Example sentences of "slowly [conj] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not everyone accepts Machiavelli 's advice that rulers should dispense favours slowly and inflict pain all at once . |
| 2 | Raise your head slowly and relax . |
| 3 | Raise your head slowly and relax . |
| 4 | Raise your head slowly and relax . |
| 5 | Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis both grow slowly and require complicated rich media , including substances of unknown or uncertain chemical composition . |
| 6 | ‘ I mean stand up slowly and make yer way to the back shop and we can all have a wee chat . |
| 7 | If you were near the front , it was nice to be able to have a roll-up and drink your tea slowly and wake up a bit . |
| 8 | I usually follow fashion very slowly and creep in just as it starts to look dated , but then I think that 's the way I should do it . |
| 9 | Accumulate movements slowly and assimilate them thoroughly . |
| 10 | So here we go , boot toecaps are suitably polished , draw the leg back slowly and stand by to put a large boot into architects . |
| 11 | If you slow its metabolism by restricted diet , it will mature more slowly and live longer than normal : the clock of its life will slow down . |
| 12 | I think they should take things a lot more slowly and live apart , ’ she says . |
| 13 | Let him take his chauffeur 's cap off very slowly and say softly to me , ‘ oh sir , I do n't never want to work for anyone else , never ’ ; let him kneel by the side of the great bed , in the moonlight , and let him lean over to kiss me gently on the lips and to run his leather-gloved hand tenderly across my cheek , across my lips , through my hair , saying all the time , ‘ oh sir , I 'm here sir , I 'm right here , I 'm right here by the bed ; was you calling me sir , did you call me ? ’ |
| 14 | Wholemeal bread and flour can be eaten instead , as these are broken down more slowly and do not release glucose all at once . |
| 15 | Warm up first ( follow the exercises in Chapter 6 — The Walker 's Workout ) , start slowly and do n't hurt yourself , for that is the fastest way to break the routine in your programme and is often the reason why so many exercise programmes fail . |
| 16 | The oesophageal stem cells in the proliferative zone , as a rule , proliferate more slowly and do not migrate to maintain their ‘ niche ’ in the epithelial/ mesenchyme interface whereas their progeny ( the transit amplifying cells ) divide and migrate sideways , upwards and , during inflammation , probably downwards also into deeper layers . |
| 17 | Nobody knew how to run the longer events , the advice we were given being the same as that I had pontificated for 80 metres back at the White City : start slowly and build up ! |
| 18 | Turn the water on slowly and tighten the nuts if there are any leaks . |
| 19 | ‘ Beat the drum slowly And play the pipe lowly , ’ advised Tal . |
| 20 | Fingertips on sides of head , sit up slowly and lie back . |
| 21 | His canny bank manager approach probably means he will hasten slowly but prepare for some stand-offs with his civil servants and possibly with the chairman of British Rail too . |
| 22 | Lamont declared it to be a " budget for recovery " which he predicted would " start slowly but gather pace " . |
| 23 | Considerations in favour of a more flexible approach towards new building in the South East include the need to continue the momentum of the national economic recovery and the search for alternative uses of surplus farmland , but if no firm guidance on this matter is forthcoming in the near future , decentralization is likely to occur more slowly but take place over longer distances . |