Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there was one thing that got right up a nome 's nose , it was someone saying , ‘ Here is a really sensible idea . |
| 2 | Roirbak bundled Tammuz into the elevator and they rode halfway up the building in silence until Tammuz said : ‘ I ca n't believe this ! ’ |
| 3 | Charles wandered slowly up the village street in search of his valise . |
| 4 | A few minutes after eight , as they watched , a black flag moved slowly up the post . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | FREEZING snow whipped our faces as we peered nervously down the slope . |
| 7 | He stopped halfway down the passage , whirling about to meet her . |
| 8 | He moved swiftly down the line of the wall , slowing as he neared its end . |
| 9 | Anyway , we did n't have much luck in the hollow either , so we moved further up the field . |
| 10 | It was not far enough , as there was still downward straggle , so we moved further up the ladder to cubes . |
| 11 | They paused a moment longer , then moved further down the gallery , inspecting each exhibit , checking any books which could be the hidden Grimoire . |
| 12 | Cram 's club-mate David Sharpe , looking for an 800 metres time inside 1 min 46.2 secs , moved further down the pecking order in the two-lap event after quick times by two of his rivals in Dijon : Wolverhampton 's Steve Heard , who was third in 1 mins 45.65 secs , and Haringey 's David Strang , fourth in 1:45.85 . |
| 13 | The mongrel tore savagely at the newspapers and the rat fled further down the alley , desperate for sanctuary . |
| 14 | Skillfully , Gerrard maneuvered the microphone away from her and moved quickly up the aisle to the back of the audience ; and the camera , pushed by a sweating man in a stained white shirt , followed him . |
| 15 | Maxim touched George 's arm and they moved carefully down the slope and well upstream from the farm stepped into the stinging cold water . |
| 16 | In the C2 10km race the Trains were drawn in lane 1 and paddled right up the centre of the course towards the first turn , avoiding the jostling in the middle , reminiscent of Stephen 's lone paddle at Poznan . |
| 17 | An ice-cream girl sauntered slowly up the aisle with a loaded tray , up to her tits in choc-ices and orange drinks . |
| 18 | He drove leisurely up the country lane and ascended the hill , before bearing left along the escarpment . |
| 19 | In the circumstances , Benjamin Titford might have been tempted not to leave his name in the parish register , either , as his bride came gingerly down the aisle bearing his as-yet-unborn son and heir . |
| 20 | Last season the whole defence seemed totally up the creek . |
| 21 | Without any fuss they were setting up a machine-gun while a party came straight up the hill towards the ambush positions . |
| 22 | Tom Tedder 's easy voice came reassuringly down the line . |
| 23 | As she trudged awkwardly up the valley road her feet began to sweat and the toes rubbed painfully against each other . |
| 24 | Then we drove hard down the autoroute . |
| 25 | Mandeville drove him away so he passed further down the group and tugged at Benjamin 's leg . |
| 26 | There was other Ramseys too , that lived further up the glen but they were taken round on the road way . |
| 27 | There was a place he lived further down the glen and the old farmer said I 've no objections to you going in there but give me your pipe . |
| 28 | Then he read further down the letter . |
| 29 | I climbed into my paper nightie and was helped on to a narrow trolley by a second Farrah Fawcett blow-up doll ( but punctured ) , then gazed adoringly up the nose of a Greek god as he wheeled me into an open lift and down to the basement operating theatre to a waiting : ‘ Hi , I 'm Andy , your anaesthesiologist . ’ |
| 30 | We then left the tramway ( grid reference SH 822 113 ) , though I mean to explore it more fully on a future occasion , and turned right up a forest track past some quarry buildings . |