Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | behind the antique shop , and we went along and had a look and at ten o'clock it had dropped right down to the second step from the bottom roughly |
| 2 | They expect you to know exactly how many there are , even the exact number of barn owls in the British Isles , right down to the last check . |
| 3 | Caroline discovered that Nicolo had not bought too much food , because they finished it all , right down to the last bit of crusty , delicious bread . |
| 4 | A tie break situation was forced when with each team having won one leg , they both recorded exactly the same weight , right down to the last gramme , in the third and final match . |
| 5 | If you were designing the ultimate holiday resort for Club 18–30 , you would copy San Antonio right down to the last bar and grain of sand . |
| 6 | The restoration of this historic fighter has been completed right down to the last detail , it carries a complete set of camera ports , although the cameras have not been fitted . |
| 7 | In fact most of the story is written , the action scenes carefully planned … right down to the last detail |
| 8 | Went no , no , it 's not , it 's not peach melba , right down to the last detail |
| 9 | Right down from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the 1960s one can indeed construct a counter-grandadology to Pearson 's ‘ history of respectable fears ’ . |
| 10 | If this happens , it is usually better to leave things for that year , and to take them right down after the next flowering . |
| 11 | Their total estimate is for 220,000 dwellings annually until 1991 ( and rather less in the last decade of the century ) . |
| 12 | Morse looked at her now — perhaps properly for the first time . |
| 13 | Inaccurate or biased research deserves our criticism , but it is just as important to ask the prior questions of why researchers have chosen to study sex differences so intensively in the first place ( why does no-one study ‘ sex similarity ’ ? |
| 14 | It is perhaps easier to work with the Germans , whom Britain fought so bitterly in the first half of this century , than with the French or the Italians , whose active roles in the Second World War were prematurely curtailed . |
| 15 | It is tinged sometimes with a blinkered nostalgia , a belief that there really was a Golden Age in the countryside when humans and nature were in harmony ; at others with an ugly neo-colonialism , a conviction that wilderness are all right for the Third World , but not for us civilised folk . |
| 16 | Ken and Codron had got together professionally in the first place because of what he called their ‘ Grill and Cheese relationship ’ . |
| 17 | Move down on to the second page then . |
| 18 | The move to Apollo Place brought Minton to an area long associated with artists ; through a circular window half-way up the stairs he looked down on to the next door studio which had once belonged to Turner . |
| 19 | Undoubtedly , the two interrelated movements — the democratic movement and the labour movement which developed so vigorously in the nineteenth century continue to have a major influence in politics , but the relation between them has changed during the present century , in a way which is also relevant to the character of more recent movements . |
| 20 | Perhaps only in the next life . |
| 21 | That trend matches the trend in television projections of party unity , which were more favourable to Labour at the start and end of the campaign , but more favourable to the Conservatives in the middle , especially so in the third week . |
| 22 | It has always been a busy committee but especially so in the last year or two , not least because it has taken on more responsibility . |
| 23 | Only in about the last quarter of the century did colour printing , in the form of chromolithographs , become at all usual ; and for expensive books , hand-colouring remained the norm well into the twentieth century . |
| 24 | " Dogs first " — that would take an immoderate time — perhaps long enough for a third drink . |
| 25 | The horses always go much better on the second day , which makes the long journey seem worthwhile . |
| 26 | So just at the last moment as the ladder began to sweep that way I just pushed as er hard as I could in the air , and the wardrobe flew up into the air in that direction , the ladder flew off in that direction , I flew off in this direction |
| 27 | WALTER SISULU will have cause in the coming days to reflect , perhaps not for the first time , that stone walls do not a prison make . |
| 28 | The round-faced , round-skulled head tops a body on which the skirt is almost a cylinder ; and the cylindrical skirt reappears even more emphatically in a magnificent over life-size marble , now headless , dedicated a little later , perhaps already in the second quarter of the century , by one Cheramyes to Hera on Samos ( fig. 28 ) . |
| 29 | So a sudden death play-off was required to settle the matter and it was almost all over at the 19th hole . |
| 30 | Even with more time lost , it was all over before the last hour . |