Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its final moments a sophisticated urbane man in a nightclub is led discreetly through a back door into a room which is a mortuary run by nuns , one of whom shows him a dead body drawn out of a wall on a slab . |
| 2 | I settled back in my seat , picked some dirt from my fingernails with a spare scythe blade , and whispered discreetly through the partition . |
| 3 | And the river Nive , which is a good deal slimmer and perfectly limpid up here , near to its source in the watershed , flows discreetly through the middle of the town , dividing it into two quite equal parts . |
| 4 | Leonora felt better once she was in the taxi , particularly since Penry not only held her hand , but kept his arm round her for the entire journey , taking her mind very successfully off the evening ahead by the sheer joy of just being with him after a week apart . |
| 5 | The groups of women artists who met and worked collaboratively during the same period are less clearly referenced in standard texts . |
| 6 | Fertility increases in Britain occurred in a modest way in the later 1930s and much more strikingly between the mid-1950s and 1960s . |
| 7 | I 'm a very private person and when you 're relating your feelings so intensely through the music , you want to spend the rest of the time with people you like to be with . ’ |
| 8 | Since in the epi-classical period the differences between legacies and trusts persisted there is no reason to suppose that the publisher of Scaevola 's works would have used the terms interchangeably as a matter of deliberate policy . |
| 9 | Much to Dudley Moore 's surprise , I pull out a small shiny silver pistol and blast him right between the eyes . |
| 10 | ( As we said above , we think that reparative measures could be particularly suitable in pursuing reintegrative shaming , for the performance of reparation shames the offender symbolically while seeking to set matters right between the offender , the victim and the community . ) |
| 11 | " Monsieur Devraux 's went through her left ear , but she had another one — yours — right between the eyes ! " |
| 12 | The best route , initially , is to cross the shallows on the left into the rack then go right over the shingle/boulder bank into the mini haystacks , thence into the pool , left at the next rack and cut back right between the rock and the boulder bank to avoid the tree roots . |
| 13 | Holding my tie as if for balance , he let me have his actor 's stare , right between the eyes . |
| 14 | I must admit the ‘ truth ’ did not smack me right between the eyes or make me leap like Archimedes from his bath . |
| 15 | The bullet took him right between the eyes , blowing his brains out through the back of his head . |
| 16 | but y I ca n't I have to say and I know right ca n't give her what she wants is somebody to sit down somebody to sit her down and talk to her and you ca n't give her the benefit of that because it 's a little battle right between the two silly little girls if you like and if that j if that happens had won right and that 's the way will feel it |
| 17 | But that we get a balance right between the amount of regulations an and the cost of it but that it is in a sense , effective and and the plea I would make to my honourable friend when he considers this P I A prospectus and what should be done and wh to what extent the government feels it should support it , is that what we actually want is not a specific requirement that says you 've got to have this much , that much capital erm and so on , but that there is a function , there is a regular audit trail , there is a a regular , annual look at the figures , the accounts of all these intermediaries , er and firms where the difficulty has been er in the past . |
| 18 | Cor he is good , there 's no doubt about that , look at that , right between the two . |
| 19 | She 's given him on right between the legs ! |
| 20 | For example , an energy flow from left to right through a flow from foreground to background should produce an upwards driving force that becomes diagonally anticlockwise . |
| 21 | The teacher stands back and observes Christopher ( 4.7 ) as he tries to cut right through a block of wood with a tenon saw only half its width . |
| 22 | Stars could not shine were it not for particles — called neutrinos — that are so insubstantial that they have no mass at all and can travel right through a solid object like the Earth as if it simply did not exist . |
| 23 | The birds went off at noisy full-throttle , right through a herd of deer which had been grazing quietly till then . |
| 24 | And indeed , watched curiously by a solitary policeman below , he passes right through a library ( ** ) by Hawksmoor , and emerges on the other side coughing slightly from the dust in the books . |
| 25 | The hands can lead you right through a painting . |
| 26 | Much more energetic particles can be produced by cosmic-rays , which themselves are so energetic that they can readily pass right through a magnetosphere . |
| 27 | One of the things that some chaps found amusing when they went to the " heads " ( the head is what the Navy calls the loo ) , you sat in a long row and a great flush of water ran right through a row of 20 or 30 . |
| 28 | When planners put forward proposals to build a road right through a beautiful stretch of country or to quarry an unspoiled area of a national park , The Ramblers ' Association puts up strong opposition . |
| 29 | how value it is , and most insurance , yeah , that 's right through a brokers . |
| 30 | The Danzig Party leapt into the political struggles of the Volkstag with renewed energy and Forster settled down with confidence to work at his leisure the rich vein of economic discontent that ran right through every strata of Free City society . |