Example sentences of "quietly [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had had such a promising career as a physio , Kathleen thought crossly , and now she was trapped at home with her children while her husband powered quietly on up the career ladder , leaving her behind . |
| 2 | As each group of rigs arrived they moved quietly on to the sloping cobbled ramp , which in times past had been used by a civilian ferry , and with a hiss of hydraulics opened out . |
| 3 | Her flatmate , Carolyn Bartholomew , recalls : ‘ Prince Charles was coming quietly on to the scene . |
| 4 | Cavalcades were riding quietly down to the ground , past trees indigo with recent rain , and cows and horses grazing alongside the faded grey ruins of the castle with its crenellated battlements and gaping windows . |
| 5 | As soon as there was a little light in the sky outside my window , I got up and went quietly down to the kitchen . |
| 6 | We 'll just walk quietly down behind the tree cover and bag two of those beauties . |
| 7 | When the message came , he left the smithy and went quietly up to the castle . |
| 8 | We went quietly up to the top floor , where he unlocked one of the small black doors . |
| 9 | The door closed behind them and they crept quietly up to the top floor in order not to wake the sleeping boys downstairs . |
| 10 | I went quietly up to the door and looked inside . |
| 11 | I walked quickly and quietly up to the hut , and looked inside . |
| 12 | I got up and walked quietly out into the early evening . |
| 13 | I returned the book to the place on the shelf where I had found it and walked quietly out of the room . |
| 14 | Someone came quietly out of the crowd and spoke to the other officer , looking at me . |
| 15 | Corbett asked the Prior one last favour , one more task , the monk agreed and slipped quietly out of the room . |
| 16 | It was a beautiful sunny morning , and at eleven o'clock , after I had done a quick surgery , we chugged quietly out of the harbour , with Lucy at the controls . |
| 17 | He let himself quietly out of the house and the silence closed in around Hari , smothering her . |
| 18 | ‘ It is a country with opportunities , ’ said Steve : and off they went again , with their second-hand opinions , their echoes of overheard conversations , their phrases from advertisements and tabloid newspapers : and yet to Shirley there was perhaps something comfortable , despite all , something reassuring about the hands of cards , the button and matchstick money , the green baize of the table , the predictable , ancient jokes , the cigarette ends in the big red ashtray : there was safety here , of a sort , safety in repetition , safety in familiar faces and frustrations , and warmth of a sort , warmth and communion of a sort , society of a sort : the society she had discovered as a teenager , when she would slip surreptitiously out of the icy silence of Abercorn Avenue , where the clock ticked relentlessly on the kitchen wall , where Liz propped her textbooks against the Peek Frean biscuit tin on the kitchen table , where her mother sat in the front room listening to the radio , cutting up newspapers ; she would let herself quietly out of the back door and creep down the passage , past the outside lav , through the back gate , round the corner , and then she would run for it , along Hilldrop Crescent , down The Grove , up Brindleford Drive , and across the main road at the lights to Victoria Street , where Cliff and Steve and their sister Marge lived . |
| 19 | I put the clothes on , and walked quietly out of the castle with him . |
| 20 | She said no more , and Liddy went quietly out of the room . |
| 21 | Corbett thanked the old nun and slipped quietly out of the chamber in search of the Prioress . |
| 22 | Corbett bowed towards Lady Amelia , stepped from the lectern and walked quietly out of the church . |
| 23 | You turn out the lights , and ‘ Smee ’ goes quietly out of the room and hides . |
| 24 | She allowed herself ten minutes for Nigel and Adrian to get clear of the hotel before slipping her arms into a grey mohair jacket , collecting her shoulder-bag and slipping quietly out of the hotel . |
| 25 | She slipped quietly out of the hotel , grateful that none of the other cast members were around to witness her departure , and made her way to the car park . |
| 26 | So when Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson hastily gave him a free transfer to Spain 's Sporting Gijon more than three years ago , you 'd have bet that the battered Irishman would have slipped quietly out of the limelight . |
| 27 | My master did not demur and I slipped quietly out of the chamber . |
| 28 | He withdrew his hands , smiled at Benjamin and slipped quietly out of the room . |
| 29 | She got up and slipped quietly out of the door . |
| 30 | He went quietly out through the little vestry door — ancient , ogee , poignant — into the chancel . |