Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hole goes right through to the inner mechanism and was therefore the source of the oil leak , 19 this hole necessary for the diaphragm to work independent of the crankcase pressure fluctuations or is there some kind of seal missing or broken ? |
| 2 | The quiet period starts on the eighteenth of May and it goes right through until the twenty first of June . |
| 3 | This Aladdin goes right back to the 1,001 Nights , showing us Scheherezade ( Eartha Kitt ) being turned into the Genie of the Ring and the Caliph of Baghdad ( Sylvester McCoy ) into the Slave of the Lamp by the Grand Vizier Abanazer ( Peter Blake as a deliciously over-the-top wicked uncle ) . |
| 4 | Its colour void led to clean , efficient lines which had an appeal that passed right down to the high street . |
| 5 | But the steady drip of disclosures , which appears certain to continue right up to the general election later this year , could yet prove fatal to the Congress ( I ) Party 's chances of remaining in power . |
| 6 | The local army base , a corrugated fortress with a spindly camera tower , is pressed right up against a primary school . |
| 7 | The restoration of this historic fighter has been completed right down to the last detail , it carries a complete set of camera ports , although the cameras have not been fitted . |
| 8 | Hereford cattle have a long pedigree … they can be traced right back to the red cattle of Roman Britain . |
| 9 | Mrs Knelle 's garden — or perhaps I should say ‘ grounds ’ — meandered gently down to the narrow lakeside road . |
| 10 | Thomas was motor-crazy , she thought , gazing fondly down at the small dungareed figure . |
| 11 | There 's that drinks thing where you sit all round on the high stalls you know |
| 12 | He heard a gasp from the crowd of people gathered below , he seemed to hang forever in mid-air and then , miraculously , he was crashing down on to the opposite roof . |
| 13 | And it 's unlikely that Chas 's grandfather got much out of the British Empire beyond , in all probability , two or three years spent serving as a soldier in India , two or three years off the dole queue . |
| 14 | Huy 's job was to tamp this second layer down on to the first . |
| 15 | The tram schoogled away again , and Maggie gazed eagerly out at the passing scene . |
| 16 | ‘ You see — we did n't wake the children , after all , ’ Ross drawled , his eyes glinting with amusement as he gazed warmly down at the soft figure in his arms . |
| 17 | behind the antique shop , and we went along and had a look and at ten o'clock it had dropped right down to the second step from the bottom roughly |
| 18 | He stood for a while , watching the pyrotechnic chaos in the yard below , then moved slowly back into the banqueting hall . |
| 19 | We know more about Milton , his personal concerns and his literary plans than we do about any other poet of his time , and indeed it may be that we have to come right up to the nineteenth century before we learn so much about the inner life of any poet . |
| 20 | To date it is a subtle but important change of mood that , with luck , will grow stronger over the winter — allowing spring to bring those green shoots of recovery that the Treasury and the Chancellor have been banging on about for the last two years . |
| 21 | She watched as Simon wandered on through into the all-white kitchen , the door swinging shut behind him . |
| 22 | A few minutes later , Sir Thomas was walking slowly back to the Imperial Hotel in advance of the main party . |
| 23 | Sun struck across the room , bounced fiercely up from the shiny surfaces of containers littering the floor and tossed shadows from the drawers and furniture which had been hurled about . |
| 24 | He sank down on to a convenient chair and shook his head dolefully . |
| 25 | Ominously , she could n't even see the road when she peered down out of the high window . |
| 26 | And slick pictures of pretty young people who seem to have nothing better to do than make amateur porn videos — often appearing in up to a dozen different tapes . |
| 27 | She handed over a neatly wrapped ‘ mixed bunch ’ to one customer , with a chatty , ‘ Here you are , love , ’ and moved swiftly on to the next . |
| 28 | I revived as I felt myself go hurtling through the air and crashed down on to the wooden planks of the scaffold . |
| 29 | In central London , a middle-aged woman had a lucky escape when a 40ft tree crashed down on to an open-top bus on Victoria Embankment . |
| 30 | A man was actually charged with the crime at a Glasgow police station after walking in out of the blue and making a confession . |