark , but I do remember having to knock up the concièrge , who grumbled in just the style portrayed in the cinema . |
| 18 | He stopped halfway down the passage , whirling about to meet her . |
| 19 | He moved swiftly down the line of the wall , slowing as he neared its end . |
| 20 | They said the light moved in just the way this one seemed to be doing . |
| 21 | The range of products previously tried on the current leg ulcer demonstrated not only the unsuitability of one product through every stage of healing , but also the frustration experienced by some nurses desperate to find the right product for a particular patient . |
| 22 | Throughout 1932 and 1933 he retained not only the position of Prime Minister but most of the prerogatives of the office as well . |
| 23 | His dustjackets for John Lehmann remain the most impressive , chiefly because in most cases Minton designed not only the image but also the lettering , the title , author 's name and publisher 's imprint appearing in his own seemingly casual but richly decorative script . |
| 24 | He designed not only the house , but also the garden , and all the furnishings and fittings . |
| 25 | If the terms of Bell 's inequality are calculated from the composite wave function I mentioned above then the inequality is found to be violated ; on the other hand , it is always satisfied for wave functions that are simple products . |
| 26 | Ian Cannell , appeal chairman , emphasised that the sale of poppies helped not only the veterans of the First and Second World Wars , but those that took part in more recent campaigns . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh that we regarded not only the God who governs the stars , but the God of minute providences — the Overruler of moments ! |
| 28 | This changed not only the nature of provision for young children , but also the use made of residential care and the patterns of referral to it . |
| 29 | Anyway , we did n't have much luck in the hollow either , so we moved further up the field . |
| 30 | It was not far enough , as there was still downward straggle , so we moved further up the ladder to cubes . |