Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The food at the hotel is mostly flown in from Vienna , so staying at Fudauri is Georgian extra-extra luxury .
2 I hope he will eventually dip back into that area .
3 Walking the floor to prove to yourself it was not rising to crush your bed as the walls slowly gathered in towards you and the ceiling lowered itself steadily downwards until it was an inch above your face .
4 Picketline disorder eventually spilled over into mining communities , which became the sites of major disturbances .
5 The relationship between Government educationists and villagers was a political one , and created the seeds of resentment and conflict that eventually spilled over in 1979 with the overthrow of the Shah .
6 When the shepherd eventually limped back to civilisation and told his unlikely tale , the authorities located the treasure and imprisoned the shepherd for theft .
7 All three pupils are now following A-level course work at Aquinas College , Stockport and hope eventually to go on to university .
8 As Speaker O'Neill forcibly pointed out to the newly elected President Carter , tactics that had worked in the relatively sedate politics of Georgia were unlikely to be effective in Washington .
9 Stay in this position for some time , then slowly sit up through a curved spine — a great way to relax !
10 However , outwardly cool , calm and composed , and trying to use up as many minutes as possible , she slowly got out of her car and , just as slowly , moved to the stout front door of the imposing building .
11 And , yes , I saw the incident at Southampton , where Mark Nicholas was eventually given out to a disputed close catch and then brought back to the crease .
12 SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone .
13 Diniz also had stayed , and had found his way out into the yard , and the broken pillars of the loggia , where he had found somewhere to sit out of the wind .
14 The man nodded and smiled all over again — rather encouragingly , this time — and then , smiling in a somewhat more valedictory sort of way , edged slowly back out through the door .
15 This idea has long since fallen out of favour ; it is much more likely that the two components of a pair were born at the same time and in the same region of space , from the same cloud of dust and gas .
16 Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time .
17 ‘ The Mediterranean peoples rarely sit down to dinner much before nine . ’
18 Apparently , though , it was not etiquette , a reality laughingly pointed out to her by Glyn when they had started going out with each other on a regular basis .
19 They gamely fought back to 27-20 with a Rob Myler try 10 minutes from time .
20 ‘ He very rarely goes out in the evenings . ’
21 Slowly struggling up from the depths of deep unconsciousness , Laura flicked open her eyelids , only to shut them firmly again as she winced at the brilliant sunshine flooding in through the windows of the bedroom .
22 It is assumed instead that , each time a logogen reaches its threshold , the value of that threshold is lowered ; and this value then slowly drifts up towards what it had been , but never quite reaches the previous level .
23 Do you remember when as a child you would stand transfixed , gazing up at the grandfather clock , with your little heart beating faster and faster as the minute hand slowly crept up to the hour when suddenly , with magical ringing chimes it burst into life .
24 But , oh dear , in antithesis Freud , Jung , Fromm and the women 's movement slowly crept up on us .
25 ‘ He very politely pointed out in each case , ’ recalled Mountbatten , ‘ that it was not the way he would have phrased it , and so it remained virtually unchanged .
26 Stand with the feet together and slowly raise up on tiptoes , then lower the heels down again .
27 The project was first brought on stream three years ago , slowly building up to its present day output of 750m generating units .
28 If you want to get in close enough to see the detail of his beautiful body markings , you wo n't be able to include much of his neck which will be mostly sticking out through the top of the frame .
29 On Aug. 8 the British hostage John McCarthy was released in Beirut ; he was swiftly transported to the Syrian capital , Damascus , and thence flown back to the United Kingdom .
30 The material being drilled is effectively broken up by the drill bit , and the rotary action of the drill bit is primarily to remove debris from the hole .
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