Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] 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 | In the C2 10km race the Trains were drawn in lane 1 and paddled right up the centre of the course towards the first turn , avoiding the jostling in the middle , reminiscent of Stephen 's lone paddle at Poznan . |
| 7 | Not a great big 60-odd ball that is gon na be straight on the centre of the Z. |
| 8 | 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 . |