Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] to the [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 Move down on to the second page then .
10 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 .
11 So up to the third bay ; all the area at the western end up to the gangway was devoted to Tilt Van repairs under chargehand W. Hyde ( Ponnie ) .
12 Manorial courts continued to meet regularly throughout the early-modern period and in many places the quality of record-keeping remained high right through to the eighteenth century and sometimes beyond .
13 ‘ If something was a loss , he was n't really concerned with that ; somebody else could clear that up — he was already on to the next thing .
14 This ‘ lobon-gur ’ solution ( LGS ) was prepared by taking ‘ half a seer ’ of tube well or boiled water and adding to it one three-finger pinch of ‘ lobon ’ ( exactly up to the first crease of the index finger ) and two four-finger scoops of ‘ gur ’ , then stirring well .
15 Heart attack victim Jeff , 72 , planned his send off down to the last detail .
16 I think we outnumbered their support here , it was it gave the players a great lift , it was tremendous erm all credit to them erm we will drag even more along to the next game .
17 Six years of excavation at Qaryat al-Fau , directed by A. R. al-Ansary and sponsored by the University of Riyadh , have yielded detailed evidence for a large settlement covering 2 sq.km , inhabited from the second century BC through to the fifth century AD .
18 The history of this property dates way back to the 13th century , but it was in the 19th century , that a nobleman came here and , for his wife , rebuilt the castle on the 13th century ruins .
19 It was the end of the first stage of a conflict which was to rumble on up to the Second World War .
20 Instead of getting out at her own floor she went on up to the fourth floor , and stood in front of Matthew Prescott 's front door .
21 There are three staircases in the house , including a great one of oak which leads right up to the second floor , where the rooms are spacious — not designed for servants — and the views stretch to the Long Mynd .
22 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 .
23 If you look at the people who went in for the Olympic Games , right up to the Second World War , erm you would call them amateurs .
24 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 .
25 Right up to the nineteenth century the winegrowers of Anjou and Touraine would refer to their best wines as " vins pour la mer " , the wines which were going to be taken down to the sea via Nantes .
26 We know more about Milton , his personal concerns and his literary plans than we do about any other poet of his time , and indeed it may be that we have to come right up to the nineteenth century before we learn so much about the inner life of any poet .
27 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 ] .
28 At school , you start off , you integrate with everybody right up to the third year so that , in the third year or the fourth year , your friends or who you know as friends , they might call you a ‘ black bastard ’ .
29 straight up the erm by the custom bridge , right up to the next island round there , round the island and back down again
30 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 .
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