Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You messed up their surveillance , you beat up their agents , you went in for exactly the same unauthorised adventurism as they had — and so let them off the hook . |
| 2 | That puts still more of a premium on shrewdly imaginative lineout tactics , married to throwing in of just the right pace and parabola . |
| 3 | Without him we had to struggle along with just the three of us . |
| 4 | A shake of the table on which it was standing would bring the pile down in exactly the same way that an earthquake shakes houses down . |
| 5 | The trouble is with the second horn parts , they often often have a wider register gap , and the first horn part which tends to waver up and down in vaguely the same place while the second sort of goes woo woo woo , jumps up and down . |
| 6 | All popular kinds of decorative pond fish can survive for several months during the winter without feeding , as their body processes slow down in much the same manner as a tree or shrub in the garden becomes dormant . |
| 7 | " Some people are best left alone , " said Gabriel , and he looked down to where the eldest and the middle brother were lying peacefully under their beautiful tree , with its green leaves , and its glossy fruit , and the white blossom falling like snow . |
| 8 | When Lee turned out of the door and looked down to where the battered bird would have landed there was nothing to see but the same old Z-shaped crack in the hard , grey pavingstone and a streak of blood . |
| 9 | The feathers floated away from him on the light breeze , catching at the grey budding branches of the tree beneath him , drifting down to where the few Men and People who were there looked helplessly up . |
| 10 | And he actually took her arm , quite simply and confidently , and rushed her on the wings of his enthusiasm down through the green complexities of the bowl , between the crisp , serrated walls , across the fragments of tiled pavement , past the forum pillars , down to where the emerald turf sloped off under a token wire barrier to the riverside path and the waters of the Comer . |
| 11 | He was clean-shaven , although a faint darkness marked his jaw at this hour ; inevitable with his colouring , she knew , her eyes moving upwards to his jet-black hair and then — a betrayal of herself — down to where the open neck of his shirt provided tantalising glimpses of subtly gleaming flesh shadowed by softly curling dark hair , all so emphatically masculine . |
| 12 | Rose looked helplessly down to where the old lady still flailed against her pillows , catching her breath on each series of cackles as they left her throat . |
| 13 | It would be much more sensible if , as a staff writer in Ekonomska politika ( 15 February 1988 ) has suggested , the minimum point for assessing personal income tax were to be brought down to approximately the average income of each republic or province , and the scale of progressivity were to be less steep . |
| 14 | Basically any report on Eastern Europe 's problems comes down to much the same things : a heavy reliance on smokestack industries burning brown coal ( also known as lignite ) and pouring out uncontrolled noxious fumes , factories tipping their chemical wastes straight into rivers , and untreated sewage . |
| 15 | The two essential points are that fewer than one in three had considered paying cash as a real alternative ; and that half said they bought on credit because they did n't have the cash , while about another quarter gave answers ( like ‘ needed it right away ’ ) which boil down to much the same . |
| 16 | You can zoom in and out of the preview , looking at thumbnails of your pages , or zooming in on just the one page . |
| 17 | The swinging leg has to touch down at exactly the right speed and lock straight in time to convert the kinetic energy into lift . |
| 18 | The job of the chant leader is simply to make sure that ‘ Shit ! ’ comes in at exactly the right time . |
| 19 | He can claim , whether truthfully or not , that he had recommended clients to come in at exactly the right times . |
| 20 | He has a habit of playing in at least the inaugural event held on one of his lay-outs and in December 1988 fully intended to play in the Austrian Open of 1989 . |
| 21 | On Wednesday they had a quiet morning in the centre until just before lunch when two emergencies came in at virtually the same time . |
| 22 | Thus , courses , which , in the past , have started in September and finished in the following June , during which all students moved along at exactly the same speed of learning , will become a feature of the past . |
| 23 | At the same time he was turned down by both the Civil Service and the Foreign Office . |
| 24 | Morning winds may be light , but afternoons are usually brisk , with exciting open sea sailing in force 3 to 5 for many days each holiday — let down by only the odd day of paddling ! |
| 25 | Juan Gris has often been cited as the most orthodox or ‘ pure ’ Cubist ; taking over from where the eager Picasso left off , and refining and enriching the latter 's artistic legacy . |
| 26 | She walked over to where the just-savaged books lay strewn across the floor , and stirred them with the toe of her boot . |
| 27 | The smell hit them as they slithered to the bottom of the slope and McLeish resolutely took a breath before walking over to where the swollen body lay . |
| 28 | Cardiff looked over to where the other two strangers were laying their metal suitcases carefully down in the main reception area under the watchful eye of Pearce 's men . |
| 29 | However , the timetable may be hampered as the Government intends a dramatic slow-down nationally in the growth of student recruiting over at least the next three years . |
| 30 | Using the no boundary condition , we find that the universe must in fact have started off with just the minimum possible nonuniformity allowed by the uncertainty principle . |