Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well they do n't get that in here unless you 're higher up the scale like a tenter or something that 's , things like that . |
| 2 | The manager has been straight down the line since he arrived at the club . |
| 3 | The folds in the return maps prevent the relatively simple analysis of the strange attractor from remaining true , since points which are separated by the expansion in one direction can , if they are later on the opposite sides of the fold in the map , be forced back together again by the contraction in the other direction . |
| 4 | Surely no topic would seem to be less down the alley of this intellectually peripatetic social scientist . |
| 5 | If you 're the first correct entry out of the hat we 'll be straight on the phone to give you the good news and arrange the presentation . |
| 6 | Not a great big 60-odd ball that is gon na be straight on the centre of the Z. |
| 7 | She and Ethel were halfway down the next flight of stairs when they were suddenly joined by Bryce . |
| 8 | Some of his books were probably in that bonfire ; all of his Sagitta writings were later on the Nazi list of forbidden books . |
| 9 | With Sykes about to go at Christmas as well , they were really up the creek . |
| 10 | It will be a sad day for Britain if the Union Jack falls to town hall tyrants who are completely up the pole . |
| 11 | Danon does n't quite capture the swing that ties these dances to their Romanian background ( the folktunes are genuine ) — perhaps surprisingly , in view of his Yugoslav origins : it 's only down the road , after all . |
| 12 | The state of the river and a temperature barely above freezing means it is going to be hard today but I will still feed about a dozen maggots when I cast in , and them the same again when the float is halfway down the swim . |
| 13 | No doubt they see themselves as devoted middlewomen , bringing the truly important work of the time to the avid masses , but all they are really doing , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is fucking up the lives of both sets of people . |
| 14 | If all this excitement drains you and you feel the need for a caffeine boost try the marble interior of Bewley 's coffee house on Grafton St. For something more wholesome , try Colony 's just down the road , where you can find vegetarian food , which is notoriously hard to track down in Dublin . |
| 15 | So Andy Legg is still out the question remains as to whether Gary will be in the starting lineup after Tony impressive performance against Forrest . |
| 16 | Dave is further down the sixth floor corridor , it 's almost directly under this room |
| 17 | That does mean that they have already had a very difficult exercise in terms of looking at an , an efficiency effectiveness distribution of funding and how they manage the service , and that 's very much tied in with the children 's services plan , which Mike referred to earlier on , and which is later on the agenda . |
| 18 | Ah well that 's straight on the trailer , yeah . |
| 19 | So it 's straight up the back stairs . |
| 20 | Crowfield is half-way up the south-eastern edge of Wattisham 's north-easterly ‘ panhandle ’ , so I drew a small circle at the appropriate point and joined it and Gransden with a straight line . |
| 21 | It is then up the Hanging Committee to decide which works fit best into the jigsaw-puzzle of an exhibition they are trying to construct . |
| 22 | she 's never out the money i n't she ? |
| 23 | She had been continually up the spout , or over the moon , about someone or something . |
| 24 | The cat was halfway up the tree , and it took Virginia quite a long time to reach it . |
| 25 | He was halfway up the final flight when he heard the voiders ' whistle in the street outside , its piercing din unmistakable . |
| 26 | As Miranda was halfway down the dark and narrow stairwell , she realised who it was who had so disarmed Madame that she had not scolded Marie-Angèle ( for not being downstairs to hand , to run the message up to Mlle Everard ) , or waited to reproach Miranda herself for allowing visitors to call without appointments and cause all this trouble to her hostess in the Hotel Davenant . |
| 27 | All the same , by the time he was halfway down the passage , she was coming back , staggering under the weight of a large , square , glass case . |
| 28 | She was only up the town . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ But me an' yer muvver always used ter be goin' out when we were younger , even if it was only up the Kings Arms on Saturday nights . |
| 30 | It might be , all his life , his worth or lack of it , that this was always down the line . |