Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also the Hopgrove roundabout itself is being resurfaced right through the day which again is adding to the usual delays for this time of a Tuesday . |
| 2 | I used to look in there and there was the Christmas tree and the Christmas decorations and they 're always up right through the year they never took them down ! |
| 3 | Er and then you 'd er say , right now you 're on your own now , er and , and if you 'd got the baby sleeping right through the night it was so much easier for her . |
| 4 | Importantly for the point I am making about the study of television genre , Todorov closes his summary of propositions thus : |
| 5 | Fenella 's complaints continued to be mostly about the way he treated her on stage . |
| 6 | Letting the woman have responsibility to decide what to do with herself should be allowed because she is the person who knows most about the situation she is in — many of the Catholic Church 's leaders are male and have not experienced the disturbing and difficult situations many women face . |
| 7 | The working-class wives of early eighteenth-century London earned from charring , laundry , nursing , making and mending clothes , hawking , silk-winding and in the catering and victualling services : The great majority of women were unable to work in male trades and , since nearly three quarters of women wanted to or had to work for a living , they necessarily competed intensely for the work which was left , much of it of a casual nature and none of it organised by gilds and livery companies . |
| 8 | Then suddenly he seemed to sag back into his seat , his hand reaching slowly for the pen I was still holding out to him . |
| 9 | You will be at an advantage if you know a little about the person who will interview you before you arrive . |
| 10 | I located a couple of book reviews I had done on matters to do with the period , one about writers of the thirties , the other about the Mass Observation project , added a letter in which I wrote a little about the book I was writing and sent them off . |
| 11 | I mean if they were known widely through the island they might have bids going further but it might just be your own district . |
| 12 | He was at least right about that — and right about the Government who are making such promises . |
| 13 | I think it 's quite hard to say , ‘ I feel all right about the way I look . ’ |
| 14 | Benny did n't really believe Eve about Sean having ambitions to marry into the shop , but there was something deeply unsettled all right about the way he looked at her . |
| 15 | There 's something not right about the way he goes on with her . |
| 16 | There was much sympathy for the aims of the action , but little for the way it was pursued . |
| 17 | Had hir survival expertise been destroyed somewhere during the treatment SHe 'd had ? |
| 18 | Therefore , the businessmen on our list have been chosen not merely for their money-making skills , but rather for the influence they can bring to bear . |
| 19 | Reflecting that the librarian 's opinion of academics was about as low as hers of journalists , Loretta asked politely for the current Who 's Who . |
| 20 | Perhaps the most obvious example is Jaggers almost compulsive washing of hands which hints towards him feeling guilty perhaps about the way he runs his business and treats his clients . |
| 21 | In any case , if the food and conditions in the staff restaurant are n't good enough for you , why should they be good enough for the person who cleans your office ? |
| 22 | ‘ I can never thank Terry enough for the way he treated me . |
| 23 | HALEMA STAYED FOR three days , just long enough for her round figure bobbing up and down the beach to become familiar , long enough for the affection she exuded to be returned tenfold . |
| 24 | The overtime and opportunities for easing which court duty affords is often not compensation enough for the stress it involves . |
| 25 | But she was n't quick enough for the woman who was to be Artemis 's new mother . |
| 26 | It is difficult to find words strong enough for the sensation which came over me ; Milton 's ‘ enormous bliss ’ of Eden ( giving the full , ancient meaning to ‘ enormous ’ ) comes somewhere near it . |
| 27 | True , Emily 's mother was his own mother 's sister , but his sole contact with her was a book token every Christmas ; a token never quite generous enough for the book he wanted . |
| 28 | It does so through the authority it exercises over government officials , and because the population at large is willing to see morality enforced , even in matters in which they are not subject to the authority of the government . |
| 29 | Because the novel is invincibly domestic , it can tell us much about the space we live in ; equally , designs for houses and their furnishings can reveal hidden aspects of the novelist 's art . |
| 30 | When we worry too much about the way we are playing it inhibits us from listening to all the elements of the music . |