Example sentences of "[vb past] right [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bannen tried to take his son 's hand , but his fingers passed right through the simularity field . |
| 2 | The gates led right onto a busy road , there were some derelict public loos next door and a boating lake opposite . |
| 3 | The roughly cut lawn led right to the stone doorstep and was bordered by a flower garden at one side and a summer house at the other , beyond which was a yard showing some outhouses . |
| 4 | We signed another form , paid another , smaller deposit , and checked right into a motel in Santa Barbara for a long rest . |
| 5 | They checked right at the start of the inquiry . |
| 6 | ‘ They hit the bar and we were a bit lucky there but we deserved a break because we fought right to the death on a very heavy pitch . ’ |
| 7 | Malcolm got right on the phone with him and sorted it out . |
| 8 | Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her . |
| 9 | He lived right on the main road he was very vulnerable ! |
| 10 | The small twelfth-century edifice , built right above the steep cliffs that dominate the northern beaches of France , and the cemetery with its hundred tombs and crosses are in harmony with Braque 's colors . |
| 11 | At Collioure there was a great castle built right on the sea , and little boats , and placid fat women in black stockings . |
| 12 | The crypt is very simple , built right into the hillside . |
| 13 | At the fourteenth siege of Tor Alessi he charged right into the heart of the Dwarf infantry and was cut down by King Gotrek who snatched the Phoenix crown from his corpse and took it in payment for the Elves ' insolence . |
| 14 | As he went to play his shot , the wind howled in again and the ball moved right in the middle of his backswing . |
| 15 | And then it rolled away down the hill and then it went over the road and then it stopped right on the railway and then … and then … ’ |
| 16 | So he says , he stopped right at the side of it right , yes . |
| 17 | The worst part about it was that it stopped right in the line of flight of some bees who were working the field of clover . |
| 18 | But then the stupid bastard stopped right in the middle of the bridge . |
| 19 | Someone saw him and called the police When they arrived he shimmied right to the very top of one of the chimneys . |
| 20 | ‘ Jimi was playing in the rain and I stood right at the front of the stage and water dripped right off the tips of his boots onto my head . |
| 21 | Sir Henry de Bohun levelled his lance and charged at the unarmoured king ; but Bruce rose in his stirrups , and with his battleaxe cleft right through the English knight 's helmet and skull . |
| 22 | There is also a continuing technological backwardness I think I , I probably mentioned right at the outset that in nineteen fifty India had six times as many tractors per acre in cultivation as China did . |
| 23 | I parked right on the end of the erm the lane , just |
| 24 | But he 's making a bit of a habit is n't he , Notts County I think it was , very much the same situation ; three two then for a three all draw , he scored right at the end then . |
| 25 | And then there 's the way that Steve played right on the on-beat , in contrast to the rhythm section , which always fell way back behind the beat — that 's part of the reason it all worked so well . ’ |
| 26 | " We played right through the season . " |
| 27 | A batsman in the distant adult match clouted a ball that sailed right into the middle of the school pitch . |
| 28 | ‘ We were fooling around … then we drove right around the corner to my hotel room . |
| 29 | And I came right off the wave . ’ |
| 30 | It came right off the middle and sailed over the fence , but it landed short of the window , hit a railing and bounced away . |