Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crops were stacked right up to the roof ridge , or close to it , so using almost all the roof space . |
| 2 | Lesley turned smartly left as the lights changed , and wound her way by back-streets to the parking-ground on the edge of the shopping centre , a multi-storey monstrosity of raw concrete , at which she gazed with resigned distaste as she crept slowly up to the barrier and drove in to the second tier . |
| 3 | As they crept slowly forward over the plain his eyes searched for those tiny villages made of mud with their bamboo groves and their ponds ; and though the plain was perfectly flat the villages were somehow hidden in its folds , blending with it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Again and again he swiped at Chloe , but she remained convinced that this was a game and every time her friend approached she darted away and went to sit somewhere else in the clearing , her tail brushing the ground frantically . |
| 6 | When the little animal is disturbed it burrows furiously down into the ground until it has completely disappeared except for its horny rump . |
| 7 | and that goes right up to the window yeah , and the time that , we had seven firms |
| 8 | The hole goes right through to the inner mechanism and was therefore the source of the oil leak , 19 this hole necessary for the diaphragm to work independent of the crankcase pressure fluctuations or is there some kind of seal missing or broken ? |
| 9 | It goes right through to the bathroom does n't it ? |
| 10 | The quiet period starts on the eighteenth of May and it goes right through until the twenty first of June . |
| 11 | If , however , top-selling weekly music papers are more your cup of tea , then this well-worn proverb goes right out of the window . |
| 12 | This Aladdin goes right back to the 1,001 Nights , showing us Scheherezade ( Eartha Kitt ) being turned into the Genie of the Ring and the Caliph of Baghdad ( Sylvester McCoy ) into the Slave of the Lamp by the Grand Vizier Abanazer ( Peter Blake as a deliciously over-the-top wicked uncle ) . |
| 13 | ‘ It had to be Windsor , too — not Balmoral or Sandringham but the castle that goes right back to the Normans — and the Queen 's favourite chapel , stripped to a skeleton of its former self . |
| 14 | Sam said , frowning , ‘ You ca n't have dived out under the curtain , it goes right down to the river bed . ’ |
| 15 | The legislation was resented bitterly enough by the Netherlands to lead to a war in which the English Republic was able to assert itself against the Dutch Republic . |
| 16 | However , at the end of the film , the car driven by Mark ( Sean Connery ) drives right down to the end of the road , and instead of falling into the ( non-existent ) harbour , turns right into a previously unsuspected street or quay along its edge and disappears from view . |
| 17 | Its colour void led to clean , efficient lines which had an appeal that passed right down to the high street . |
| 18 | The Warlords had already marched right out of the arena . |
| 19 | It arose most acutely in the United States which welcomed immigrants but also put pressure on them to turn themselves into English-speaking American citizens as soon as possible , since any rational citizen would wish to be an American . |
| 20 | Rates have fallen most sharply in the South East , where the going rate now averages £3.80 a week , £1.40 less than last year . |
| 21 | Signed to a major label , The Wedding Present sit rather awkwardly on the edge of acceptance into mainstream pop . |
| 22 | But the steady drip of disclosures , which appears certain to continue right up to the general election later this year , could yet prove fatal to the Congress ( I ) Party 's chances of remaining in power . |
| 23 | Ralph sat in the driving seat of his car , inching slowly forward with the snaking traffic jam stretching along the road . |
| 24 | As Athelstan and Benedicta rode slowly back across the dark , choppy waters of the Thames , Adam Horne left the Crutched Friars monastery near Mark Lane just north of the Tower . |
| 25 | Something else I 've left hanging rather dangerously in the air is another and rather different hint , and because of the close correspondence of their careers , the milestones along their way , Stephen Daedalus is merely another name for James Joyce , so that the portrait itself would be a blow by blow account of its author 's story so far , with the relevant identities politely concealed under pseudonyms . |
| 26 | She left the Tyne yesterday for six days of sea trials and ‘ our worry is that it will not come back to the river but will be completed somewhere else in the UK ’ , he said . |
| 27 | Many thatched cottages were built on the brow of a hill overlooking the sea ; and a large potato-field , divided into elongated sections , gave ample scope for many Lewis families to prove that union is strength , for they were busily engaged lifting the crop : each family group was complete in itself ; those who had the most children got most quickly over the ground : many hands make light work , and young backs bend easily . |
| 28 | A bath safety-rail made of chromium-plated tubular steel makes getting in and out of the bath much easier and safer ; and a bath seat with a back support eliminates the need to sit right down in the bath ( see Chapter 12 ) . |
| 29 | It holds regular ministerial meetings to co-ordinate different aspects of policy amongst the Gulf States , including most controversially in the defence and security fields . |
| 30 | Since 1925 , it is true , gas has been used in some conflicts , including most recently in the Iran-Iraq war . |