Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] in the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 I have I tell you I 've done that before now and then that one ends up right down in the bottom corner
3 Though I must admit , we 'll be glad when it 's all over in the Far East and they can come back safe and sound . ’
4 It seemed all over in the 63rd minute when Clough , a few yards outside the penalty area , volleyed a headed clearance instantly into the roof of the net before Hardwick could move a muscle .
5 The collapse of the Empire in 1814 and the fall of Napoleon I brought about a dispersal of the Imperial House and although the return of Napoleon from Elba in 1815 led to a restoration of the family fortunes , it was all over in the Hundred Days .
6 It was all over in the 10th .
7 If society 's resource could be used to make more output , even the poor might be better off in the long run .
8 I share her view that industry , commerce and individuals in this country are better off in the European Community than outside it .
9 As far as the urban working class was concerned they may well have been better off in the fifteenth century than they had been previously or were to be later .
10 Overall , the effect of the suspension of indexation will raise an additional £730 million in 1993/4 , although against this must be set the cost of the extension of the 20p band which will cost £370 million , leaving the Treasury £360 million better off in the coming year .
11 They will then see what the man or woman has got left in disposable income each week ; if it 's two pounds , then it 'll be ten units x two pounds , if it 's two hundred pounds , then it 'll be ten units x two hundred pounds to hit the better off in the same proportion as the people at the bottom of the income level .
12 The regime had been under strain for some time , not only up in the Syrian heartland but also in far-away Khorasan in northeastern Persia .
13 Erm some additional sidings , mills over here , some additional sidings were put in , in the early part of this century , and they came off the this track erm just this side of on the left hand side of the level crossing , erm and went er up to a dead end er just along in the right hand side , er over now towards where factory is .
14 Fording these cool inches gave momentary pleasure but they were no sooner down in the hot stagnant air of the valley bottoms than they imagined the more open hill-top ahead must bring relief .
15 The Aston Villa centre half , now settled comfortably back in the Irish fold after the controversy of his failure to appear for the game in Albania three weeks ago , is a major figure in Charlton 's plans .
16 But Collins was soon back in the thick of the action , fisting clear a McCaffrey free kick and throwing himself across his line to make a fine two handed stop from a Kavanagh volley .
17 [ Mond is said to have complained , away back in the 1880s , that his company was n't concentrating on chemistry any more but on making money , a complaint perhaps most easily made by those who have already acquired as much money as they can reasonable need . ]
18 The disk is round , diameter up to 7 mm , covered by multipointed spinelets which have a very wide crown , approximately round in the top view with many irregular points , often 10 or more .
19 Early on in the present government 's administration a representative of Fabius warned that if research was to get the money it required , other ministries would suffer .
20 Leopold realised very early on in the first visit that their money would not be made by giving public performances ,
21 The French gave support to the Scots who , from very early on in the new reign , caused trouble in the north ; while to the west , in Wales , where Owain Glyn Dŵr was to rise against English rule in 1400 , French troops landed and at one time might have been seen in the Herefordshire countryside .
22 Ken 's equally eccentric behaviour towards her became evident early on in the out-of-town try-outs in Brighton , Liverpool and Oxford .
23 If one may accept the equivalence of at least the concepts underlying the terms and on the one hand and and on the other , there is thus some solid evidence , in addition to the line of reasoning advanced above , to suggest that the concept of a division between " the interior " and " the exterior " existed at least from fairly early on in the sixteenth century ; and it is not unreasonable to suppose that the terms haric and dahil are not anachronistic in respect of the Kanunname .
24 Well apparently that was n't the end of the garden you see cos that came across like this and when you went through a gap in the hedge about another twenty yards further on in the far distance it seemed there was the hut .
25 Further on in the above entry he admits he can only be less than himself in company .
26 But we should be further on in the long march from paternalism .
27 Yellow gorse blossomed further on in the open , a cheerful show of colour .
28 The village contained little more than cottages , but the spirit of the day had been caught … and two or three of the best of them were smartened up with a white curtain and ‘ lodgings to let ’ — and further on in the little green court of an old farm house , two females in elegant white were actually to be seen with their books and camp-stools — and in turning the corner of the baker 's shop , the sound of a harp might be heard through the upper casement .
29 His face smashed a pane low down in the french window and went through , stippling Goldman 's shoes with blood .
30 So we are entitled to ask why scores are n't even lower — possibly down in the 50s .
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