Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 2 | Flashes of colour exploded in her head behind tightly shut eyelids as the expert stroke of his fingers moved boldly lower to seek and investigate , with utmost sensitivity , the small nub of femininity between the soft golden curls , and then hungrily on down into the moist , secret tightness below … |
| 3 | Quite a lot of the clean-up work had been going on apace of the actual stripdown of the engine so when the latter was finished , the former was not far behind . |
| 4 | As they ran on together across the flat open plateau , Yanto explained breathlessly what he had done . |
| 5 | The government began by taking on much of the financial responsibility for education , with the exception of some school building . |
| 6 | There was at the time of reorganization a considerable expansion of advisory services to meet the desire for increased curriculum coherence and the staff appointed were to take on much of the short course organization and guidance to schools for school focused INSET . |
| 7 | The Saturday shift always seemed to drag on endlessly for the elderly night watchman and he envied people who did not have to work at the weekends . |
| 8 | I fell down thankfully in the squidgy chair and drank some tea while he hovered round waiting to pounce again . |
| 9 | And they 'd go down right over the main road , right over the fields , over the railway , through the fields along the beach there . |
| 10 | Despair overtakes me as soon as I see the dreaded trolleys jammed together ; I always manage to pick one with a crab-like action ; my heart sinks and culinary amnesia sets in somewhere between the tinned fruit and dried pasta . |
| 11 | Or not unless they join in wholeheartedly with the other lot . |
| 12 | She turned to look at him , and he drew her gently down on to the cool grass . |
| 13 | Each morning trucks from the factory bumped along a dust road and turned down on to the low gravel bank where we were moored . |
| 14 | She flopped down on to the padded driver 's seat , planning to catch up on her sleep . |
| 15 | Their tusks were gnarled and they differed from the older Daurog in one remarkable and savage aspect : ridges of long , black spikes grew from the fronts of their bodies ; the central , vertical line of thorns ran down on to the twisting , restless sex organs that hung from their rotund bellies . |
| 16 | On other JAR matters , the Library staff restructuring has pushed a lot more work down on to the front desk staff , and I 'm sure that the effects will be noticed in future . |
| 17 | And , after the two of them had slipped down on to the expensive and discreet rug , the rest of his body also demonstrated its unimpaired mobility . |
| 18 | I picked up my cup and saucer and flopped down on to the half-moon hearthrug , curious as to what the desired effect of the substance was supposed to be , and wondering why it had n't worked , when I noticed the saucer felt thicker . |
| 19 | The thinning veil of cloud eddied in a gust of wind , and suddenly we were below it , looking down on to the flat roofs of a town spread out in a broad valley of rain-washed green . |
| 20 | Joe now withdrew his hand from the desk and , rising to his feet , he looked down on to the upturned faces of the two men and said , ‘ My mother may remain in the house as long as she wishes , but the running of it , the accounts and such , I wish to leave in your control . |
| 21 | ’ He tossed them down on to the small saucer on the table . |
| 22 | Shadows wavered backwards through the green railings and down on to the sunken slipway leading to the chain-ferry . |
| 23 | We reached the edge of the cliff and flopped down on to the soft turf . |
| 24 | But there was nothing , and with a quick twist of her body she hoisted herself over the wooden rail to slither down on to the deserted deck . |
| 25 | He heard a gasp from the crowd of people gathered below , he seemed to hang forever in mid-air and then , miraculously , he was crashing down on to the opposite roof . |
| 26 | I revived as I felt myself go hurtling through the air and crashed down on to the wooden planks of the scaffold . |
| 27 | She did not weep silently like her mother in a web of hands and hair , but noisily , like a child , with great sobs and huge tears that splashed down on to the brown wool of her skirt to which little bits of hay still clung from the afternoon . |
| 28 | We came out of the beach-hut belt and slid down on to the barrelling freeway . |
| 29 | The leather thwacked down on to the white tender flesh of her bonny twin moons to leave red scorch marks across the ivory white skin . |
| 30 | She could see her own face reflected in little in the black pupils of his subaqueous eyes . |