Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weissman carried on courageously with a complex but fascinating lecture on RNA splicing , ignoring the loud hubbub and intermittent squawks from his own microphone , and pausing often to wait out an eruption of roars and whistles from next door . |
| 2 | For winter camouflage I have an additional item , a sleeveless quilted shooting jacket which slips on rather like a bullet-proof vest . |
| 3 | I had a drink of water as my throat was hurting , picked up Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals and sat down thankfully in an easy chair . |
| 4 | One would therefore expect a system of massive objects to settle down eventually to a stationary state , because the energy in any movement would be carried away by the emission of gravitational waves . |
| 5 | She too exhibits both a fascination and a scepticism with regard to structuralist theories of the text , manifest in Thru as a healthy mistrust of theory whenever it becomes over-systematic . |
| 6 | She snapped her glass down on to a small side-table and stood up decisively . |
| 7 | This is quite easy to do on an animation stand , with the camera pointing down on to a flat board which supports the artwork . |
| 8 | He was ‘ jumped ’ by a Focke Wulf FW190 flown by the German ace , Robert Spreckels , and forced down on to a Danish beach . |
| 9 | We stood at the railed-off observation platform at Bartlet Nab and looked down on to a spectacular scene . |
| 10 | In desperation Odd-Knut suggests we go down on to a frozen lake , Devdisvatn , the Lake of the Dead Man . |
| 11 | ‘ Although I must say , Julie , ’ she added , throwing her briefcase down on to a nearby chair , ‘ I do think that you might have given me the ‘ Gypsy 's Warning ’ before I left for work today ! ’ |
| 12 | He sank down on to a convenient chair and shook his head dolefully . |
| 13 | In central London , a middle-aged woman had a lucky escape when a 40ft tree crashed down on to an open-top bus on Victoria Embankment . |
| 14 | What was your priorities when you were doing that , what were your priorities as far as , was it to get it all down or was it just to get in down in a particular way what what do you see as the priorities when you were talking about doing it ? |
| 15 | Agnes sat down gingerly on a worn green velvet wing chair . |
| 16 | There is something quite atavistic about a group of people sitting down together to a good dinner . |
| 17 | By 27 May , though , things had quietened down sufficiently for a daring ( or foolhardy ) party to charter a steamboat from Batavia ( now Djakarta ) and sail out to the islands to see what was going on . |
| 18 | Then out to his bed in a loft over the cowshed , leaving the family to draw in together in a cosy , alien-excluding unit around the flaming and hissing timber , to lie and smoke by the light of a candle and think o better days in the orphanage and wonder in unembittered fashion — for he had been happy there — about the mother who had abandoned him and the even shadowier lover who must have abandoned her . |
| 19 | Often found to be needed in vigorous , robust , healthy , rugged people and in children : they come down suddenly with a violent illness , a raging fever etc . |
| 20 | As Cole records , it settled down finally into an agricultural colony of individually owned and worked farms . |
| 21 | By contrast , in the second innings , when Australia 's tailenders had been sent in early on a wet pitch , Darling found himself going in No. 9 with 511 on the board and his side 635 ahead . |
| 22 | The worst episode of foul play was perpetrated by Southland lock Mark Tinnock , whose feet went up and down repeatedly in a tap-dancing motion on Lions ' flanker Richard Webster during a ruck . |
| 23 | Missing from the last tournament are Scotland , because of a hectic domestic schedule , and Spain and the Soviet Bears , who both stand down automatically after a two-year run . |
| 24 | He put the pump-action down carefully on an oiled gun bag lying on the gravel . |
| 25 | And slick pictures of pretty young people who seem to have nothing better to do than make amateur porn videos — often appearing in up to a dozen different tapes . |
| 26 | The bird perched on his shoulder , nestling against his cheek with his eyes closed , and sang along now in an eerie , wordless croon . |
| 27 | Indeed , his ambition is to move down now to a minimum deterrent . |
| 28 | It is the Underworld indeed , with rain slashing down out of a black sky , and the wind tearing the roses off the side of the house . |
| 29 | If there are any holes or dips in the cake , these can be filled in now with a little marzipan and glaze . |
| 30 | So said to me yes carry on you 're doing fine you know and he went up and er well he did n't know how to start the poor fellow doing smashing and he said , Well erm imagine this hall , he said , this hall we 're in now as a big cavern underground . |