Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] right [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wondering whether to take up my life or walk right out of it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | If there was one thing that got right up a nome 's nose , it was someone saying , ‘ Here is a really sensible idea . |
| 4 | Its colour void led to clean , efficient lines which had an appeal that passed right down to the high street . |
| 5 | Sometimes she dreamed fretfully of trees that came right up close , like gnarled old men walking , but they did not belong to any patch she recognized . |
| 6 | Looking like huge , animated pine-cones , these unusual animals are covered in large , overlapping scales that extend right down to the tip of the long , prehensile tail . |
| 7 | And he 's asking viewers to write in with things that get right up their noses . |
| 8 | Philip , crouched behind one of the big beeches that grew right down close to the pool , watched the boy for his reaction . |
| 9 | As the psalmist says , dear Nicholas , ’ and Ellen 's smile became even sweeter , ‘ you can blow that dream right up your ass . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The maps may be of surrounding areas and zoomed right up to detailed floor-plan scale . |
| 13 | It looked dismal enough when I saw it , as if given right over to darkness . |
| 14 | We had to be washed , dressed , have our hair immaculate ( which was difficult because I had to plait mine ) , strip all the bedclothes off our beds ( which seemed totally a pointless exercise and got right up my nose the entire time I was at Styal ) , and fold them to a complicated and immaculate design — sheet , blanket , sheet all wrapped round with the counterpane and put at the end of your bed . |
| 15 | And pave right over to the gate there so you , so that you can get either car out one one car and bring up to the back of here and the other two across there . |
| 16 | It is a harder look that denies unemployment , actual or probable ; it refuses the fact of recession and industrial decrepitude ; it stares the social lie of mid-eighties Britain right in the eye and lies right back . |
| 17 | The man stretched his head forward , teeth wide now , as if impelled to fasten those upon the Sergeant 's gauntlet and pierce right through to bite ; but he desisted . |
| 18 | The shintiyan were ordinary trousers , not undergarments , and came right down to the ankle . |
| 19 | In the C2 10km race the Trains were drawn in lane 1 and paddled right up the centre of the course towards the first turn , avoiding the jostling in the middle , reminiscent of Stephen 's lone paddle at Poznan . |
| 20 | She did not fire when I asked her to go with the winner and faded right out in the last furlong , ’ said disappointed rider Frankie Dettori . |
| 21 | ‘ Here we are , ’ announced the Brigadier , emerging suddenly from his world of private woes and turning right on to a grassy track running between two olive groves . |
| 22 | ‘ Starting with Jefferson Airplane and The MC5 and going right up to Sonic Youth and Hüsker Dü , it 's never worked . |
| 23 | at this point here and going right down to the final A of ANNA and the way you can , you can , cos you 're gon na step in mid way now and you assume that the appropriate sociability has set the rapport has been built and you start the role play by saying thanks very much for that , I now wan na talk about whatever your product is , yeah , and then step into role play that way ? |
| 24 | We then left the tramway ( grid reference SH 822 113 ) , though I mean to explore it more fully on a future occasion , and turned right up a forest track past some quarry buildings . |
| 25 | Of course , unless the pilot is aware that the glider is stalled , he is bound to respond instinctively at first , applying full aileron and rudder to try to stop the rapid wing-drop and pulling right back to try to stop the nose dropping . |
| 26 | Keeping the rudder still and pulling right back on the stick sharply as the stall occurs , should make the wing drop . |
| 27 | Oh he and coming up that passage , run and jump right up on me by getting up my shirt . |
| 28 | Unless low income-earners can achieve , at a stroke , a very large rise in earnings and jump right out of the trap , it is virtually impossible for them significantly to improve their situation . |
| 29 | The edging sander will smooth out uneven areas , and get right up to the skirting board |
| 30 | Maura wished that she could meet a nice bloke and get right out of it . |