Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 4500km of roads , four towns , an airport , railway , a port , schools and hospitals were built , the pulp mill came from Japan and was floated thence up the Amazon . |
| 2 | I was inching carefully down the south bank of Dam Pool , covering every possible lie , when a good trout rose behind me . |
| 3 | Sampson feels ‘ a very great aversion ’ to Slinkton as soon as he sees him : ‘ His hair , which was elaborately brushed and oiled , was parted straight up the middle ; and he presented this parting to the clerk , exactly … as if he had said , in so many words : ‘ You must take me , if you please , my friend , just as I show myself . |
| 4 | Philip ran down the bracken bank to the gate and watched him run down the field to Mrs Wright who was walking slowly down the field . |
| 5 | Then he was climbing back up the bank he had slithered down and I watched as he walked in a leisurely fashion across the slope of the mountain to the gully . |
| 6 | The next thing I knew I was looking straight up the barrel of this gun because the Fairey Fox was no more than 12ft away from the cabin and the pilot was very annoyed . |
| 7 | It was the sort of weapon that you saw John Wayne wielding so well and twisting round his finger , but I did not like the idea of this thing which I was looking straight up the barrel of . |
| 8 | She stopped a few feet away , so that she was hidden by the curtains , and fixed her gaze unblinkingly on the long black Mercedes that was heading sedately up the driveway . |
| 9 | He ignored Fiver , who was waiting farther down the run . |
| 10 | A ship was moving slowly down the main channel , its engines throbbing in the stillness . |
| 11 | Then , with two Arabs pushing him and two pulling , he was bundled slowly up the high stones of the Pyramid to the summit . |
| 12 | A few hours later the carrack was proceeding slowly up the narrow entrance to the Tagus between St Julian 's Fort and the sandbanks where the long Atlantic swell was making a dazzling white line of roaring surf . |
| 13 | This is the only way to account for the difference between the second tournament , in which Tit for Two Tats was ranked well down the list , and the first tournament , which Tit for Two Tats would have won . |
| 14 | Lamb allowed too much for the ball going across him , and dragged one that was coming back off the pitch onto his leg stump from side off . |
| 15 | The body of Edward Stone , 27 , an experienced climber who lived locally , was found halfway up the peak . |
| 16 | Billy 's cottage was set back off the road , behind a neat little hedge . |
| 17 | I mean you want to see his house I mean it was set back off the road and you see the people pull ploughing |
| 18 | Every top lip was pulled back off the teeth , every eye was ringed round with a reddish bruising , while their cheeks cracked like tambourines as they cough , cough , coughed . |
| 19 | What made the victory all the more memorable for the 21-year-old was that he beat three-times champion and Chelmsford AC clubmate Dave Tullett , who was closing fast down the back straight . |
| 20 | He broke off and stepped back , for the King had broken free of his friends , and was running alone down the strand to the messenger . |
| 21 | As the tide rose , water was forced back up the Westbury Brook and held back by the sluice gates . |