Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I have I tell you I 've done that before now and then that one ends up right down in the bottom corner |
| 32 | Right down from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the 1960s one can indeed construct a counter-grandadology to Pearson 's ‘ history of respectable fears ’ . |
| 33 | If this happens , it is usually better to leave things for that year , and to take them right down after the next flowering . |
| 34 | The late sun setting over the mainland lays a bright path over the water , coming right in at the small bay . |
| 35 | It gives me great pleasure to announce that that would mean Cherwell District Council would have to disappear as well , and that would be another blip off the horizon erm but that what would happen you would therefore have a smaller authority , who would then become the Education Authority , and that would be would have to be , I think , somewhere in between the current District Council size in Cherwell or the Vale , of what about a hundred thousand , and the present county , which is rather more than half a million . |
| 36 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 37 | If he loses both he will still want to hang on in for the three autumn World Cup games in which England 's fate is still in his own hands . |
| 38 | Bunny stood at the window and stared wearily down into the lamp-lit street . |
| 39 | To pick them up , moisten the paint-brush slightly , draw out the bristles to make a fine point , and pick up a larva with the tip of the brush and put it gently on to the new plant . |
| 40 | She turned to look at him , and he drew her gently down on to the cool grass . |
| 41 | Each morning trucks from the factory bumped along a dust road and turned down on to the low gravel bank where we were moored . |
| 42 | Move down on to the second page then . |
| 43 | She flopped down on to the padded driver 's seat , planning to catch up on her sleep . |
| 44 | One hand was tangled in her hair , holding her down , and with the other he traced a line past her collarbone and down on to the softer flesh beneath , tugging the neckline of her dress lower and lower , until Folly could feel it brush the swollen aureoles of her breasts under the silk of her bra . |
| 45 | On other JAR matters , the Library staff restructuring has pushed a lot more work down on to the front desk staff , and I 'm sure that the effects will be noticed in future . |
| 46 | I picked up my cup and saucer and flopped down on to the half-moon hearthrug , curious as to what the desired effect of the substance was supposed to be , and wondering why it had n't worked , when I noticed the saucer felt thicker . |
| 47 | ’ He tossed them down on to the small saucer on the table . |
| 48 | Shadows wavered backwards through the green railings and down on to the sunken slipway leading to the chain-ferry . |
| 49 | We reached the edge of the cliff and flopped down on to the soft turf . |
| 50 | But there was nothing , and with a quick twist of her body she hoisted herself over the wooden rail to slither down on to the deserted deck . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | She did not weep silently like her mother in a web of hands and hair , but noisily , like a child , with great sobs and huge tears that splashed down on to the brown wool of her skirt to which little bits of hay still clung from the afternoon . |
| 53 | The move to Apollo Place brought Minton to an area long associated with artists ; through a circular window half-way up the stairs he looked down on to the next door studio which had once belonged to Turner . |
| 54 | We came out of the beach-hut belt and slid down on to the barrelling freeway . |
| 55 | However , as soon as it begins to accelerate smoothly , that movement is no longer necessary , and the control should be moved to get the glider balanced nicely on to the main wheel . |
| 56 | ‘ I do n't care ! ’ she told him rebelliously , scowling unhappily down at the small amount of red wine still in her glass . |
| 57 | Paralysed with terror , Evelyn gaped at the thundering carriage moving inexorably down towards the tiny girl like a horror in a nightmare . |
| 58 | Only in about the last quarter of the century did colour printing , in the form of chromolithographs , become at all usual ; and for expensive books , hand-colouring remained the norm well into the twentieth century . |
| 59 | Moving soundlessly on his thick rubber soles , he ghosted swiftly down to the lowest platform . |
| 60 | It became known that we were perilously short of hay because the haytiming on our pastures had been very poor that summer and it was impossible to bring enough in on the horse-drawn sledge on the few occasions we were able to get out . |