Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 From the filament in the fog lamps right down to the washers on the wipers .
2 It may in part be a function of the teacher 's own practices , and when this is so an analysis of his or her use of time , from the broad organizational strategies right down to the minutiae of moment-to-moment interactions with the children , could help both in creating more time and in making for a more effective and efficient context for learning .
3 right down to the tips of your fingers .
4 But that aside , it 's pretty much ideal preparation for the marathon , right down to the drinks on offer .
5 Since Stevenson 's now owned Sir George right down to the buttons on his shirt , she thought that most generous .
6 They 'd put a terrible strain on the council : if they all wakened up , right down through the layers of time , there 'd be cavemen mouthing mindless questions in the barren , gameless desert of streets and traffic , and it would be the end of the world .
7 We sat right down by the ashes of a fire , and I looked at them , and I did n't wonder who could have made them .
8 We had a phone call erm a year or two ago Mrs did a lot of work on this with petition 's and so on about the costs of pensioner 's for animal treatment , because the P D S A no longer operates in Harlow and the nearest one I think is Edmonton , which makes it impossible .
9 A broad terrace ran round it with tufts of herbs growing on it and broken steps leading down on to the ruins of a lawn .
10 Ellen , who was utterly delighted with her achievement , followed him to spray the churning mess over his hair , then down on to the decks of Dream Baby as Sweetman jumped panic-stricken from our gunwale .
11 It you are constantly down in the dumps over the price of fleecewear then this may be the answer to your prayers .
12 He even managed to compliment Dawn Allenby on the silk headscarf , printed all over with the heads of Scottie dogs , which she wore twisted into a turban about her dark hair .
13 I crossed the gravel and started idly off through the trees to the east .
14 Huy looked thoughtfully out through the curtains of the litter at the night sky , bright in the silence with the light of a million stars .
15 And gives movement to the arms of the scissors and so back through the sieves to the chariot and the moulds .
16 In business it is not uncommon for a seller ( X ) to sell large quantities of a commodity to a buyer ( Y Ltd. ) in the knowledge that Y Ltd. will be able to pay for them only out of the proceeds of re-selling them .
17 This presumption can be rebutted by any words indicating that the preferential dividend for a year is to be payable only out of the profits of that year .
18 They are ‘ normal events ’ , arising almost naturally out of the circumstances of the employment relationship itself : ‘ A wildcat can break out in perfectly normal conditions , and the structure of the relations between employers , trade unions , governments and workers guarantees that some strikes will grow from small beginnings into mighty struggles ’ ( p.241 ) .
19 Shrugging , he slipped Blake 's identification into his pocket , and tossed the wallet carelessly back into the bushes beside the corpse .
20 Powerful , yet emotive , and sometimes melodramatic , The Power of One goes all out for the heartstrings with the weight of justice and the inevitability of history on its side .
21 The sun was high and bright as he dropped gently out of the hills towards the vale , faintly misted with vapour , and saw in the far distance before him the mole-hill of Ruthyn , hunched and veiled in the smoke of its house-fires , a delicate blue flower in the sparkling folded green , with the giant hogback of Moel Famau towering beyond .
22 There are many tales of naturalists who have gone to some place in search of a rare species , only to find that a member of that very species floats down out of the trees on gentle wings to besport itself before his amazed eyes , or appear in whatever appropriate manner to his appreciative gaze .
23 When by 1292 John of York had become too old and infirm to perform the duties of his Forest office , Edward I granted him a pension of ‘ three pence daily out of the issues of the forest , at the hands of the Justice of the Forest north of Trent , and six cartloads of firewood in the said forest by view and delivery of the foresters there ’ .
24 Our piloting suggests that there is very little information here which could not be filled in out of the heads of appropriate teachers on these courses , so filling in the questionnaire should not cost a great deal of time for each person .
25 This music , incidentally , was a vital influence in British and American bourgeois domestic song , an influence which can in fact be traced right through to the years after the First World War , in such singers as Al Jolson .
26 A wide range of information has been supplied , ranging from details about local walks right through to the opportunities for work in rural areas .
27 Always he made her uneasy , as if he could see right through to the deeps of her scheming soul .
28 They often ran away on to the moors in the morning and stayed out all day , just to make Hindley angry .
29 Yesterday he endorsed his doubles standing when he and his partner Jim Grabb , already through to the semi-finals of the Nabisco Masters doubles championship at the Royal Albert Hall , finished their round-robin group matches unbeaten when they defeated the Australians Mark Kratzmann and Darren Cahill 7-6 , 6-1 , 6-4 .
30 Lyons I was poorly attended : Lyons II ( May and July 1274 ) , though not up to the numbers of Lateran IV , had a wide spread of members .
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