Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nationalists as a party capable of national leadership — that is to say the VNQDD — had admittedly been destroyed but while the ICP was not much better off the difference was that the VNQDD never really recovered from French repression . |
| 2 | Gus Dudgeon : ‘ I was sitting back in my office and the internal phone rang and it was Tony Visconti , whose office was literally just down the hall . |
| 3 | This meant we could walk much further up the valley without re-tracing . |
| 4 | It could have been made by the indigenous people immediately after the conquest , or alternatively features such as the teeth could have been cut much later on the head . |
| 5 | I 'm so far up the creek myself that when they throw the book at me it 'll be the whole library . |
| 6 | ‘ She is now so far up the beach and has suffered so much damage that it would be physically impossible to get her off , ’ said Orkney 's Marine Pollution Officer , Captain Bob Sclater . |
| 7 | If I were to tell you that this record puts a dayglo platform DM so far up the mule 's rectum that its entrails squish through its clenched teeth , I do n't think that I could be justly accused of exaggeration . |
| 8 | A little transistor with a tin spike for an aerial was useless so far up the valley . |
| 9 | He considered buying a cake to eat , but while he was thinking about it he kept on walking , and thought it would look stupid to turn back so far up the street , so he did n't , though at the thought his stomach suddenly rumbled . |
| 10 | Once back in the ops room , I laid the boy flat on his back , so far down the mattress that his dropped foot hung over the edge at the bottom , just as I had seen the Australian nurse do when I watched her during her London visit the previous year . |
| 11 | But as it was I travelled only so far down the ramp and stuck there with my head and shoulders protruding into the street . |
| 12 | There is no ultimate theory , but there is an infinite sequence of theories that are such that any particular class of observations can be predicted by taking a theory sufficiently far down the chain . |
| 13 | There will not be much re-nationalisation , for example , and the top rate of tax will not be as high as it was under Mr Healey ( although it will start much lower down the scale ) . |
| 14 | From the road , Leck Fell declines in a mile-long slope to Ease Gill and its main concentration of potholes are reached in a ten-minute walk ; others , much lower down the slope , form part of the Ease Gill cave system and are too far to be visited if Gragareth is also in the itinerary . |
| 15 | Sometimes they would read our palms , finishing by giving them a little scratch that signified they were available — one scratch twenty douros , two scratches fifty douros and so on up the scale from an ‘ in and out ’ in the toilets or a ‘ short time ’ in a back room to a whole night in the brothel , with champagne and bath . |
| 16 | The group of circles formed a genus , and the genera could similarly be arranged in circles , and so on up the scale to higher groupings . |
| 17 | The syllabuses are labelled Class I , Class 2 and so on up the ladder . |
| 18 | This means , in a group of say ten hens , that the ‘ boss ’ hen is dominant to all the other nine hens , the second hen is subordinate to the boss hen but dominates the other eight , and so on down the hierarchy . |
| 19 | ‘ In those days the boys went into the church , the army , and so on down the family , and it fell to Charlie to go to the colonies . |
| 20 | To take a classic example , the big toe relates to the head , and so on down the body . |
| 21 | There was a time when five-star hotels were assumed to be better than four-star and so on down the line . |
| 22 | Directors , whether of social services or in the voluntary field , are notoriously cautious in the light of committee opinion ; so are assistant directors and managers , and so on down the line . |
| 23 | So I would suggest that regional and sub- regional policies need to occur much higher up the list and er perhaps I would put them at number one if not number two . |
| 24 | And he exited so violently down the throat of Hell that he ripped the tongue and set the snout bobbing as if Hell were about to sneeze . |
| 25 | Two of the overhead lights were on , one near her desk , another much farther down the room . |
| 26 | Almost rather not back the latterday England batsman ( 8 ) |
| 27 | He was already halfway down the hall . |
| 28 | Already in Out the narrator was obsessed with the mind 's capacity for erasing one version of a story and substituting another : ‘ We can make our errors in a thought and reject them in another thought , leaving no trace of error in us ’ ( 51/53 ) . |
| 29 | He was already half-way down the ladder when he shouted back at me , ‘ Do n't you want to come along , sister ? ’ |
| 30 | The hemiplegic leg is then lifted back to the floor , the trouser leg is pulled a little further up the thigh , and anchored in place by the patient crossing his unaffected leg over it . |