Example sentences of "[verb] right [adv prt] [prep] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The dinghy had floated right down to him and he had used his last reserves of energy to clamber into it . |
| 4 | The scar goes right up to his elbow and he got it in a fight just like the scar he 's going to have round his throat . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm not sure No I 'm not sure I agree with that because I mean area goes right up to Birmingham from the south and it be made multi-regional , multi-locational accounts within Southern England and London which are big accounts |
| 6 | and that goes right up to the window yeah , and the time that , we had seven firms |
| 7 | and the sole goes right up over there so you 're not |
| 8 | The hole goes right through to the inner mechanism and was therefore the source of the oil leak , 19 this hole necessary for the diaphragm to work independent of the crankcase pressure fluctuations or is there some kind of seal missing or broken ? |
| 9 | It goes right through to the bathroom does n't it ? |
| 10 | The quiet period starts on the eighteenth of May and it goes right through until the twenty first of June . |
| 11 | If , however , top-selling weekly music papers are more your cup of tea , then this well-worn proverb goes right out of the window . |
| 12 | This Aladdin goes right back to the 1,001 Nights , showing us Scheherezade ( Eartha Kitt ) being turned into the Genie of the Ring and the Caliph of Baghdad ( Sylvester McCoy ) into the Slave of the Lamp by the Grand Vizier Abanazer ( Peter Blake as a deliciously over-the-top wicked uncle ) . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | You have probably tried a variety of methods of losing weight with temporary success , only to find that the weight goes right back on again as soon as you return to your normal diet . |
| 15 | Sam said , frowning , ‘ You ca n't have dived out under the curtain , it goes right down to the river bed . ’ |
| 16 | It believes that unless the final COSE specification is very tight , and goes right down to things like icons and bars , then there is certain to be a wide variety of very different COSE interfaces on the market . |
| 17 | It believes that unless the final COSE specification is very tight , and goes right down to things such as icons and bars , then there is certain to be a wide variety of very different COSE interfaces on the market . |
| 18 | ‘ Your penis would have broken right off inside her and I mean that quite literally . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Its colour void led to clean , efficient lines which had an appeal that passed right down to the high street . |
| 21 | By 9 January 1177 he had besieged Dax , which had been held against him by the Viscount of Dax and Bigorre , and taken it ; he had besieged Bayonne , which the Viscount of Bayonne had held against him , and taken it ; he had marched right up to " the Gate of Spain " at Cize and there he had captured and demolished the castle of St Pierre . |
| 22 | The nettles were bolder , they bravely marched right up to her very door bringing their friends the docks with them . |
| 23 | The Warlords had already marched right out of the arena . |
| 24 | But the steady drip of disclosures , which appears certain to continue right up to the general election later this year , could yet prove fatal to the Congress ( I ) Party 's chances of remaining in power . |
| 25 | If your pond is planted , now is the time to cut back dead growth : although this year it seemed a pity to butcher my waterlilies , which continued to flower right through until late September . |
| 26 | A bath safety-rail made of chromium-plated tubular steel makes getting in and out of the bath much easier and safer ; and a bath seat with a back support eliminates the need to sit right down in the bath ( see Chapter 12 ) . |
| 27 | Did he really expect her to trot right on after him — like an obedient dog or something ? |
| 28 | I 've got to go right on to the end of whatever all this is , because I ca n't go back . |
| 29 | He 's always saying ‘ What say , boy ? ’ and I have to go right up to him and shout . |
| 30 | Yeah , but there ca n't be there ca n't be enough o , enough erm te ten thousands and this has to go right up to the top . |