Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Paula 's job to show samples , parading slowly up and down in front of the clients as they sat on the elegant spindle-leg chairs taking in every detail of the garments with a critical and practised eye . |
| 2 | The crops were stacked right up to the roof ridge , or close to it , so using almost all the roof space . |
| 3 | Lesley turned smartly left as the lights changed , and wound her way by back-streets to the parking-ground on the edge of the shopping centre , a multi-storey monstrosity of raw concrete , at which she gazed with resigned distaste as she crept slowly up to the barrier and drove in to the second tier . |
| 4 | Bitterness , frustration and jealousy crept slowly in and only proud bar room nostalgia ( ‘ I remember one night when me and Pete Shelley got pissed and spent the night in Piccadilly Gardens … ’ ) remained . |
| 5 | The two men were no longer at the bottom of the stairs , and , envisaging all sorts of dramas , including murder , she crept slowly down . |
| 6 | This waistcoat had flap-pockets and reached down almost to the knees : it was fastened right up to the neck with horse-shoe buttons , leaving just enough space for the red-spotted muffler or wrapper to be seen underneath . |
| 7 | One day they might slow right down and start to fall back again — like a stone thrown into the air — it slows down , pauses for a moment , and then falls back again . |
| 8 | The dinghy had floated right down to him and he had used his last reserves of energy to clamber into it . |
| 9 | Over 4500km of roads , four towns , an airport , railway , a port , schools and hospitals were built , the pulp mill came from Japan and was floated thence up the Amazon . |
| 10 | When the little animal is disturbed it burrows furiously down into the ground until it has completely disappeared except for its horny rump . |
| 11 | The scar goes right up to his elbow and he got it in a fight just like the scar he 's going to have round his throat . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm not sure No I 'm not sure I agree with that because I mean area goes right up to Birmingham from the south and it be made multi-regional , multi-locational accounts within Southern England and London which are big accounts |
| 13 | Yeah , but he looks really scared they go , the whole back goes right up and he looks . |
| 14 | and that goes right up to the window yeah , and the time that , we had seven firms |
| 15 | and the sole goes right up over there so you 're not |
| 16 | The hole goes right through to the inner mechanism and was therefore the source of the oil leak , 19 this hole necessary for the diaphragm to work independent of the crankcase pressure fluctuations or is there some kind of seal missing or broken ? |
| 17 | From when anybody started , the training goes right through up till the last bit of training they 've done . |
| 18 | The quiet period starts on the eighteenth of May and it goes right through until the twenty first of June . |
| 19 | It goes right through to the bathroom does n't it ? |
| 20 | If , however , top-selling weekly music papers are more your cup of tea , then this well-worn proverb goes right out of the window . |
| 21 | This Aladdin goes right back to the 1,001 Nights , showing us Scheherezade ( Eartha Kitt ) being turned into the Genie of the Ring and the Caliph of Baghdad ( Sylvester McCoy ) into the Slave of the Lamp by the Grand Vizier Abanazer ( Peter Blake as a deliciously over-the-top wicked uncle ) . |
| 22 | ‘ It had to be Windsor , too — not Balmoral or Sandringham but the castle that goes right back to the Normans — and the Queen 's favourite chapel , stripped to a skeleton of its former self . |
| 23 | You have probably tried a variety of methods of losing weight with temporary success , only to find that the weight goes right back on again as soon as you return to your normal diet . |
| 24 | but the back of the settee goes right back I know it looks nice , that 's about all I 'll say for it . |
| 25 | Sam said , frowning , ‘ You ca n't have dived out under the curtain , it goes right down to the river bed . ’ |
| 26 | It believes that unless the final COSE specification is very tight , and goes right down to things like icons and bars , then there is certain to be a wide variety of very different COSE interfaces on the market . |
| 27 | It believes that unless the final COSE specification is very tight , and goes right down to things such as icons and bars , then there is certain to be a wide variety of very different COSE interfaces on the market . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've sent for a breakdown lorry-from a garage , so we may be able to salvage the car before it goes right under . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Your penis would have broken right off inside her and I mean that quite literally . |
| 30 | I can remember waiting some minutes before walking through the house , knowing that there must be proof of burglary at the back door , and when I got there in an uncomprehending state , lo and behold the kitchen door was broken right down ! |