Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many elderly people have a wide range of interests , maintain them — if only through reading — right on into old age , and still enjoy the cut and thrust of discussion and debate ; but we have to accept the fact that for some , the main topics of conversation will be their own and other people 's health , past reminiscences , and family matters . |
| 2 | Turn left on road then after 30 yds turn right on to enclosed path up steps by National Trust sign for Stockham 's Hill . |
| 3 | A large , empty room with high , narrow windows through which the bright day filtered slowly on to various shades of brown . |
| 4 | Most are for three months or less , right down to over-night or at call . |
| 5 | The top half of it slides down over the bottom half so that it can be lowered right down to table-top level when a debate is going on and a speaker is sitting down . |
| 6 | It means giving the report to someone who knows little or nothing about the actual subject and asking them to say what they do n't understand about it , right down to individual words and sentences . |
| 7 | From there they go right down to northern Spain . |
| 8 | The third lies somewhere in between local and national revenue : the National Non-domestic Rate , which replaces the business rate , but the level of which is set nationally and the proceeds of which are pooled nationally ( separately for England and Wales ) and distributed to local authorities in proportion to their populations . |
| 9 | The slaves swung the axes low , with one accord , and the boy 's feet were cut from his legs , so that he fell suddenly on to bleeding stumps of leg . |
| 10 | Each Squig Hopper is moved randomly along with other compulsory movement at the start of the movement phase . |
| 11 | But police say that was only down to good fortune and not good driving . |
| 12 | Chester-le-Street Open , River Wear , 60 pegs ; tickets £7 all in from local tackle shops . |
| 13 | END OF THE ROAD : It was Fun while it lasted — but now it 's all over for downcast David Mellor as he is driven away from Westminster after announcing his resignation |
| 14 | The larnax was a clay sarcophagus , often with panelled sides and gabled lids , and elaborately decorated all over with painted images . |
| 15 | Then he covered himself all over with trailing strands of goose-grass and big burdocks and he even found ways to alter his smell . |
| 16 | When she had lugged her third skip up to the scribbling engine , she paused for a moment to watch Rose , who by now resembled a tar baby stuck all over with dirty wool . |
| 17 | In August , near Worth , he sent his mother " a memoir of the horribly devastated battlefield , scattered all over with countless mournful remains and reeking with dead bodies " and in December he wrote to a friend : " if one is to avoid losing all courage , one must not think of these frightful things any more " It is apparent how far removed this mood was from any chauvinistic or militaristic fervour — nor would we particularly expect any such fervour ( despite long established misconceptions about Nietzsche 's attitudes ) from one whose ideas of German nationhood were moulded so largely by the cultural preoccupations of a Hölderlin or a Schopenhauer . |
| 18 | Secure the cake to the cake drum ( with a little royal icing ) and brush all over with apricot glaze . |
| 19 | Brush all over with apricot glaze . |
| 20 | Place the paintbox on the cake drum , and brush all over with apricot glaze . |
| 21 | Schimmel was not an enthusiast of the classic , Attic black-figure pots , but favoured more eccentric pottery , typically the large Italo-geometric buffware askos ( last eighth or early seventh century BC ) in the form of a stylised bird decorated all over with abstract patterns amid a hunter and stag , sold to a Swiss dealer for $85,000 ( est. $30–50,000 ) and the merry group of three terracotta satyrs ( early fifth century ) characterised by expressive poses and gigantic erections , bought by the Cleveland Museum for $70,000 ( est. $15–25,000 ) . |
| 22 | New York is criss-crossed all over with fine dividing lines . |
| 23 | Dressed in a summer frock patterned all over with scarlet poppies , a scarlet silk scarf wound round her head , she looked devastatingly pretty . |
| 24 | The young man stood for a moment on an overhanging ledge of the bank , looking down at the water ; the dog swam round and round below ; the man 's body was flecked all over with light and the shadow patterns of leaves , so that he seemed some human extension of the place . |
| 25 | The façade is beautifully decorated all over with Romanesque carving , representing the Ascension and Second Coming in arcading and sculpture , and the remaining tower is similarly decorated ( 376 and 422 ) . |
| 26 | It was all over in bloody , yelling minutes , and the Scots swept on into the encampment itself . |
| 27 | She tensed all over in shocked denial . |
| 28 | The little fish has an eel-like body and a goby-like head covered all over in small spines and is extremely predatory . |
| 29 | Two further problems confronted the manager : was the national curriculum up to the age of 16 going to feed sensibly through to new policies which were emerging from the combination of general and vocational education from 16 to 19 ? |
| 30 | It is still touch and go whether Americans will go into the election feeling better off than four years ago or whether they will still be blaming their President for keeping them comparatively poor — that 's to say , better off on average than anybody else in the world but not by as much as before . |