Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he went on gazing out of the window , drawing on it with his finger until Mrs Hollins came out and rapped on the glass . |
| 2 | And he goes on gazing out of the window . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Red crew gained a length by the mile post and 2 ½ by Hammersmith Bridge , but the freshmen hung on to lose by about the same margin , six seconds behind Red Alligator 's winning time of 19min 46sec . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time . |
| 8 | ‘ He very rarely goes out in the evenings . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Right sit up on the chair and we 'll read the story of the jumble sale . |
| 15 | Activists are illegally dismissed , strikes are forcibly broken up by the army or police and many unionists have been killed . |
| 16 | It may paper over things and succeed in buying time , but it can not overcome the class-based conflicts that will eventually bubble up to the surface . |
| 17 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 18 | I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager . |
| 19 | As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England . |
| 20 | The Cult of Pleasure is revealed as being secretly given over to the worship of Slaanesh . |
| 21 | The Foreign Secretary stressed , however , that aid on its own can never ensure reform is successfully carried through in the two countries . |
| 22 | George Stephen remembered how as a youth he heard ‘ many a semi-domestic debate as to the extent to which parliamentary manoeuvring could be successfully carried out with the ministerial benches ’ . |
| 23 | In the 1990s there was only the hope that her fires , so vigorously stoked up by the dispossessed , would begin to burn down of their own accord . |
| 24 | It leaves me like a right fool out in the bloody open . ’ |
| 25 | The other end of the rainbow was presumably curled up inside the cloud . |
| 26 | She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole . |
| 27 | This division of the sky was eventually carried over to the division of the circle and so led to our present habit of dividing the complete ( two-dimensional ) angle around a point into 360 degrees . |
| 28 | ‘ I was all right walking down to the pit until I met the group of supporters then I had to crack . ’ |
| 29 | Wage inflation may well be the consequence of excess demand in the labour market , but it is also the means by which excess demand is eventually squeezed out of the system . |
| 30 | Most previous research , predominantly carried out in the USA , focuses on single aspects of the promotion process such as appraisal systems , psychological tests , career development systems , plateauing and sponsor-protege relationships . |