Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he heard anything he would not dream of doing anything about it but would go on gazing indifferently over the heads of his sheep . |
| 2 | Slowly push upwards with your right leg until it is almost straight . |
| 3 | Bernice could see Legion 's body splitting into a firework display of multi-coloured fronds , and slowly drawing together into a hairy black ovoid supported by three pipe-cleaner legs . |
| 4 | He rarely veers away from the subject of relationships ( ‘ Go Out And Get 'Em Boy ! ’ , |
| 5 | Our friend from the smoke , vigorously lashing away like a cab driver whipping a lazy horse , caught three . |
| 6 | It is not at all clear , however , whether the addition of the marginal note in the one , and its incorporation in the other , was prompted by new , and supposedly better , information or rather arose simply through a temporary confusion between father and son ( occasioned , perhaps , by something like the confusing apposition of " Mevlana Shams al-Din Fenari-oglu " in the Turan entry corresponding to 840 ) which was then , possibly , perpetuated through inadvertence . |
| 7 | ‘ Madam my mother , I would much much rather remain here with you . ’ |
| 8 | It had been raining heavily — and it was to go on raining heavily for another nine days . |
| 9 | The position of the tubes was fluoroscopically checked frequently during infusion . |
| 10 | This extraordinary story was ruthlessly edited down to its allotted span and eventually tucked away in the last of four hour-long programmes . |
| 11 | Further quantitative analysis may be carried out for consonant structure , liquid confusion , lengthening , palatalisation and order of acquisition of consonants , although this requires the test to be tape recorded and can be successfully completed only by someone with a sound knowledge of phonemic analysis . |
| 12 | Over the next few days Maggie slowly got closer to Ana de Santis . |
| 13 | Not only did it fail to achieve representation ( not surprising at under 1 per cent of the vote ) but it has since fallen apart in a long series of internecine conflicts ( which are too complex to describe here ) . |
| 14 | Bakker also argued that the brontosaur footprints found in the 1930s in the Cretaceous Texas limestone showed left and right footprints close to the trackway centreline , hinting that they walked upright . |
| 15 | The Infinite Wheel present four UK harmonised house cuts loosely gathered together under the same title , the ‘ Dream Of Dreams ’ mix holding the dancefloor tactics whilst the epic and trippy ‘ Big Blue Mix ’ and ‘ Bay Of Rainbows ’ melt into each other to create a floaty yet still club-viable waxing . |
| 16 | He glanced round the small untidy sitting room and saw Maidstone 's jacket on the back of a chair , presumably placed there by Franco . |
| 17 | The stone slabs are known as Nagacoils and are mostly placed there by childless wives who vow to install a ‘ snake-stone ’ if they are blessed with offspring ; probably the greatest desire of the average female Indian mentality . |
| 18 | Marie Brown is happy to stay with HRT to avoid vaginal dryness , a symptom that rarely goes away with time . |
| 19 | Now empty , decay and neglect are slowly eating away at the building 's fabric . |
| 20 | In the early 19th Century many yards were associated with a particular guild or craft with weavers , fullers , dyers , etc. gathering together for their convenience . |
| 21 | While the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century can not be wholly explained simply in terms of this general cultural and social upheaval , it was most certainly part of it . |
| 22 | For example , a male is rarely limited reproductively by his capacity to produce sperm but a female is restricted in her output of eggs . |
| 23 | The government published its White Paper on the Environment on Sept. 25 , 1990 but it was widely criticized both by politicians and by environmentalists as merely reiterating measures already incorporated into the Environmental Protection Bill which was going through parliament and was enacted on Nov. 1 , 1990 . |
| 24 | The control panel is discreetly tucked away on the front and is totally invisible when the spa is in use . |
| 25 | A small friendly old pub pleasantly furnished and discreetly tucked away behind The Scotsman office . |
| 26 | Eventually Helen spotted a reception desk , discreetly tucked away behind a large weeping fig ; they advanced across wastes of polished marble and were directed to a lift . |
| 27 | ESC founders Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington director and star of the Shakespeare tragedy say they would rather stay away from the Civic , one of the strongest dates on their world tours , than face the same problem again . |
| 28 | ‘ I would rather stay here with father and you , ’ said Tess , looking out of the window . |
| 29 | Anyway , I 'd rather stay here with you . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Well , would you rather stay here in this prison ? |