Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [adv] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 She thought she would have to hold on extremely tightly if they were to go any faster , but she thought it was a thrilling , intoxicating sensation to be borne along like this .
2 " Amabel , there 'll be nobody in Frizingley to touch you , " said John-William Dallam , sitting down rather heavily since he had run upstairs a little too quickly at her call and did not want her to see how easily , these days , he could lose his breath .
3 They must go in right away if they are to bloom for Christmas .
4 No doubt you tried the same thing with him — implying that we 'd got along rather better than we ought to have ? ’
5 It seemed to go down all right so he cleared his throat .
6 Ministers of the Crown will no longer be responsible for the internal workings of such organisations , accept in so far as they fulfil their contractual obligations .
7 And the handout I 've got here which I could n't tie in just now when I was trying to do the deduction is because the rates are very slightly different .
8 I cried to come down more insistently than I had pleaded for a ride .
9 Given , then , that volcanoes have a predilection for the seaside , let's now pin down more precisely where they occur .
10 Get in early there if you want
11 At one point , David suggested it would be kinder to have them put down straight away when they came in .
12 Overall during last year , this is to the end of , of November actually because fin figures are n't available for the end of the year , the reduction was four point nine percent , which compares with four point three percent in the previous year , so not only are they still going down , they 're actually going down slightly more than they were in the previous year and that must be encouraging .
13 Once she came in about 4pm when I was on duty , face glowing from the blustery west wind , and said eagerly , ‘ I see the flare path 's all lit up .
14 Take three deep breaths , breathing in as far as you can but without straining .
15 This did not go down as well as he might have hoped .
16 ‘ The trattoria sent it late , sir , ’ Wilson gasped , putting the tray down as carefully as she could manage , longing to escape from the room .
17 Right , what we need to do is to hit it fairly hard and try to get it damped down as quickly as we possibly can .
18 Mandy , her battle-lust having died down as quickly as it had set in , flopped down on Charity 's bed , and patted the spot beside her .
19 Make sure that the pattern is straight and gently feed it down as far as it will go .
20 Like someone pulling a blanket over his head and defying nature to do its worst , he sank and pushed himself down as far as he could go .
21 You have to get right down as far as you can .
22 Alice fulfilled the orders , then sat down as far as she could from Alfred who had just arrived .
23 The figure leapt for the top of the wall and was almost over when Martin jumped , grabbed its leg and pulled down as hard as he could .
24 She slammed it down as hard as she could on her opponent 's head .
25 Grimma caught him and laid him down as gently as she could .
26 The man on the rod would be unable to reel in fast enough as they ran down on the Zodiac .
27 It does n't matter if I do n't hand this in tomorrow even though I am already a day late .
28 ‘ So , ’ Robyn enquired , striving to keep her temper under control , ‘ you brought me all the way down here just so you could satisfy your own perverse curiosity ? ’
29 We , when we were dredging , we were dredging now from Cliff Quay and er used to get all this er grey mud and erm and the chalk and when we used to dredge , we got down to chalk er , more or less the depth we wanted to go and anybody dredging down there today if they dredge the chalk at Cliff Quay that 's the depth of water you want and erm then we dredged erm just below erm and then we went to Freston Freston we were dredging peat .
30 I went down there once when I had a fight with a girl , a white girl .
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