Example sentences of "[vb past] slowly [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He drove slowly down the wide Third Avenue .
2 Toy trucks moved between hangars ; a minute tractor drove slowly down the main runway .
3 They walked slowly up the broad staircase , Alec holding the oil-lamp a little above his head .
4 When her aunt was dressed she walked slowly down the narrow staircase in front of her in case , in her weak state , she should stumble .
5 Moving like ants in a sand-trap we gasped slowly up the near-vertical rim of the secondary crater , into a storm of ash which masked the gathering dawn .
6 The hours slid slowly down the great entropy slope of the universe .
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