Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crops were stacked right up to the roof ridge , or close to it , so using almost all the roof space . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As they crept slowly forward over the plain his eyes searched for those tiny villages made of mud with their bamboo groves and their ponds ; and though the plain was perfectly flat the villages were somehow hidden in its folds , blending with it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Again and again he swiped at Chloe , but she remained convinced that this was a game and every time her friend approached she darted away and went to sit somewhere else in the clearing , her tail brushing the ground frantically . |
| 6 | When the little animal is disturbed it burrows furiously down into the ground until it has completely disappeared except for its horny rump . |
| 7 | and that goes right up to the window yeah , and the time that , we had seven firms |
| 8 | It goes right through to the bathroom does n't it ? |
| 9 | If , however , top-selling weekly music papers are more your cup of tea , then this well-worn proverb goes right out of the window . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | Sam said , frowning , ‘ You ca n't have dived out under the curtain , it goes right down to the river bed . ’ |
| 12 | The legislation was resented bitterly enough by the Netherlands to lead to a war in which the English Republic was able to assert itself against the Dutch Republic . |
| 13 | However , at the end of the film , the car driven by Mark ( Sean Connery ) drives right down to the end of the road , and instead of falling into the ( non-existent ) harbour , turns right into a previously unsuspected street or quay along its edge and disappears from view . |
| 14 | The Warlords had already marched right out of the arena . |
| 15 | He liked what he saw of the school and got on well with the Chairman of the Governors , a fellow classicist . |
| 16 | I got on well with the teachers there before I went to Bridge Road . |
| 17 | Ex-US Army paramedic Matthew Brafman , 33 , had ‘ a reasonable bedside manner ’ and got on well with the patients at the geriatric hospital where he worked . |
| 18 | Both Rachel and Nina got on well with the men , who in turn liked and respected the nursing team , and usually there was an easy-going air of camaraderie in the centre . |
| 19 | And I enjoyed it , it was quite good , I got on well with the staff . |
| 20 | We got on well from the moment we met and we still see each other from time to time , and talk for hours about the good old days . |
| 21 | It arose most acutely in the United States which welcomed immigrants but also put pressure on them to turn themselves into English-speaking American citizens as soon as possible , since any rational citizen would wish to be an American . |
| 22 | Rates have fallen most sharply in the South East , where the going rate now averages £3.80 a week , £1.40 less than last year . |
| 23 | Signed to a major label , The Wedding Present sit rather awkwardly on the edge of acceptance into mainstream pop . |
| 24 | Lucker is having none of my gung-ho enthusiasm and drives on regardless to the end of the peninsula . |
| 25 | As Athelstan and Benedicta rode slowly back across the dark , choppy waters of the Thames , Adam Horne left the Crutched Friars monastery near Mark Lane just north of the Tower . |
| 26 | Something else I 've left hanging rather dangerously in the air is another and rather different hint , and because of the close correspondence of their careers , the milestones along their way , Stephen Daedalus is merely another name for James Joyce , so that the portrait itself would be a blow by blow account of its author 's story so far , with the relevant identities politely concealed under pseudonyms . |
| 27 | She left the Tyne yesterday for six days of sea trials and ‘ our worry is that it will not come back to the river but will be completed somewhere else in the UK ’ , he said . |
| 28 | Many thatched cottages were built on the brow of a hill overlooking the sea ; and a large potato-field , divided into elongated sections , gave ample scope for many Lewis families to prove that union is strength , for they were busily engaged lifting the crop : each family group was complete in itself ; those who had the most children got most quickly over the ground : many hands make light work , and young backs bend easily . |
| 29 | The easiest way to turn the car was to drive on up to the hardstand by the church , and as he swung about he realised it was in fact the old foundations of small cottages , completely gone with The Bomber . |
| 30 | The broad gauge lived on only in the Paddington to Penzance expresses , corresponding goods trains and services on feeder lines . |