Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took the paper eagerly and folded it carefully into his wallet . |
| 2 | Images from her dreams charged into her consciousness suddenly and curtained her away from reality . |
| 3 | The Pharaoh is met by the lissom naked figure of Nut who takes his wrist gently and leads him forward to his tomb . |
| 4 | 8.1 The Publisher shall compile statements of sales twice annually and render them together with cheques for the amount due to the Company within six months after the accounting dates . |
| 5 | John took the empty cups down below and placed them quietly in the small sink . |
| 6 | But he did not wait for a reply before throwing himself to one side as a sabre whistled down and buried itself deep in the brickwork of the window sill where he had been sitting . |
| 7 | She was trembling as she bent down and inserted it carefully into the left-hand drawer of the desk . |
| 8 | Carter bowed down and lifted her effortlessly over his broad shoulder . |
| 9 | Jim jumped up and down and kissed me noisily on the cheek , shouting : " A goldmine , that 's what she is — a proper bloody goldmine ! " |
| 10 | I pulled her face down and kissed her gently on the lips . |
| 11 | Ruth asked as Fernando reached down and grasped her tightly round the wrist to haul her out of the swimming-pool . |
| 12 | Any sort of boat could have been used to ferry a body to midstream and to put it gently over the side in darkness . |
| 13 | He had turned to look at her , slipping off his coat as he did so and tossing it carelessly over the back of one of the armchairs . |
| 14 | Willie did so and placed it carefully on the table . |
| 15 | ‘ We found a few , ’ he told her , answering her question about the mussels , pulling off his jacket as he did so and draping it carelessly over the back of the chair . |
| 16 | Morris clipped the papers together and tossed them across onto Dyson 's desk Dyson had for some reason assumed that Morris would bring them over and stand beside him while he went through them . |
| 17 | Then , when the heated tyre gradually cooled , it contracted and drew the joints together and bedded itself firmly round the woodwork . |
| 18 | Ellen Jebeau brought her lips tightly together and drew them inwards between her teeth before she said , with deep bitterness , ‘ I do n't know about it being a time for plain speaking , I can only say that time has shown your ingratitude for what I 've done for you over the years . ’ |
| 19 | By the middle of the twentieth century , Adorno found himself confronted with a cultural field in which the squeezed and narrowing pinnacle of aesthetic difference and negation had all but detached itself completely from the squat , commodified mass of capitalist ‘ affirmative ’ culture . |
| 20 | IN MAKING float glass , molten glass is floated on molten metal , so as to smooth it perfectly on both sides . |
| 21 | I could see from the onlooking faces that he was coming for me and at what speed , and when I felt the air behind me move and heard the brush of his clothes I went down fast on one knee and whirled and punched upwards hard into the bottom of his advancing rib cage and then shifted my weight into his body and upwards so as to lift him wholesale off the floor , and before he 'd got that sorted out I had one of his wrists in my hand and he ended up on his feet with me behind him , his arm in a nice painful lock and my mouth by his ear . |
| 22 | The bureaucracy will be remunerated so as to set it apart from the rest of society and reinforce its internal hierarchy . |
| 23 | They bark and jump around excitedly , becoming particularly frenetic if you stop somewhere else , rather than taking them immediately for a walk . |
| 24 | For some it will be too late to fully recover more creative ways of asking the world to help them find what they need , rather than taking it brutally by theft , rape , or murder . |
| 25 | With these funds at their disposal , various governments , central banks or monetary authorities actively supported Arab bank involvement in the recycling operation rather than leaving it entirely to non-Arab banks . |
| 26 | Now Duke and his brothers began trimming sideways across the face of the waves , as their ancestors had done , rather than riding them straight into the beach . |
| 27 | In what circumstances is it appropriate for a Convention to prescribe a conflicts rule in relation to an issue rather than settling it directly by a substantive rule ? |
| 28 | Rather than discuss it again in this report , we shall briefly recall the main points of those of its conclusions relating specifically to credit : |
| 29 | Attention should surely be directed towards eliminating such anomalies , rather than entrenching them further into the law . |
| 30 | He is one of the few first-class players who make a point also of drinking in the public bar at grounds rather than cocooning himself away in the players ’ or sponsors ' lounges . |