Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Having deliberately taken her time , Luce descended the stairs some half an hour later , looking flower-fresh , her wispy fringe brushed to one side , her hair curling loosely on to her shoulders . |
| 32 | A few days ago , we saw the appalling spectacle on television of Vietnamese asylum seekers being dragged forcibly on to a plane to be sent back to Vietnam , a very poor country that has suffered economic embargos since 1976 , which have caused great poverty there . |
| 33 | Most of my friends collapsed thankfully on to their beds , but I slunk down the long flights of stone stairs and took up a position in the foyer where I could watch the front door . |
| 34 | I put my candle down on the shelf , and dropped thankfully on to the bed . |
| 35 | The douce denizens of Edinburgh looked up in sudden amazement as a Heinkel thundered low across the rooftops beloved of Baillie Nicol Jarvie and disappeared beyond the hills , a spitfire hanging grimly on to its smoking trail and blazing away at it with all four guns . |
| 36 | Sheila , however , hung grimly on to it , whereupon the boy began to pull her along the path . |
| 37 | ‘ The thing is , I was thinking of going to Prague myself , ’ she hung grimly on to her self-control to get started again . |
| 38 | New Scientist kept a lofty attitude about it all by celebrating three anniversaries in the history of space flight , or , alternatively , dropped its gaze discreetly on to the Mary Rose , about to surface from the Solent . |
| 39 | Is it possible to arrange that they be given blanks and do n't know which are the blanks and which are the real , because otherwise there 's a risk after you 've done this the schools will suspect that they 're low , and therefore they will add a little on to their blank or something like that . |
| 40 | The exhibition continues into twentieth-century painting with works of Futurism , the Cubist-Futurist Russians , American Cubism , Precisionism represented by Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler and thence on through the various transformations that the art of this century has seen . |
| 41 | Emily watched him go and then , rising , she threw her napkin down furiously on to the table . |
| 42 | Gertrude stopped working , and collapsed ponderously on to a seat . |
| 43 | She pulled Midnight 's head up off the grass , gathered him together and drew him delicately on to the garden path . |
| 44 | Here we ought to stress that evolution is not spurred simplistically on by ‘ random mutation ’ , as the Oxford zoologist Richard Dawkins points out in his book The Blind Watchmaker . |
| 45 | But , as her stomach gave another helpless rumble of hunger , she sank down weakly on to one of the chairs and unceremoniously began ripping off the tin foil . |
| 46 | Escaping to her room , she shut the door with careful control behind her , then wedged a chair under the handle with trembling fingers before sinking weakly on to the seat and burying her hot face in her hands . |
| 47 | I could not bear to see him suffer and so I threw myself wholeheartedly on to Nonni 's side , arguing passionately that my aunts ' lack of interest in day-to-day matters was a boring affectation ; that Nonni was much more ‘ real ’ and ‘ closer to life ’ . |
| 48 | Karelius ' mare , after a whole day on her feet , stumbled gamely on across the freezing moorland towards Lake Satschen , and escape to the south . |
| 49 | The child struggled gamely on to page two but Seemed to suspect that , after a page turn of this quality , anything else was liable to be an anti-climax . |
| 50 | At the top of the hill Bathsheba turned and saw the woman walking slowly on towards Casterbridge . |
| 51 | Raise up slowly on to your toes , as high as possible , keeping your body upright . |
| 52 | ABDELATIF AREBEYAT walks slowly on to the podium , utters a Koranic greeting and opens a new day of business in the Jordanian parliament . |
| 53 | The Citation rolled slowly on to its left side as Duncan fought to keep it flying and to keep it away from the airliner . |
| 54 | The sun , incandescent orange , dropped slowly on to pier 56 and made the buttes of mid-town Manhattan shine like fool 's gold . |
| 55 | A large , empty room with high , narrow windows through which the bright day filtered slowly on to various shades of brown . |
| 56 | Yet she did n't think she had imagined that , when her head had dropped wearily on to his shoulder , his arms had tightened about her . |
| 57 | Not totally sure she actually wanted to illuminate what she already knew she was going to find , she snapped down the switch and stared disagreeably at the glistening drops that plopped relentlessly on to the dresser . |
| 58 | She heard him call after her and got into one of the swing boats with a pale , freckled little boy who was hanging nervously on to the rope while his plain , doting parents stood beside the boat , saying encouragingly , ‘ Go on , Sidney , it 'll be such fun . ’ |
| 59 | Bawiti was a village of crooked streets and blank-walled houses which faced inward on to courtyards . |
| 60 | Right down past the big dole office in town , up that way , and then that way , instead of coming through Green . |