Example sentences of "was [verb] right [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This waistcoat had flap-pockets and reached down almost to the knees : it was fastened right up to the neck with horse-shoe buttons , leaving just enough space for the red-spotted muffler or wrapper to be seen underneath . |
| 2 | It split the glass , entered the left closed eye , and was buried right up to the hilt . |
| 3 | ‘ It was Lying right up on the shoal . ’ |
| 4 | On the far side of the pond was the old ford and Mum used to tell us that this was the route to the city taken by carts before the building of the old Harnham Bridge in the fourteenth century , although I expect it was used right up to the advent of the motor car . |
| 5 | The major limb bones also showed signs of erosion , particularly of prominent ridges and crests , but breakage did not occur until very advanced stages of abrasion when the bone was worn right through across a prominence , and this only occurred after the bones were extensively rounded . |
| 6 | There was no doubt that its foreleg was broken : it was bent right out to the side from the knee . |
| 7 | Her initial plan was to run right up to the birth , but on her doctor 's advice she stopped four months into the pregnancy . |
| 8 | Then , towards the end of January , people noticed that at least one boar was coming right up to the village in its nighttime foraging : there were tracks in the snow and patches of scratched earth where it had been digging for roots . |
| 9 | His face was burned right down to the bone in places , and one eye had curdled into a white lump . |
| 10 | It also had one of the longest lives as it was working right up to the late 1940s . |