Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The grenade dropped right on to the cab floor in front of Rex .
2 They mounted the slight slope and , turning right on to the Westport road , walked towards the village .
3 She pulled Midnight 's head up off the grass , gathered him together and drew him delicately on to the garden path .
4 It was probably whilst flying high over an approaching enemy that one Goblin got a bit carried away , and steering himself as best as he could with his crude wings , crashed right down onto the enemy army .
5 Right down to the question mark at the end of their name , right ?
6 Sam said , frowning , ‘ You ca n't have dived out under the curtain , it goes right down to the river bed . ’
7 You saw right down to the Goya funeral grin
8 Before spawning in this artfully arranged cave , this pair of C. labiatum had cleared right down to the undergravel plate .
9 Its jet of steam neutralises the oils and greases on the carpet fibres , right down to the carpet base .
10 Very well , but then let us go right down to the south-west corner of the United States and lock at the Moenkopi and associated formations of Arizona .
11 Well if you did n't there 'd be so much change on the bail that they all start to fall off and there 'd be all one big muddle cos that and as chain coming down that used to come right down into the chain locker to the bottom of the ships .
12 round the barrel about three times round the barrel then right down into the chain locker but if you kept , let it ride what we used to call let it ride well well now it get so big then you have to run it all off cos you had one lever , that 's what you had and the steam valve could have all steamed .
13 No that 's only on at the weekends darling
14 As you go deeper in towards the centre laboratory you pass through progressively cleaner bio-medical zones , starting here with a shower .
15 The tide was rising : it came filtering gently in through the salt-marsh vegetation , washing up the beach and receding , leaving ribbons of foam along the sand .
16 1 Peel the pears and rub them all over with the cut side of the lemon .
17 Teague 's career looked all over after the world cup final … but he 's beaten off a shoulder injury and is back at his best … so too is Oxfordshire jockey Richard Dunwoody he rode five winners on saturday … today he won again on the Nicholson trained Now Your Talkin … he 's the top jockey with 40 winners … now he 's talkin … the Williams team from Didcot do n't do a lot of talking apart from Nigel of course but they 've swept the board in formula one this season …
18 Perhaps he might he better off in the works office ?
19 You would be better off in the personnel department .
20 so they 're probably better off in the sweat shop any way
21 At the end of the day , how a member state organises itself is entirely up to the member state itself .
22 Each triangular guyline is attached at two points halfway up on the pole sleeve 18in apart .
23 Sally was looking thoughtfully out of the hotel window and at the steady procession of passersby , a good proportion of whom were visitors , to judge by the number of cameras to be seen .
24 From the Furka summit the road is by way of Hospental and Andermatt and so back to the Gotthard road and to Wassen .
25 ‘ CHAMPAGNE ’ CHARLIE STRIDES PURPOSEFULLY OUT OF THE WESTMINSTER COUNTY COURT STILL PROFESSING HIS INNOCENCE
26 Pyjamas and track-suits and Ian Botham 's ridiculous dark spectacles under the Melbourne floodlights seemed mercifully remote until Michael Melluish , MCC 's youthful-looking president , just back from Australia , brought our thoughts gently back to the world scene of the '90s .
27 The food-finder might instead single out one other nest mate , and then lead it alone back to the food source .
28 Dougal was halfway back to the car park before it occurred to him that flight was not necessarily the wisest course of action .
29 He got the top off and a cup poured before lowering himself gingerly back into the driving seat and passing it over to Catherine .
30 ‘ This is a pleasant room — very charming , ’ he murmured , clearly absorbed by his own inner thoughts as he glanced idly around at the cream carpet and the matching raw silk curtains edging the windows .
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