Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no way out of the Upper Kirk other than scrambling to the left or right on to the higher ground . |
| 2 | I 'm on on about the same subject . |
| 3 | Karelius ' mare , after a whole day on her feet , stumbled gamely on across the freezing moorland towards Lake Satschen , and escape to the south . |
| 4 | Right down past the big dole office in town , up that way , and then that way , instead of coming through Green . |
| 5 | In loving detail , right down to the rancid smell of burnt onions from hamburger vans , Reid describes three days spent at the races with his charmingly unsavoury friends A. J. Kincaid , John Moynahan and the Major . |
| 6 | Her life seemed to be planned by Miss Havisham right down to the smallest detail . |
| 7 | Despite the salutary scepticism of David Hume this scholastic convention has survived right down to the present day and is perhaps best explained by saying that when intellectuals who have the mental habits of university professors are invited to specify the distinguishing criteria of human beings they end up by producing a self-image of themselves . |
| 8 | There were countless small libraries that ran on into the 1930s and even later , right down to the small cornershop lending libraries of the kind George Orwell worked in ( it is strange how , when you get down to the basic phenomena of literacy in England , he keeps cropping up ) . |
| 9 | This is not entirely surprising because Gordon looks just like their lead singer ( whose name escapes me right now ) , right down to the ginger mop and lack of height . |
| 10 | It was a relic from the great days of the docks , and had kept the feel of a sailors ' and a stevedores ' drinking hole , right down to the bare brick walls and flagstones . |
| 11 | Today 's formulas are far more sophisticated , right down to the perfect brush design . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | Obviously it 's losing market share price competition impinging right down to the bottom line left right and centre . |
| 14 | The sensation seemed to spread right down to the very pit of her stomach . |
| 15 | By chance ( chance again ! ) she had chosen the one thing that would reach , spinning down through all that froth of excited sentiment , right down to the very core of Sarah 's being : the memory of Tom . |
| 16 | Trees and bushes grew right down to the very edge of it . |
| 17 | The words spoke truth ; shivered up and down inside her , earthing right down to the OK Corral . |
| 18 | This implies that capital charges will go right down to the departmental level in the budgetary control system . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In fact most of the story is written , the action scenes carefully planned … right down to the last detail |
| 25 | Went no , no , it 's not , it 's not peach melba , right down to the last detail |
| 26 | Its colour void led to clean , efficient lines which had an appeal that passed right down to the high street . |
| 27 | A TRIUMPHANT trompe-l'oeil ; fanatically detailed ( right down to the grainy film stock ) reconstruction of events in the Algerian war of independence from the French during 1954 –'57); that looks uncannily like documentary reality . |
| 28 | Dogs have been bred for many different tasks , from the massive guard dogs and fighting dogs right down to the little toy dogs and lap-dogs . |
| 29 | There is good evidence that the infall occurs right down into the central parsec , but at a much smaller rate than the overall mass inflow rate , suggesting that any accretion onto a central black hole is episodic . |
| 30 | I am glad now she did lose her budgie — and find it — because if she had n't she would n't have seen my puppy trapped right down in the hollow tree . |