Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it 's all there , complete with toilet paper , which you use and then deftly wind back on to the roll . |
| 2 | He was rather looked down on by the Trebetherick set . |
| 3 | Although he was obviously placed carefully on to the sofa , the freshly pomaded hair is awry and could have benefited from a comb prior to being photographed . |
| 4 | So they have plenty of time to grow to a respectable size and are merely carried passively up to the surface with the rest of the magma when it is erupted , and are distributed uniformly throughout it . |
| 5 | A hare appeared on the opposite verge , quivered for a second , then ran swiftly up the road only to leap sideways out of the path of the approaching French infantry . |
| 6 | Periodically the ship had literally sailed up on to the tug , ramming her bows against the stern , and finally the towing hawser had ripped out the capstan to which it was fastened . |
| 7 | Thus far The Buddha of Suburbia is autobiographical : thereafter Karim and Hanif go their separate ways , only getting back on to the same tracks when they both flee north of the river to west London . |
| 8 | ‘ What 's the matter , San ? ’ the fat woman asked for about the fifth time since they had all trooped in out of the cold . |
| 9 | Then Edgley found an unplayable lie off the tee ; James could only hack out on to the fairway and Dorset lost the hole to a five . |
| 10 | The sloop apparently ran straight on to the top of the bank under sail in spite of the fact that the top of the bank is 10 m ( 30 ft ) above the level of high spring tides.Jutson ( 1939 ) has pointed to a series of generally narrow platforms cut mainly in almost horizontal rocks in New South Wales and extending up to a height of 10 m ( 30 ft ) or more . |
| 11 | Why , after two years , should he suddenly zero in out of the blue ? |
| 12 | Some , like Lucie , were confident that Death had long since moved on out of the village . |
| 13 | The Warlords had already marched right out of the arena . |
| 14 | It was partly the comment itself , partly the way it had been delivered , dead pan , a little gem just plucked unwittingly out of the air . |
| 15 | … which soon flies right out of the window ! . 40% |
| 16 | We keep ourselves to ourselves , Joan and I. There was a frightful nosy American in the summer who just turned up out of the blue and told us how honoured we must be , having the old bat 's relics up here . |
| 17 | Her mother was already clambering laboriously down from the seat beside the driver , displaying a lumpy mass of grey woollen stocking and woollen knickers in the process . |
| 18 | He just showed up out of the blue one day while Nathan was working . |
| 19 | She did n't look at me as she came in , just walked straight up to the bar . |
| 20 | I was in London when they happened — I just walked straight out of the Tube station and I was in the middle of a mass demonstration . ’ |
| 21 | I was in London when they happened — I just walked straight out of the Tube station and I was in the middle of a mass demonstration . ’ |
| 22 | a car behind me , the car behind that just pulled out on to the wrong side of the road , sat there looking and decided not to and pulled back |
| 23 | She began to pace about and finally went out on to the balcony to watch the mountains and try to take her mind off a pain that she was sure would keep her awake all night . |
| 24 | We 'll just walk quietly down behind the tree cover and bag two of those beauties . |
| 25 | Benjamin and I just stared speechlessly down at the abbey , then up at the great Tor . |
| 26 | ‘ I know how much we have already put in up to the end of 1992 and I know what we could be asked for for 1993 , ’ Longuet said , but the size of the sums is to embarrassing for him to reveal them — but he did say they were incompatible with what the European Commission would allow and what French taxpayers wanted . |
| 27 | I 'm forever putting him on diets but he just runs straight round to the local kebab shop and puts away three large doners and a rum baba . |
| 28 | There was nothing more he could say : all that remained was to turn from her , pick up his bundle of clothes and hurry to catch up his father and Mr Bryant , who were already striding away down to the harbour . |
| 29 | The caterpillars will soon crawl across on to the new leaves . |
| 30 | Very , very slow moving there indeed , and it 's going very very slowly heading out on to the A40 . |