Example sentences of "mud [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In deeper channels , black and highly carbonaceous muds eventually form to create anaerobic conditions . |
| 2 | Some of the visitors told their children they were made out of mud rather than say they were made from ‘ cow muck ’ . |
| 3 | It 's been in the mud somewhere . |
| 4 | Feet slithered in the mud halfway down the bank . |
| 5 | But if the mud suddenly turns oily brown , we could look forward to running our cars on Herefordshire petrol . |
| 6 | Even in rural areas , the Chinese use mud only as an immediate , practical necessity . |
| 7 | According to Captain Trentham 's report , he was picked up with a single bullet wound in his right hand while lying in the mud only a few yards in front of his own trench . |
| 8 | Came to the end of it , felt the mud below . |
| 9 | Through years of attempting to lick herself clean , for she had never quite lost her self-respect , Stripey had become as thickly coated with mud inside as out . |
| 10 | Mopping up operations began as the flood receeded , leaving mud inside as well as out . |
| 11 | Already the biggest obstacle to the dissemination of improved techniques of mud building is that scientists and housing experts have decried mud so much that even the poor , who have no alternative to mud , do not want to live in it . |
| 12 | Nuthatches , nesting in tree holes , habitually narrow the entrance by rimming it with mud so that nothing bigger than they can enter , and even the probing beak of a magpie hunting for nestlings can not reach the young within . |
| 13 | I 'm covered in a fine glossy sheen of drying mud so maybe they never got a good grip in the first place . |
| 14 | Many can forage above ground at night but they laboriously shield themselves from predators by constructing covered run-ways , and thin crusts of mud all over the vegetation they are plundering . |
| 15 | ‘ But you 're just as cold , and , ’ he added pointedly , ‘ continuing to tread mud all over a rather expensive Turkish rug — one that I 'm particularly fond of . ’ |
| 16 | He had a dirty bandage above one eye , and mud all over his breeches . |
| 17 | Here is Fräulein Therese Aschmann from the theatre who has mud all over her shoes . ’ |
| 18 | There was mud all over the place . |
| 19 | She did and I got mud all over it . |
| 20 | You got mud all over the bed , come and look at it |
| 21 | She scraped the mud away and revealed a piece of scrimshaw . |
| 22 | Tubifex is collected by scooping up the mud patch containing the worms , and then washing the mud away to leave clean worms which tend to gather in a tight ball . |
| 23 | A reporter in the Morning Chronicle , 24 October 1849 , describes one vividly : the mud outside , the low doorway , the dark and chill interior , the sparse and derelict furniture . |
| 24 | knowing the mud outside would add |
| 25 | He dropped the note-book in the mud just where the water came and stamped on it , grinding it in to the soft mess of leaves . |
| 26 | She did not need , while wearing boots with the mud still on them , to give the teacher an advanced lesson in maths . |
| 27 | Like something to do with mud like comes from America . |
| 28 | Mahmoud examined the mud carefully . |
| 29 | Mudskippers are only a few centimetres long and you can find them in mangrove swamps and muddy estuaries in many parts of the tropics , lying on the glistening mud well beyond the lap of the waters . |
| 30 | Come off the mud please Bryony it 's all clarty . |