Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Lescun , the valley of the Aspe grows increasingly tight and stony , a forbidding landscape well epitomized by the manmade fortress of Le Portalet , built high up in the cliffs on the left just before you come to the final French village of Urdos . |
| 2 | I think you mentioned earlier on in the meeting that some authorities have n't taken advantage of European money and we do n't want to fall into that trap . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's dead — dropped right down in the middle of the cake-tasting . |
| 4 | It seemed all over in the 63rd minute when Clough , a few yards outside the penalty area , volleyed a headed clearance instantly into the roof of the net before Hardwick could move a muscle . |
| 5 | When I woke up back in the war , I could feel the difference at once . |
| 6 | She said , ‘ If you came earlier on in the alphabet you could have stayed there . |
| 7 | The general and flexible nature of the framework ensures that no design decisions made early on in the course of development are irrevocable at a later date . |
| 8 | She did not fire when I asked her to go with the winner and faded right out in the last furlong , ’ said disappointed rider Frankie Dettori . |
| 9 | I am glad now she did lose her budgie — and find it — because if she had n't she would n't have seen my puppy trapped right down in the hollow tree . |
| 10 | His uncle turned stiffly round in the chair . |
| 11 | I glanced quickly about in the gloom , and then back to those distant , utterly silent towers of flickering flame . |
| 12 | Jones , challenged early on in the action to surrender , made the subsequently famous reply : ‘ I have not yet begun to fight ! ’ , refusing to lower his equally famous flag , made for the Ranger by the admiring young women of Portsmouth , New Hampshire , who had cut the ‘ stripes ’ from their silk dresses and the ‘ stars ’ from the wedding gown of a naval wife . |
| 13 | Of course , locked up out in the suburbs , they would grow fretful , shrill , agoraphobic ; lash their daughters into a competitive frenzy of accessorising , pray for their sons ' success at swim meets the way a punter prays for his greyhound , wax the floors into glass to catch a glimpse of their own reflection . |
| 14 | as if at a prearranged signal a chant began high up in the gallery : ‘ Fascism means Murder ! |
| 15 | The Aston Villa centre half , now settled comfortably back in the Irish fold after the controversy of his failure to appear for the game in Albania three weeks ago , is a major figure in Charlton 's plans . |
| 16 | And then Cassie felt a vibration which started deep down in the foundations of Rose Cottage and ran vertically through its structure , up to the very roof itself . |
| 17 | I went right up in the air . |
| 18 | And er but of course the whole force of the explosion went right up in the light room . |
| 19 | I wished I could help him then ; he looked so down in the mouth hunched up by the stove . |
| 20 | He went straight out in the car and he brought her home . ’ |
| 21 | Edward Crumwallis did one of his characteristic swerves , and went abruptly off in the other direction . |
| 22 | Yellow gorse blossomed further on in the open , a cheerful show of colour . |
| 23 | Feeny laughs , whispers , ‘ Cocorico ’ ; they whisper back and she takes up the thread where she left off back in the bathroom : |
| 24 | Her good humour rapidly dissipated once out in the restaurant . |
| 25 | Replacing the glass with care , she slid back down in the bed and deliberately conjured up the scene in the Seren at the moment the engine cut out and she was about to capsize . |
| 26 | The following morning , Arty was taken by ambulance to the huge Victorian red-brick pile on the edge of town — a massive structure set well back in the fields and surrounded by a high wall to protect the sensibilities of the sane from too close a confrontation with one of society 's more disagreeable problems . |
| 27 | He shuffled , he stamped , he stayed well back in the shelter of the narrow brick passageway that he 'd found as a better lookout point . |
| 28 | Not to be confused with air vents is the owl-hole , a nearly square or circular opening 150–230mm ( 6–9in ) across , set high up in the gable of the barn . |