Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manville was dead long before the heavy iron chains fastened around his ankles dragged his body to the bottom of the Potomac River . |
| 2 | ‘ Before the accident I was right up with the leaders , ’ he said . |
| 3 | I mean it was right up to the wall , and the we 'd have bothered . |
| 4 | er , and if you , not quite as short as you did last time , you see when you combed it up last time it was right up to the top just a little bit |
| 5 | and there was this dump truck sort of about two foot out , he 'd obviously changed his mind and sort of had er stopped , had a Reliant Regal , you know a Reliant Regal it was right up to the windscreen and there was a pile of glass in , you know everywhere it was |
| 6 | ‘ It was right upstairs above the shop and all the women were nice . |
| 7 | He was right out in the open and the wind was blowing towards us . |
| 8 | Separatism was right there in the middle , influencing all women , and , despite themselves , even those who were most vociferous in their resistance to our ideas . |
| 9 | There was skid marks all over and the traffic was right back down the A seventeen , when I got there it |
| 10 | Mr Davies said : ‘ Mrs Morgan was right back against the fence but was struck as this juggernaut continued on its way . ’ |
| 11 | As a political tool naval patronage was rather less in the control of Administration than was military patronage , for although the Board of Admiralty retained all home patronage , there were many flag officers commanding squadrons in distant waters who enjoyed the right to make necessary promotions in their ships . |
| 12 | Yet another Pakistani , the former world champion Jansher Khan , was rather prematurely in the news for being rebuked by Chris Dittmar , the president of the players ' association , for allegedly being too demanding of the tournament organisers . |
| 13 | We could at that moment quite justifiably have concluded that the date of the bank was most probably in the early second century , like Verulamium , but we were saved from making this serious error by the presence in the trench of a small hearth immediately below the first load of rampart spoil . |
| 14 | The baby was wholly out by the time she got back with Sister , though in a caul , as if giftwrapped in Clingfilm . |
| 15 | The game was effectively over by the interval , with Celtic having built up a four-goal lead through Graham Nichols ( 2 ) , Kevin Messenger and Tom Shepherd . |
| 16 | Tim Smith could have blown this kick over , but it was downhill then for the rest of the first half . |
| 17 | It sounded as if it was somewhere up in the farm buildings . |
| 18 | It 's not that he did n't say it , but he was somewhere else at the time , and he just heard the bit of it , he heard the back end of it . |
| 19 | One morning the alarm calls of grey langur monkeys alerted Bill Arjan Singh that Harriet was somewhere down by the river that forms the boundary with the National Park . |
| 20 | It seems to demonstrate that secretaries instead of being secretaries expect to become executives , which was presumably not in the job terms of reference when they applied . |
| 21 | She was rarely there for the full rehearsals . |
| 22 | The site manager said : ‘ Mellor was rarely there during the week . |
| 23 | Dougal was halfway back to the car park before it occurred to him that flight was not necessarily the wisest course of action . |
| 24 | But then , at first glance , Vic was somewhat out of the ordinary . |
| 25 | The pain lies in the reminder how far , how irrevocably , hopelessly far we are from what we might once have had , from what was so nearly within the grasp . |
| 26 | That was so even before the introduction of poll tax . |
| 27 | Her heart was so strongly on the side of his that she feared she might give way . |
| 28 | If you had observed my father who arrived in this house a week after you did , you will have seen that his house knowledge is perfect and was so almost from the time he set foot in Darlington Hall . ’ |
| 29 | About a foot below the outwale there was a pretty bad hole which he 'd never felt concerned him , it was so far above the waterline . |
| 30 | In those days the prostate was so far below the standard of respectability that it could not even have been mentioned in the newspaper . |