Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to the [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then continue walking at this pace until you feel ready to go on to the 30 day walk back to fitness programme later in this chapter . |
| 2 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 3 | Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 4 | Such reasoning can be traced down to the present day , although there are variations on the theme . |
| 5 | First built at the time of Edward I , it has been occupied through to the present day . |
| 6 | The Bride 's Book will help you keep a perfect record of your relationship from the moment you met through to the big day . |
| 7 | History is the study of the past using documents and inscriptions as evidence , and historians have recorded and interpreted events from the earliest days of writing up to the present day . |
| 8 | ( It is also remarkable how commonly ideas similar to his have kept re-surfacing up to the present day , often without any apparent awareness on the part of their authors that Schleiermacher had already developed them , or that the subsequent movement of theology was to expose serious inadequacies in them . ) |
| 9 | From The Great Train Robbery ( 1903 ) onwards , the Western has been informed by a species of bitter nostalgia , looking back to the wild days of the West and questioning the value of the civilisation won by all that exciting gunplay . |
| 10 | Abruptly he came back to the present day , his wedding day . |
| 11 | It has a history that goes back to Morgan and Drake , a history of piracy and corruption that reaches down to the present day . |
| 12 | Over seven weeks leading up to the big day , Jim Nash , Lorna Powell and Agnes Ramsay had to find out about marquees , promotional material , advertising and food . |
| 13 | First the next coupon payment is added to ( 8.8 ) and then the whole sum is discounted back to the first day of the delivery month . |
| 14 | Going , going back to the early days you mentioned that erm the dividend , the divi was quite important . |
| 15 | … Trouble with going back to the old days , the [ agency ] was more or less a family concern . |
| 16 | All he would say was that the paper would be completely new , but would hark back to the great days of the Mirror . |
| 17 | No-one can deny that being pretty helps — no female on breakfast television would have a career otherwise — but I can not believe that we are turning back to the dark days when it was deemed the most important thing of all . |
| 18 | What emerges from an examination of the FFYP is that it set a pattern for the Soviet economy that persists up to the present day . |
| 19 | In recent years he has set himself up as a crusader for higher press and broadcasting standards , regularly harking back to the golden days of his journalistic apprenticeship in Yorkshire , where every fact was triple-checked and every speculation ruthlessly suppressed in the Hebden Bridge Times . |
| 20 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 21 | Tory group leader Coun John Hale said : ‘ It all stems back to the early days when people were encouraged not to pay and the momentum has built up from this . ’ |
| 22 | However , studies of children 's communicative abilities prior to the onset of spoken language have indicated that the origins of communication may be traced back to the earliest days after birth , and that full mastery of the morpho-syntactic devices for expressing complex meanings may not be fully understood until early adolescence . |
| 23 | And that goes back to the early days of silage . |
| 24 | This tradition goes back to the earliest days of the Ottoman state , to Molla Edebali ( d. 726/1326 ) , Osman 's father-in-law , and is based on statements in both the and the . |
| 25 | But Tory schools minister Michael Fallon , MP for Darlington hit back : ‘ No one wants to go back to the old days of councillors running hospitals , of Nupe deciding whether or not your operations should be carried out . ’ |
| 26 | He had informed his silent audience of the death — just ‘ death ’ — of Dr Kemp ; explained that in order to establish the , er , totality of events , it would be necessary for everyone to complete a little questionnaire ( duly distributed ) , sign and date it , and hand it in to Sergeant Lewis ; that the departure of the coach would have to be postponed until late afternoon , perhaps , with lunch by courtesy of The Randolph ; that Mr Cedric Downes had volunteered to fix something up for that morning , from about 10.45 to 12.15 ; that ( in Morse 's opinion ) activity was a splendid antidote to adversity , and that it was his hope that all the group would avail themselves of Mr Downes 's kind offer ; that if they could all think back to the previous day 's events and try to recall anything , however seemingly insignificant , that might have appeared unusual , surprising , out-of-character — well , that was often just the sort of thing that got criminal cases solved . |
| 27 | Yeah , it 's it 's it 's the build up to it as well , there 's a lot of excitement , I mean , most people it takes about six months to build up to the big day , and then finally it 's there and it all happens and , I think that makes it a lot , exciting for a lot of women . |
| 28 | Right , can we go on to the open day ? |
| 29 | If you can go back to the first day that you arrived |
| 30 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |