Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bannen tried to take his son 's hand , but his fingers passed right through the simularity field . |
| 2 | With a dado rail you would hang all of one type first , but we did n't do this as we needed both pieces wet so we could cut right through the overlap point with a sharp knife and remove both pieces of waste to leave a perfect butt joint . |
| 3 | Relatively recently , feminist scholars , now drawn closer through common experience to an older generation many of whose values they had challenged , have extended their concerns and pushed forward a more subtle questioning of women 's experience of ageing and how it might differ from men 's as a result of inequalities right through the life cycle . |
| 4 | In the past , death struck right through the life cycle . |
| 5 | His red beard has grown very long , right through the stone table ; when it has encircled the table three times it will be the time of awakening . |
| 6 | In particular , eruptions vary in size ; some , but not all , penetrate right through the boundary layer and contribute to the intermittency at its outer edge . |
| 7 | I knocked on it but it was so dilapidated that I could see right through the door frame and into a large room where a man was sitting in a kitchen chair , dressed in trousers and vest . |
| 8 | ‘ We went right through the town centre and all the people doing their Saturday shopping stood and clapped and shouted messages of support as we went by . ’ |
| 9 | This year 's battle of the budget is generating more anguish than any for years , John Major 's cabinet now realize what a parliamentary mess December might turn into with week-long debates on both the Queen 's speech and the budget to pack in , and worse to come in the spring , a budget combining taxes with public spending seemed a good idea at the time Norman Lamont announced it , but with November the thirtieth just a month away the political down-side is appearing , of course with a fifty billion pound deficit in the Government 's accounts this years spending round would have been hard pounding anyhow , but the usual noisy haggle over the available cash among departments is now amplified by posses of Tory backbenchers trying to head off this or that tax increase , and there 's an incentive to keep that up right through the finance bill after Christmas , since most new taxes would not come in until April . |
| 10 | It looks like they 're going to announce it by stealth , one pit at a time and take it right through the review procedure at three month stages . |
| 11 | But it projected enthusiasm , delight and knowledge right through the television screen and it made Peter within a few months well-known to millions of people who had never imagined that they had any interest in natural history . |
| 12 | In the presence of a few hundred Masai , the young warrior hurled his spear right through the district officer 's heart . |
| 13 | Among the many tours available , the Ghost Walk of York will take you on a quite literally ‘ haunting ’ tour , while a river tour along the Ouse takes you right through the city centre . |
| 14 | He guessed that somewhere aboard the survey vessel a meeting was in progress to determine whether or not the quarantine regulations were to be obeyed , and whether that adherence meant that he ought to be abandoned . |
| 15 | It is worth saying that this Bill has nothing to do with privatisation or the Rothschild report ; it will give the tools to British Coal so that it can compete successfully for the coal contract post-April 1993 . |
| 16 | And somewhere through the hotel muzak lurks the sensation that things used to be different , that we ( my brother and I ) had n't always been wrapped in jumpers , silent , staring at the screen , that the days used to be hot and long . |
| 17 | Her face was a tragic mask , that of a woman who has sent all her sons to a war and waits hourly for the death telegram . |
| 18 | Trade unions were already suffering , and the implementation of the decision to return to the gold standard augured badly for the staple export industries . |
| 19 | The the Weber parts for the Weber clarinet conc concertino are somewhere between the music library in Nottingham and the library here and should reach me a week tomorrow . |
| 20 | They took to the path with gusto , he finding the line somewhere between the nearside bank and the middle ridge , while the other more or less followed in the wake , content to orchestrate himself around the camera with his umbrella . |
| 21 | The general rule is that problems which can not be solved at lower levels are referred upward through the organisation structure until the problem reaches an official with enough authority and power to solve the problem . |
| 22 | It bucked wildly in the night sky , as if deciding whether or not Richard Branson had been lucky enough already , then righted itself and plied on through the night sky , swift and inviolate . |
| 23 | Creggan moved on through the night wind . |
| 24 | She could hear the rising engine-note of the Corporation buses as they pulled away from the stop at the corner , coming from nowhere either of them had ever heard of , going on through the gathering winter dusk to destinations equally obscure . |
| 25 | Mostly about the Groucho Club . |
| 26 | Snow piled against it , threatening to destroy it , but this helped to protect it eventually as the snow wall hardened and compacted . |
| 27 | I think what attracted me most about the country round was its Englishness , meadows deep in grass and wild flowers , and willows wherever there was water . |
| 28 | The 14 were the financiers of the wildly popular numbers racket known locally as the animal game , the jogo do bicho . |
| 29 | However , by August , when it was obvious that there was no family accommodation to be found in town , I was forced to take on a croft cottage about seven miles to the north of Stornoway on the Eye Peninsula , known locally as the Point district . |
| 30 | The busiest time for the King 's Lynn depot is between October and February , during what is known locally as the sugar beet ‘ campaign ’ or harvest . |