Example sentences of "be right [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , I mean , the next pubs are right over the side of the hospital , |
| 2 | One of the odd features when you first arrive in the area is that there is no advance warning of what 's to come — nothing visible of the Grand Canyon until you are right on the edge . |
| 3 | For example , the Eskimos , who as hunters and fishermen are right at the bottom of Marx 's and Engels 's technological scale , have a kinship terminology which does not classify relatives any more than the English system does — a sign for Morgan of the presence of monogamy — while the Malays , who have possessed for a very long time highly advanced agricultural techniques , use a kinship terminology which Morgan and Engels associated with the earliest stages of evolution . |
| 4 | So I think I made this point before that the people who are right at the top of politics are the ones who are very good at flattery , duplicity , manipulation and so on and these , are these really the qualities we want in our government ? |
| 5 | Images of parties and party leaders are right at the margin between perceptions and attitudes . |
| 6 | You see those two are right at the end , and those I do n't know whether those ought to be together before XX . |
| 7 | And the French are right at the forefront of design again . |
| 8 | Employees are right behind the scheme … |
| 9 | Chief executive Alan Smith said : ‘ Board members are right behind the team and the people responsible for picking it . ’ |
| 10 | Having said all that , the famous Ipsos nightlife is practically on the doorstep as these apartments are right in the middle of town . |
| 11 | These two buildings , owned and managed by the Kendler family , are right in the middle of St Gilgen , and only two minutes walk from the lake and promenade . |
| 12 | The important thing about these volcanoes is that since they are right in the middle of the Pacific , they are basaltic , and their basalts are hot and very fluid . |
| 13 | ‘ We are right in the middle of watching one of our favourite programmes , ’ Mr Wormwood said . |
| 14 | It will probably start on Boxing Day when we are right in the middle of winter . |
| 15 | Can you see the sand on this path where the water 's been right over the top of it ? |
| 16 | He 'd been right about the shelter of the hedge . |
| 17 | I think we 'd have been right up the creek without the paddle ! |
| 18 | My sister-in-law answered , so quickly that she must have been right beside the telephone . |
| 19 | ‘ Never been right since the bronchitis last winter . |
| 20 | No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed . |
| 21 | I 've been right round the lot anyway so that 's jolly good . |
| 22 | I looked around for this other speaker , this eminent historian who had been right in the middle of the action , this acute analyst who assembled with such thoroughness the material I too had worked on , who had packed it into enlightening and readable volumes . |
| 23 | Oh aye because you 're right into the flesh . |
| 24 | No cos they 're right at the bottom now . |
| 25 | So you 're right at the head of the pecking order ? |
| 26 | You 're right at the head of the pecking order , when the cash generation starts you 'll be first in line ? |
| 27 | and three on the bottom and they 're right at the top . |
| 28 | See what happens is they always backwards even if they 're right at the back of the field so you find someone you do n't like and you go behind them trip them over |
| 29 | You 're right up the top of the hill . |
| 30 | Oh , you 're right down the road from Margaret ! |