Example sentences of "[adv] down the centre " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Fifth Avenue , sliced right down the centre of the island , felt liberatingly airy because of the gigantic proportions of every shape and space .
3 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 .
4 He is carried slowly down the centre aisle upon a cushioned palanquin , borne upon the naked shoulders of four local May Queens .
5 She lived in the Palestinian camp at Rashidiyeh , a wretched four square miles of breeze-block huts and cabins relieved only by the occasional tree , a straggling plant hanging from a poorly made brick wall and an open sewer that snaked uneasily down the centre of the mud roads .
6 At one point , the original river bank , shored up by wire and stone , remained the only still point , actually down the centre of the fast-moving Trannon , so that it was a job to guess whether the buckling gabions had belonged originally to the left or to the right .
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