Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barak instinctively stuffed them back into his pocket then rubbed his hands together nervously . |
| 2 | We presumed this to be a regular ford and drove across with the water slopping in over the floor of the Land rover , but we eventually made it up on to the high inland plateau . |
| 3 | But he survived his brush with death and eventually made it back to an English hospital . |
| 4 | I swing round slowly , slowly , and slowly level it to aim at the spider , slowly push it forward against the pull of the concertina pipe behind . |
| 5 | Implicit within the ruling was the concept that once an abortion restriction had been upheld in one state , other states could implement it , an interpretation which effectively made it more difficult to challenge the imposition by individual states of restrictions as long as they were within the guidelines established by the Court 's ruling in June 1992 on Roe v. Wade [ see p. 38954 ] . |
| 6 | Ormanroyd wins the header Speedy flicks it on again and Chettle er Chettle rather got it away as Jochim came in on him . |
| 7 | And then , so gently that she was hardly aware of what was happening — as if she was merely swaying with the tide — he gradually pulled her towards the shore , slowly drawing her up against the bare , damp skin of his broad chest . |
| 8 | He successfully fought them off and they fled empty-handed . |
| 9 | Many runners spend far too much time fretting about what pace they hope to run , or whether to wear gloves , while ignoring more basic details which could eventually affect their even getting to the start . |
| 10 | Finland , bound by its treaty of friendship with the Soviet Union , effectively ruled itself out of any participation for the time being . |
| 11 | Seeing just how comprehensive a work this is , with factory serial number , date of registration , date of next C of A expiry , owner's/operator 's name and probable base all listed , I can only surmise that the note-scribblers/pocket memo mumblers — many of whom seem not to have the slightest knowledge or interest in the type of aeroplane on which the letters are painted — are performing the latter-day equivalent of the sacred ritual which I and many others who have long since outgrown it once enacted in John W.R. Taylor 's ABC of Civil Aircraft Makings . |
| 12 | I have rarely heard him sound more relaxed . |
| 13 | ‘ I politely asked him not to bully me but that infuriated him . |
| 14 | Opposite middle : This wild boar is what the factory pig instinctively thinks it still is . |
| 15 | Thereby bringing it forward is purely to service the , the new complex and also it will help relieve the traffic problems areas of . |
| 16 | I have very successfully manipulated you here and I am keeping you here . |
| 17 | It was very warm for Kirkistown and I lost concentration half way through , but luckily got it back together before the end . ’ |
| 18 | It was very warm for Kirkistown and I lost concentration half way through , but luckily got it back together before the end . ’ |
| 19 | My way is to burn a hole in using a soldering iron , or by heating up a similarly shaped piece of metal on the gas oven and slowly easing it through . |
| 20 | She was strong enough to take a certain amount of punishment if it meant that , in the end , Matthew would rid himself of that core of hatred which was slowly eating him away . |
| 21 | He usually sleeps for a couple of days and then slowly builds himself up for the next trip . |
| 22 | Turning down ‘ loads of really tacky telly ’ , he decided he 'd rather slog it out on the alternative circuit than settle for being the new Bobby Davro . |
| 23 | I waited and waited for him at the points and eventually met him about three or four o'clock in the morning for the first time . |
| 24 | I tried to keep my feelings under control and remember that all these people were mostly helping us out of the goodness of their hearts , but sometimes it was difficult . |
| 25 | Exposed to Minton 's freewheeling , glamorous Bohemianism , some found it difficult afterwards to stand on their own feet , for Minton had effectively broken them away from their backgrounds or their jobs . |
| 26 | It is this experience which first tempted Sohl to seek out the Geordie and eventually bring him down south . |
| 27 | But I must admit I ca n't altogether make it out . " |
| 28 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 29 | She nodded , secretly doubting it very much . |
| 30 | He pulled the syringe out , and weakly flung it away . |