Example sentences of "right [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much to Dudley Moore 's surprise , I pull out a small shiny silver pistol and blast him right between the eyes . |
| 2 | ( 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 . ) |
| 3 | " Monsieur Devraux 's went through her left ear , but she had another one — yours — right between the eyes ! " |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Holding my tie as if for balance , he let me have his actor 's stare , right between the eyes . |
| 6 | I must admit the ‘ truth ’ did not smack me right between the eyes or make me leap like Archimedes from his bath . |
| 7 | The bullet took him right between the eyes , blowing his brains out through the back of his head . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Cor he is good , there 's no doubt about that , look at that , right between the two . |
| 11 | She 's given him on right between the legs ! |
| 12 | I slept right through the night ! |
| 13 | One simple injection , normally given in the autumn , can help to protect you right through the cold months when flu is most prevalent . |
| 14 | Not only will this make the water unpleasant but it may cause leakages if the corrosion goes right through the cistern . |
| 15 | The Civil War was over , but the social repercussions of external and internal war and revolution flowed on right through the 1920s . |
| 16 | And to get to its end point of Conwy Castle you travel right through the heart of Snowdonia taking a stunning high level route crossing peaks like Rhinog Fach , Rhinog Fawr , Glyder Fawr and Snowdon itself . |
| 17 | Ah , I think the Foreign Office was trying to pursue the only sensible policy as it perceived it at the time , right through the entire period , um , since 1965 . |
| 18 | He was like the bloke who you saw right through the film overseeing the whole operation , just standing there sticking little pins into a map . |
| 19 | At the far end was St. Giles Church — which meant we never had an excuse for being late anywhere as the bells tolled the hour — and the quarters — right through the night |
| 20 | This lack of interest goes right through the educational system , In Ealing for example ( an area where a high proportion of the population is Asian ) not one school had facilities for teaching Asian languages . |
| 21 | Tom Shakeshaft , who is 15 , reveals his dismay at plans to drive a dual carriageway right through the beautiful piece of countryside where he lives . |
| 22 | ILLUSION runs right through the text and texture of The Mahabharata ( C4 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Did you notice how his eyes were on me almost right through the performance ? |
| 24 | ( c ) left X-rays pierce right through the object , revealing the massive breaks . |
| 25 | She drank from a cup so transparently delicate that its contents could be seen right through the patterned china . |
| 26 | We had crowd-flow blockages , insufficient refreshment facilities , no VIP entrance , no security check until people were in the main auditorium , and no way to get backstage except by walking right through the main meeting , up the stairs onto the stage and out through the back — with everybody watching ! |
| 27 | A walk to the Hadi Gari Bar down by the harbour will take you right through the hustle and bustle of the narrow streets of the old town and can take as little as five minutes , although you 'll be hard pressed not to be distracted by the jewellery , leather and clothes offered by street vendors at every corner . |
| 28 | Upon repair , the screws were replaced by bolts passing right through the timbers , and many of the pine timbers were replaced by lengths of jarrah wood . |
| 29 | ‘ Did the blade pass right through the person ? ’ he asked . |
| 30 | I knocked on it but it was so dilapidated that I could see right through the door frame and into a large room where a man was sitting in a kitchen chair , dressed in trousers and vest . |