Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If on the other hand it goes right through the C/L continue your turn and make a 40° intercept the other way ( ie onto Hdg 130° in fig 52 ) . |
| 2 | He was like the bloke who you saw right through the film overseeing the whole operation , just standing there sticking little pins into a map . |
| 3 | Fly right to the platform under the last button you hit , go up and collect the arrow , go down and right , go left and right through the platforms to get to the bottom , at the bottom go up the other side of the wall , collect the star and fly left over the spikes , collect the arrow and recharge your flying abilities on the star , fly right and go down , go right to the star in the grass , collect it and fly up , push the crate down , fall down . |
| 4 | There were weeks of unremitting frost , occasional snowstorms , and periods of rain that seemed to soak right through the body to chill the bones . |
| 5 | Let's begin by assuming that your plot actually has somewhere for a garage to stand . |
| 6 | All of the Hollywood gloss and glitter was up front in the square where the lines formed and the buskers milked , but the alley was just a mean crack with high walls of featureless brick , somewhere to hide the trash cans and somewhere for the tramps to sleep . |
| 7 | These two guys are meant to be on a Gipsy Working Party , finding somewhere for the gipsies to live , and all they can do is argue about it . |
| 8 | The assumption is commonly made that the decisions to be taken in caring for such patients , the therapeutic strategy to be adopted , are wholly medical matters , and thus wholly for the doctors to make , with or without discussion with the patient . |
| 9 | The Nazi-imposed rules for managing the Kindertransporte were made more restrictive in early 1939 , presumably as an attempt to disguise from decent citizens what was being perpetrated in their name . |
| 10 | The snails will eat the foam , presumably for the microflora living on it , or perhaps by mistake . |
| 11 | My lack of means is extreme , granted , and I look bad , skin white , mouth chapped , body apparently even shorter than usual , eye roaming and I daresay a bit fretful , trousers in bad shape , attention astray for a book lying around to pinch or even an old magazine , since I sold a few volumes I should now like to have kept , in exchange for a slug of what turned out to be the world 's nastiest though cheapest whiskey . |
| 12 | He had made no attempt to pursue the fleeing secretary and was sitting as if in a trance staring somewhere between the chairs occupied by the new Lord Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan . |
| 13 | The actual uniqueness of life probably lies somewhere between the extremes represented by Statement 1 and Statement 3 . |
| 14 | Work went on through the night to scatter wood chippings , straw and stone on top of the mud , but traders say it 's too little , too late . |
| 15 | And so he went on through the calculator to get the number of ways for ten buttons — 3,628,800 . |
| 16 | He was way ahead of the rest of the field and battled on through the afternoon trying to win those valuable championship points . |
| 17 | One could almost imagine oneself back into the Middle Ages but for the fact that technology has marched on through the centuries to replace rough-hewn bows of Yew with fibreglass ones , equipped with very advanced sights . |
| 18 | Robinson , 38 , who began his West career as a winger 20 years ago but has played mostly as a back row forward , will also play for Darlington next season . |
| 19 | In the 1930s , when the Japanese perceived that the Americans , British , Chinese and Dutch , were threatening their supplies of oil and raw materials they coined the term ‘ ABCD encirclement ’ , and used it eventually as an excuse to start the Pacific War . |
| 20 | With gliders which have a front wheel or main skid , a main wheel just behind the c.g. and a tail-wheel or skid like the K13 , Grob 103 , ASK21 , Puchazc , Schweitzer 233 and most of the older single seaters , it may be necessary to ease back a little during the take-off run to raise the front wheel or skid . |
| 21 | Tom seemed very casual now , as if he had recently found the answer to some burdensome question and could relax at last , and he teased both Belinda and Mrs Porter mercilessly about the Christmas presents they had given and received . |
| 22 | As my darling new mother ( whom I loved ) moved radiantly about the room introducing Derek , who had just directed Equus at the Contact Theatre , to Bryan , who was a freelance journalist specializing in film , or Karen , who was a secretary at a literary agency , to Robert , who was a designer ; as she spoke of the new Dylan album and what Riverside Studios was doing , I saw she wanted to scour that suburban stigma right off her body . |
| 23 | I was watching the Scum Derby on Sky this weekend , and managed to catch some of the phone-in afterwards , where someone was going on about an Autobiography written by the froggy himself . |
| 24 | And the woman — whose name , it happened , was Aurora — whittered on about an infidelity performed against her by a titled husband , an imminent divorce , a Sunday paper scandal . |
| 25 | As cricket chairman Close raged on about the decision to sign West Indies batsman Richie Richardson instead of a genuine quickie he was told : ‘ You find one and we 'll sign him . |
| 26 | For the past 150 years our politicians have been droning on about the need to train the British worker to the level of the German , oblivious to the somewhat obvious fact that we are not Germans so can not be expected to behave like them . |
| 27 | Because you were the one who kept going on about the need to keep it secret . |
| 28 | He said it was all right for the pot to come off and for him to walk on the injured foot . |
| 29 | I filed that away and asked if it was all right for the girls to stay until the doctors had done their rounds . |
| 30 | So while it was wrong for the IRA to let off bombs in Northern Ireland it was quite all right for the DGSE to let them off in New Zealand . |