Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the first [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was very lethargic but I just put it down to the first months of my pregnancy . |
| 2 | us through to the first week of September . |
| 3 | Harold , through to the first quarter-final of his professional career , said : ‘ This is obviously my best ever win , and while Stephen did n't play well I like to think it was something to do with the way I played . ’ |
| 4 | They 've won their way through to the first round of the FA Cup where they 'll be away to West Bromwich Albion . |
| 5 | The garden 's main crops of apples and pears are gathered in late September and through to the first weeks of October . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | students of bones , a jocose reference back to the first description of Mrs Podsnap ( OMF i 2 ) as a ‘ fine woman for Professor Owen , quantity of bone , neck and nostrils like a rocking horse … |
| 9 | Under hypnosis she was taken back to the first day of her stay in hospital — the day before the operation itself . |
| 10 | First the next coupon payment is added to ( 8.8 ) and then the whole sum is discounted back to the first day of the delivery month . |
| 11 | We have to look back to the first quarter of 1988 to see a time when construction output was so low . |
| 12 | We have to go back to the first quarter of 1986 to see such a low figure for construction output per person in the past decade . |
| 13 | ‘ Josephinism ’ in religious matters , again , it is now clear , had behind it a long tradition extending back to the first years of the century . |
| 14 | Move the cursor to a blank line or on to the first character of the text to follow the blank lines |
| 15 | ‘ And now , on to the first part of our programme . ’ |
| 16 | I sat unmoving , adding up all the factors over and over , getting the same answer , while Posi took us up into Highlight and on to the first Netline of our route . |
| 17 | Sorry , this is a very long way of getting around to the first crop of reviews of Philip Larkin : A Writer 's Life by Andrew Motion ( Faber ) . |