Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lesley turned smartly left as the lights changed , and wound her way by back-streets to the parking-ground on the edge of the shopping centre , a multi-storey monstrosity of raw concrete , at which she gazed with resigned distaste as she crept slowly up to the barrier and drove in to the second tier . |
| 2 | As they crept slowly forward over the plain his eyes searched for those tiny villages made of mud with their bamboo groves and their ponds ; and though the plain was perfectly flat the villages were somehow hidden in its folds , blending with it . |
| 3 | Its colour void led to clean , efficient lines which had an appeal that passed right down to the high street . |
| 4 | It arose most acutely in the United States which welcomed immigrants but also put pressure on them to turn themselves into English-speaking American citizens as soon as possible , since any rational citizen would wish to be an American . |
| 5 | As Athelstan and Benedicta rode slowly back across the dark , choppy waters of the Thames , Adam Horne left the Crutched Friars monastery near Mark Lane just north of the Tower . |
| 6 | Many thatched cottages were built on the brow of a hill overlooking the sea ; and a large potato-field , divided into elongated sections , gave ample scope for many Lewis families to prove that union is strength , for they were busily engaged lifting the crop : each family group was complete in itself ; those who had the most children got most quickly over the ground : many hands make light work , and young backs bend easily . |
| 7 | The triumph of Atlanticism , however , became clear only towards the end of the 1940s , driven by necessity and the absence of more appealing alternatives . |
| 8 | The gun roared and the clay disintegrated somewhere out over the field . |
| 9 | If just a single layer is used it will be stitched through to the outer shell of the bag at intervals and sometimes stitched right through to the lining on cheaper bags . |
| 10 | A plainclothes policeman got leisurely out of the panda car and walked across the road to them . |
| 11 | She got wearily out of the car and tramped across the car park to the reception lobby , where she asked the receptionist with peroxided hair if she could phone the AA . |
| 12 | Of all the cities in the north , Milan was the one that expanded most rapidly in the period up to 1100 . |
| 13 | The guard did as he was told , then stood back , watching as Tolonen limped slowly across to the corpse . |
| 14 | That succeeded only partially in the setting , but the costumes were attractive . |
| 15 | As he says to one of their tools : When Buckingham presents his credentials for deceiving the London citizens it is in the same theatrical-Machiavellian terms as Richard : But Buckingham himself is deceived , as we realized long ago in the flurry of insincere praise that Richard heaped upon him : Buckingham should have known that such effusiveness from a hypocrite can only bode ill . |
| 16 | They clung so tenaciously to the idea that Rose felt she could n't stand in their way . |
| 17 | He found the predatory birds oriented less accurately to the alarm calls , as Marler would have predicted . |
| 18 | The assumptions made so far about the input-output relations of the economy have been simplistic in the extreme . |
| 19 | Ralph Bryant read out the hundred and seventh psalm the following Sunday at the morning service in St Saviour 's , and the congregation listened with rapt attention to those words which applied so directly to the men and boys who were to sail in the Russell that day : |
| 20 | Mrs Knelle 's garden — or perhaps I should say ‘ grounds ’ — meandered gently down to the narrow lakeside road . |
| 21 | Kate walked out , and climbed the shallow stairs that led so comfortably to the upper floor . |
| 22 | He also sent us out to a dhow in the harbour to fish ; we had never before been on a vessel that rode so close to the water . |
| 23 | She struggled from Sophia 's embrace and jumped down among the windfall apples , rolled one over with her paw , then turned and stalked indifferently away among the Michaelmas daisies . |
| 24 | Ten minutes later they all met together again on the bank . |
| 25 | And it 's unlikely that Chas 's grandfather got much out of the British Empire beyond , in all probability , two or three years spent serving as a soldier in India , two or three years off the dole queue . |
| 26 | He must have been about to take a shower , she realised , noticing a towel flung carelessly on to the bed , and seeing for the first time that his shirt was undone almost to the waist , revealing his broad , muscular chest with its lavish covering of silky golden hair . |
| 27 | Beyond it lay Nubia , and beyond that the Land of Punt , an almost legendary region which the Egyptians penetrated only briefly in the imperial years of the New Kingdom . |
| 28 | Her choice of leading man in this Thorn Birds -style shocker revealed much too about the new , confident Kylie . |
| 29 | The tram schoogled away again , and Maggie gazed eagerly out at the passing scene . |
| 30 | The military rode roughshod even over the Ukrainian Bolsheviks . |