Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | He rarely veers away from the subject of relationships ( ‘ Go Out And Get 'Em Boy ! ’ , |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This extraordinary story was ruthlessly edited down to its allotted span and eventually tucked away in the last of four hour-long programmes . |
| 7 | That the latter seems to be chosen overwhelmingly testifies not to the existence of coercion , but to careful selection procedures for placing persons in corporate positions coupled with successful methods of persuading them that their interests and the corporation 's interests happily coincide — or at least , that that is the most sensible , pragmatic way of looking at it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ He very rarely goes out in the evenings . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Now empty , decay and neglect are slowly eating away at the building 's fabric . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Right sit up on the chair and we 'll read the story of the jumble sale . |
| 22 | Activists are illegally dismissed , strikes are forcibly broken up by the army or police and many unionists have been killed . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 27 | That little faith went on to go right round the world and it 's here today . |
| 28 | Flotation has become properly developed only in the past 30 years : it was certainly not available to the ‘ old men ’ who ran the mines last century . |
| 29 | Market expectations are for little change upwards in the RPI from the latest figure of 7.3 per cent . |
| 30 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |