Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Went no , no , it 's not , it 's not peach melba , right down to the last detail |
| 32 | Its colour void led to clean , efficient lines which had an appeal that passed right down to the high street . |
| 33 | A TRIUMPHANT trompe-l'oeil ; fanatically detailed ( right down to the grainy film stock ) reconstruction of events in the Algerian war of independence from the French during 1954 –'57); that looks uncannily like documentary reality . |
| 34 | Dogs have been bred for many different tasks , from the massive guard dogs and fighting dogs right down to the little toy dogs and lap-dogs . |
| 35 | There is good evidence that the infall occurs right down into the central parsec , but at a much smaller rate than the overall mass inflow rate , suggesting that any accretion onto a central black hole is episodic . |
| 36 | I am glad now she did lose her budgie — and find it — because if she had n't she would n't have seen my puppy trapped right down in the hollow tree . |
| 37 | I have I tell you I 've done that before now and then that one ends up right down in the bottom corner |
| 38 | Right down from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the 1960s one can indeed construct a counter-grandadology to Pearson 's ‘ history of respectable fears ’ . |
| 39 | If this happens , it is usually better to leave things for that year , and to take them right down after the next flowering . |
| 40 | ‘ I wanted to write a thoughtful song about recent events , and it was important that I just did n't leap right in with an immediate gut reaction . ’ |
| 41 | His underwear will be perfectly all right in with the other clothes . |
| 42 | The late sun setting over the mainland lays a bright path over the water , coming right in at the small bay . |
| 43 | ‘ Somewhere in between the two , really . |
| 44 | The true model is probably somewhere in between the two . |
| 45 | It gives me great pleasure to announce that that would mean Cherwell District Council would have to disappear as well , and that would be another blip off the horizon erm but that what would happen you would therefore have a smaller authority , who would then become the Education Authority , and that would be would have to be , I think , somewhere in between the current District Council size in Cherwell or the Vale , of what about a hundred thousand , and the present county , which is rather more than half a million . |
| 46 | From there the road was downhill , so we were able to coast noiselessly down into the sleeping suburbs , then dismount and push the bike into the city centre . |
| 47 | He knew roughly where he was , or he knew in theory , and he stumbled slowly along in a westerly direction , sometimes holding onto the trunk of a birch tree . |
| 48 | Putting his hands on her shoulders , he drew them slowly down over the full curves , feeling , weighing , drawing a fingertip across the tightening nipples . |
| 49 | Bunny stood at the window and stared wearily down into the lamp-lit street . |
| 50 | The bedroom was insufferably dark , though if he insisted that the drapes be further drawn they would open only on to a dour and leaden sky . |
| 51 | I should also say that these are already selling like the proverbial hot cakes , so maybe I should move swiftly on to the ME-10 … |
| 52 | She handed over a neatly wrapped ‘ mixed bunch ’ to one customer , with a chatty , ‘ Here you are , love , ’ and moved swiftly on to the next . |
| 53 | To pick them up , moisten the paint-brush slightly , draw out the bristles to make a fine point , and pick up a larva with the tip of the brush and put it gently on to the new plant . |
| 54 | We want to turn state companies into shareholding companies by moving perhaps on to an Italian model of state participation in industry , so we can create a situation where companies would be owned by a combination of the state , private shareholders and foreign investors . |
| 55 | Despite the striving for the autonomy or consumption activities , resulting in an exaggerated separation from business interests , in some respects Bourdieu 's major source of analogy tends to fall back , not on to an economic , but perhaps on to an economistic model . |
| 56 | However , as soon as it begins to accelerate smoothly , that movement is no longer necessary , and the control should be moved to get the glider balanced nicely on to the main wheel . |
| 57 | She was packed off to bed by midnight but Mrs Burrows often worked patiently on till the early hours of the morning . |
| 58 | ‘ I do n't care ! ’ she told him rebelliously , scowling unhappily down at the small amount of red wine still in her glass . |
| 59 | Paralysed with terror , Evelyn gaped at the thundering carriage moving inexorably down towards the tiny girl like a horror in a nightmare . |
| 60 | Only in about the last quarter of the century did colour printing , in the form of chromolithographs , become at all usual ; and for expensive books , hand-colouring remained the norm well into the twentieth century . |