Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
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 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 .
4 Fertility increases in Britain occurred in a modest way in the later 1930s and much more strikingly between the mid-1950s and 1960s .
5 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 . ’
6 ( 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 . )
7 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 .
8 She 's given him on right between the legs !
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 Much to Dudley Moore 's surprise , I pull out a small shiny silver pistol and blast him right between the eyes .
11 " Monsieur Devraux 's went through her left ear , but she had another one — yours — right between the eyes ! "
12 Holding my tie as if for balance , he let me have his actor 's stare , right between the eyes .
13 I must admit the ‘ truth ’ did not smack me right between the eyes or make me leap like Archimedes from his bath .
14 The bullet took him right between the eyes , blowing his brains out through the back of his head .
15 The valleys will have nobody working at all , there 'll be no one paying insurances , no income tax , so where is the money going to come for future pensions for people right through the country .
16 On leaving the gallery , turn right through the passage and on to the Powder Bridge from where there is a wonderful view of the 15C fortifications built by the architect Benedikt Ried of Piesting and of the towering cathedral .
17 He went right through the passage to the street and entered the shop like a customer .
18 It was right through the window , the second pane up on the left hand side .
19 That 's it now put your foot right through the window .
20 Right through the decision letters , you get two elements .
21 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 .
22 ‘ Did the blade pass right through the person ? ’ he asked .
23 Health and Safety : ‘ It 's the major success we can claim as a central initiative which was taken on board and went right through the company .
24 There were tables of ten arranged right through the gallery .
25 ‘ Did you notice how his eyes were on me almost right through the performance ?
26 ILLUSION runs right through the text and texture of The Mahabharata ( C4 ) .
27 For dynamic recognition , processing may proceed from left to right through the text with subject codes of new words being compared to a ’ running profile ’ of subject codes taken from previous words .
28 Bannen tried to take his son 's hand , but his fingers passed right through the simularity field .
29 It ran right through the grapevine before the record company let on , and even before the first ads for the gig appeared in the Irish papers ( with MacGowan 's familiar mug still in the publicity shot ) , there was major consternation .
30 If Stirling had not been captured when he was , he would hardly have survived his planned raid on Sousse , having to approach his target right through the middle of the remnants of the Axis armies who were caught in an ever-diminishing pocket .
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