Example sentences of "[noun sg] [det] [art] [noun sg] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I even managed to drive my mother 's car all the way out here by myself this evening ! ’
2 With a sickening reverberation the words stayed in her mind all the way back to her room .
3 In Botha , they have a prolific goal-kicker , drop-goal expert and an elusive wisp of a fly-half who manages to steer clear of hunting flankers and can drill the opposition all the way back to their own 22 with one flashing kick .
4 She dragged the zip all the way down and eased the top over his shoulders , leaving his arms trapped behind him while she ran her hands lovingly over his chest .
5 It 's a short , sharp , you can see it there , you get to the top of it , get up to your roundabout , we hang a right , and the next , it 's a bit of a drag all the way up , you save coming , coming the other way it 's down hill , from just past The Bull , until you get to the , almost to that junction you turn off the top and you 're going up hill , just slowly , but cor , you get up to that , our junction , she drops down , we went straight down through the High Street , and we hung a right in the one way system , turn left , did n't get , quite get to Green Lane , turn left and up we come round the Green Lane , up and in the back way .
6 Also , it is n't physically possible to sit and listen to a rap album all the way through .
7 I crawled in a fruitless search all the way back to the tree and then turned and crawled away again on a slightly different line , looking , looking , hope draining away yard by yard in progressive debility , resolution ebbing with failure .
8 What makes it look all the more daft is that they will often have to wear the same number tabard all the way through , which over top hat and tails makes them look like someone wearing his vest over his dinner jacket .
9 And they would n't actually cause so much damage to the paint work all the way round did n't we ?
10 You know if er you know if federal government says well we think it 'd be a good idea to set up a erm you know a national space agency er NASA and all these other wonderful things , you know , and all the people in congress say great idea , great idea er we 'll have to have a launching site , we 'll have to have a launching site in Florida er cos it 'd be good to get one next to the water otherwise the rockets might come down and hit people and that would be unfortunate so we 'll agree there has to be a seaboard state but Flo well we 'll choose Florida cos the weather 's nice and you can play tennis all the year round so it 's a good idea and then we have to have mission control , right ?
11 It is a harsh punishment to have to walk the glider all the way back , particularly after a cable break where the glider lands in the middle of the airfield .
12 His previous attempt on the world record was abandoned last year in Glasgow after health officials questioned whether the heat source would be powerful enough to heat the curry all the way through .
13 Now bring the throttle all the way back and maintain the five per cent glide .
14 Cut out a circle , 1cm ( ½inch ) outside the line , and cut snips into the circle all the way round to a depth of 1cm ( ½inch ) .
15 ‘ We had the good fortune to have fixed ropes in place all the way down but there were gusts of 100mph which literally lifted us up off our feet and threw us back down again , ’ said Harry .
16 And with a record of ‘ at least 60 per cent repeat business all the year round , including weekends ’ , the have definitely got the hospitality formula right … with just a little help from their friends !
17 I 've known women to choose something highbrow to impress me — and sit in an agony of boredom all the way through .
18 He slid one hand to her hips , pressing her into contact with his body all the way down as he did so .
19 You hitchhiking in my rucksack all the way up here without me knowing and then doing a perfect impression of a police loud hailer . ’
20 So it 's thirty mile an hour all the way down to there now !
21 Mind you , there wo n't be too much muttering about top-roping from other Scottish climbers given that almost every ascent of Fated Path ( on the same crag ) has been top-roped prior to leading , despite that route having fixed protection all the way up !
22 The road gang had turned up unexpectedly that afternoon and had laid and rolled more than two hundred yards of hot tarmac from the main building all the way around to the other side of the restaurant block ; now the place did n't look quite so much like a building site any more , and winter opening seemed more of a possibility .
23 You have not yet read the whole novel — and you would normally read a text all the way through before you seriously get down to translating it .
24 If it 's right for the meal , I would probably serve champagne all the way through .
25 Lesley says : ‘ She used to have hair all the way down to her waist .
26 After parting from his jockey Macer Gifford at the very first fence he had continued with the rest of the field all the way round , clearing every obstacle and keeping with the herd .
27 Flat-chested and skinny too , like a stick all the way down .
28 But it 's totally no smoking all the way through .
29 I mean , I did try and and make a male and female split all the way round , on the basis that all team male and all female team done it earlier .
30 Decorate your doorstep with this terracotta-finish container and have cool milk all the year round .
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