Example sentences of "[vb past] right [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bannen tried to take his son 's hand , but his fingers passed right through the simularity field . |
| 2 | The roughly cut lawn led right to the stone doorstep and was bordered by a flower garden at one side and a summer house at the other , beyond which was a yard showing some outhouses . |
| 3 | They checked right at the start of the inquiry . |
| 4 | ‘ They hit the bar and we were a bit lucky there but we deserved a break because we fought right to the death on a very heavy pitch . ’ |
| 5 | Malcolm got right on the phone with him and sorted it out . |
| 6 | Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her . |
| 7 | At Collioure there was a great castle built right on the sea , and little boats , and placid fat women in black stockings . |
| 8 | The crypt is very simple , built right into the hillside . |
| 9 | At the fourteenth siege of Tor Alessi he charged right into the heart of the Dwarf infantry and was cut down by King Gotrek who snatched the Phoenix crown from his corpse and took it in payment for the Elves ' insolence . |
| 10 | As he went to play his shot , the wind howled in again and the ball moved right in the middle of his backswing . |
| 11 | And then it rolled away down the hill and then it went over the road and then it stopped right on the railway and then … and then … ’ |
| 12 | So he says , he stopped right at the side of it right , yes . |
| 13 | But then the stupid bastard stopped right in the middle of the bridge . |
| 14 | The worst part about it was that it stopped right in the line of flight of some bees who were working the field of clover . |
| 15 | There is also a continuing technological backwardness I think I , I probably mentioned right at the outset that in nineteen fifty India had six times as many tractors per acre in cultivation as China did . |
| 16 | I parked right on the end of the erm the lane , just |
| 17 | But he 's making a bit of a habit is n't he , Notts County I think it was , very much the same situation ; three two then for a three all draw , he scored right at the end then . |
| 18 | And then there 's the way that Steve played right on the on-beat , in contrast to the rhythm section , which always fell way back behind the beat — that 's part of the reason it all worked so well . ’ |
| 19 | " We played right through the season . " |
| 20 | A batsman in the distant adult match clouted a ball that sailed right into the middle of the school pitch . |
| 21 | ‘ We were fooling around … then we drove right around the corner to my hotel room . |
| 22 | And I came right off the wave . ’ |
| 23 | It came right off the middle and sailed over the fence , but it landed short of the window , hit a railing and bounced away . |
| 24 | He came right through the gate . |
| 25 | Saint Cloud , situated on a hill dominating Paris , to which it was linked by a railway branch line which came right to the park of the palace , was certainly the — most delightful of all the Imperial properties . |
| 26 | ‘ He came right into the carriage from the corridor and said , ‘ I expect you need a hand , sir , ’ ’ Jonathon explained . |
| 27 | ‘ I was casing Barbs 's place and she came right into the garden . |
| 28 | The thing came right from the top of the company . |
| 29 | Kragan turned right outside the hotel entrance and walked towards the Rue de Rivoli . |
| 30 | He turned right at the foot of Hawthornden Road instead of left . |