Example sentences of "[noun] right up [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scribbling changes in the margin of his text right up to the last minute , Mr Clinton insisted the burden of his new taxes were spread fairly across American society . |
| 2 | It also meant constant fighting right up to the last day , and for Bomber Command no let-up in the night by night sorties into enemy skies . |
| 3 | Do you know she said she was n't coming to our wedding right up to the last moment , and when she did consent to come she behaved as if all the guests on my side were mud beneath her feet , though our family 's always been very well thought of around here , as I 'm sure you know , and my father could have bought her up a hundred times and not noticed the difference , and what was her father in New Zealand I wonder , some sheep dipper or other I would n't mind betting — you know the type that went to the colonies then — or perhaps he was a convict ! ’ |
| 4 | Even in the European North many peasants used old flintlocks right up to the first decades of the twentieth century , and in Siberia the use of bows and spears by Russians was not unknown at least as late as the 1830s . |
| 5 | At school , to start off you integrate with everybody , it does n't matter about colour right up to the third year [ when aged about 13 or 15 ] . |
| 6 | Work is still going on in fitting out a new store right up to the last minute . |
| 7 | Although piped water was connected to the village in 1906 , it proved unreliable and the well was still in use right up to the second world war . |
| 8 | Both sides fought intensive and costly campaigns and most opinion polls showed the FSLN well ahead of the UNO right up to the last minute . |
| 9 | Within the local community it had survived during the Middle Ages and even to a certain extent right up to the nineteenth century , in spite of a foreign overlay of feudal institutions coming from western and southern Europe . |