Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Before the accident I was right up with the leaders , ’ he said . |
| 2 | I really regret it now , but at the time everything was right up to there , you know . |
| 3 | I mean it was right up to the wall , and the we 'd have bothered . |
| 4 | It was right up to his mouth when Lamarr Dean nudged him , reaching out and pushing him a little , and the mescal spilled over the Apache 's chin and down the front of his vest . |
| 5 | The wa the water was right up to there . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | He was right up to it so I said well I do n't know whether you 're going round to view the house cos that 's on the market are n't they ? |
| 8 | Yeah , and it was right up to his windscreen |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | Tug lay very still and concentrated on breathing and the voice went on , so softly that it was only just possible to hear it , even though Doyle 's face was right up against his ear . |
| 11 | Other times it was dinner ; twice he took her dancing , the smoochy old-fashioned sort of dancing , not a disco , the sort where she was right up against him and his hands held her in a strong , commanding kind of way . |
| 12 | Until you came along , Century House was right out on a limb . |
| 13 | What you just did was right out of order . |
| 14 | Now she was right out of her depth , not even sure she could swim , and both afraid and exhilarated . |
| 15 | Even Roddy Collins , their bustling Dublin striker , was right out of touch and was replaced late on by Glenn Hunter who did n't really have time to get into his stride properly . |
| 16 | He was right out in the open and the wind was blowing towards us . |
| 17 | There was skid marks all over and the traffic was right back down the A seventeen , when I got there it |
| 18 | Their relationship was right back on course . |
| 19 | For a moment I was right back in my bedroom that first time . |
| 20 | Mr Davies said : ‘ Mrs Morgan was right back against the fence but was struck as this juggernaut continued on its way . ’ |
| 21 | The baby was wholly out by the time she got back with Sister , though in a caul , as if giftwrapped in Clingfilm . |
| 22 | The season was effectively over for Glentoran ; they had won nothing , had no chance of qualifying for Europe and had succumbed to Carrick Rangers in the County Antrim Shield final . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Something was badly out of alignment which only became apparent at speed . |
| 25 | Paul admitted modestly that he played the pianoforte a little , although he was badly out of practice . |
| 26 | As such it was badly out of touch with the recessionary mood of the Nineties . |
| 27 | It sounded as if it was somewhere up in the farm buildings . |
| 28 | The Royal Palace was somewhere over towards Gloucester Green but that area will have included the jail and castle . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The tree was arguably out of place in any equation involving human beings , however disparate , because it lacks their moral personality' . |