Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The ‘ it ’ was presumably the wound rather than the child , but the woman was upset that she had no time to ask if her child would be all right .
2 So I went to a very good secondary school but I was in the A one stream right the way through and I was always within that top three of that A one stream and it gave me confidence and I really got on .
3 We used to work there from half past twelve till five o'clock at night , taking the bucket out and put another bucket in because the buckets what they used to call the bushes what were connected to the links they used to wear and we used to have to take them , one of them out and used to have a big chain go right the way round and bring the , bring the buckets backwards and they used to loosen up all the , all the pins what used to go through the buckets in the , in the links , so we took them out and then they used to go up to the dock and br they put new bushes in .
4 Now there are cars parked right the way up and even on to the roundabout , and I think a lot of these erm persons erm with the cars are probably from the Polytechnic .
5 Yeah , erm , we , we thought we 'd got him calmed down at one point and he started up again and he was like that right the way up till I went to fetch Emily
6 We 'll just have to tell everybody , she goes , right the way down and straight over the top
7 You know walked right the way down and you could n't see
8 Young pulled right the way across and the traffic lights were obviously red .
9 So the urge to innovate ceased and eventually the instrument all but died .
10 I think , I think we need a meeting to get it laid down , we need a meeting to clear the air or not clear the air necessarily but get some definitions some definitions down yeah ?
11 He looked at his wife 's portrait which hung on the wall opposite where he sat .
12 They considered the saleability of a washstand , a swinging mirror , a flowered pottery basin and jug , and then as they descended by the back stairs , the plates in dull red and dark blue and gold glaze that hung on the wall there and might , from the hieroglyphs on their backs , possibly be Chinese and perhaps valuable .
13 ‘ You know she carried on the business alone when her father died , got guts has that girl . ’
14 Washing hung on the line outside and their £10,000 car was in the drive .
15 if it requires a recall of emotion , it is often sufficient merely to switch on the emotion rather than elicit it ( as when you trip over the cat ! ) .
16 I drove down the afternoon before and was put up in a small hotel near the studios .
17 The intelligence officers , having failed to allow for Double Summertime , which had been introduced the night after the first ‘ Hess ’ flight , were on the point of standing down the op just as the bombers droned into hearing .
18 And you just look down the route now and decide whether they 're achievable or realistic .
19 He slammed down the snifter again and flung his hands on to his hips .
20 Tim climbed down the tree just as Pegs came back into the garden .
21 I 've never seen people eat chips , cos you know how you get sick of chips sometimes , we 's shovelling down the chips down and coke , proper coke they were drinking .
22 I careered down the snow-slope below and sat in the shelter of a boulder to watch Roger abseil down the ice pitch , coiled the ropes and climb carefully down to join me for a marvellously welcome brew under the Shelter Stone .
23 Boy wound down the window so that he could see the stars better , and then he made the man kiss him , right there .
24 At the top of the steps , she stopped , and put down the basket so that she could knock .
25 Balor was going to let down the drawbridge so that they could ride across it .
26 There is a habit of running down the competition rather than extolling the virtues of their own ranges .
27 The photovoltaic cell is , at present , the object of a great deal of research and investment but progress must yet be made in the chemistry of certain materials , particularly silicium , to bring down the cost fiftyfold before this method becomes economical .
28 Yes , let's break down the barriers completely and have a magazine that appeals to everybody , and read by nobody .
29 Bit of that that we do in year ten eleven can that be transferred down the line so that there 's a similar type of thing
30 This belief persisted down the centuries so that by Gerard 's time , he was still able to quote the tag : " Ego Borage gaudia semper ago " ( I Borage , bring always courage ) .
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