Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table . |
| 2 | All lit up , right down the coast there . |
| 3 | The Sox do not merely snatch defeat from the jaws of victory ; they reach right down the oesophagus to retrieve it . |
| 4 | There is a commitment within the company to develop worker 's skills right down the line , and this has been done through training and education schemes . |
| 5 | It was comparatively easy for the German troops to frustrate any rapid advance by Allied troops , particularly in the vast mountainous regions which stretch right down the centre of Italy . |
| 6 | Fifth Avenue , sliced right down the centre of the island , felt liberatingly airy because of the gigantic proportions of every shape and space . |
| 7 | He was right , a fire watcher came in saying that there was a stick of small unexploded bombs right down the Palace Road but that the junction of Munster and Dawes Road had had a hundred pounder and houses had gone . |
| 8 | These stripes run right down the body , but peter out near the base of the tail . |
| 9 | Riffs equated with biffs right down the line . |
| 10 | ‘ Right down the other end of the pipe , please , ’ said Gurder . |
| 11 | I decided the only thing to do was throw her in at the deep end and go right down the village high street , where the roads were busiest and noisiest with holiday-makers , and simply stand there trying to calm her down . |
| 12 | It is one of the few pubs in London where the landlord and his staff have mastered the art of pulling a really good pint of bitter : one with a creamy head which lasts right down the glass . |
| 13 | Instead of swallowing them , however , the eggs are taken into the vocal sac which is unusually large and extends right down the underside of the male 's body . |
| 14 | Right down the line . |
| 15 | The hotel was n't really big enough for her to get confused as she checked up whether to turn left or right down the passage . |
| 16 | The withdrawal showed how scared companies are of the negative publicity they might receive if they do not clean up their acts right down the line . |
| 17 | He decided to attack right down the landing path , diving from behind them , and he nudged his throbbing aircraft slightly to one side . |
| 18 | Busacher snorted , drank , and wandered over to look at the long table which had been set up right down the centre of Willi 's big living room . |
| 19 | On the appointed Saturday in October , Micky met me at the railway station and drove me ( in a fairly elderly Morris Oxford with a canvas hood ) right down the High as far as the University Church , and there he parked ( no problem then ) . |
| 20 | She watched , as , starting at the shoulder , he wound it right down the arm and the hand , covering the fingers , then wound it back up to the shoulder again . |
| 21 | ‘ Look at the intensity of the preparations for major matches , ’ he says , ‘ The expenses could not be met without sponsorship but it is also good to see this kind of money being used right down the line . |
| 22 | His party of three ships had travelled from Lisbon out to Malacca with Albuquerque , thence down the Strait and past the immense island of Borneo to the confused archipelago where all spices known to man grew in wild profusion . |
| 23 | The northern ( and earlier ) approach was by passes across the Ural mountains to the lower reaches of the river Obn and thence down the Ob Gulf by boat to the mouth of the Tazn which was ascended as far as a portage to the lower Yenisei ; from there they followed an eastward course up the Lower Tunguska river , crossing a portage to the Vilyui and so to the Lena . |
| 24 | From the board powers are frequently delegated to committees of directors or to individual board members , and thence down the managerial hierarchy . |
| 25 | Nothing for it but to go back the way you came , to Neu St Johann , thence down the Toggenburg valley through the resorts of Nesslau and Ebnat-Kappel to Wattwil . |
| 26 | An unshaded fitting glared weakly down the cellar steps . |
| 27 | Turning from the ugly sight of the old woman 's contorted features , she fled the room , running incontinently down the gallery to the stairs , unaware that Hector , barking excitedly , ran out after her . |
| 28 | Philip ran down the bracken bank to the gate and watched him run down the field to Mrs Wright who was walking slowly down the field . |
| 29 | Some people find it easiest to put the seeds in the palm of their cupped hand whilst gently tapping with the other hand so that the seeds are rolled slowly down the groove formed on the palm . |
| 30 | The policeman nodded again , took a folded sheet of paper from his tunic pocket , unfolded it , handed it to Horowitz and held a flashlight while the tax commissioner checked the numbers , moving his index finger slowly down the list . |