Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the [num ord] [noun] [prep] " 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 | This one is useful for moving from the 5th position down to the 2nd position in A minor . |
| 3 | ‘ I was very lethargic but I just put it down to the first months of my pregnancy . |
| 4 | Then we had to ski down to the next lot of lifts which went even higher and when we had mastered that we got on a chairlift which took us right to the top . |
| 5 | A sky-blue bus lumbered past , then they shot out on to the curving mountain road behind it , and a second later overtook it with a roar that must have terrified the already nervous passengers , as the buses always drove maniacally around these bends , desperate to stick to their schedule right down to the last fraction of a second . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After that I replaced everything that may have become contaminated with metal toxins , down to the last grain of sand . |
| 8 | They were down to the last roll of flowered wrapping paper– The shop had the look of a battlefield the morning after . |
| 9 | Everything was down to the last detail on this loco , including the small ladder which was originally attached to the ‘ A ’ end of the engine . |
| 10 | If they were down to the last dregs of their confidence after their Hillsborough defeat it did not show and it took Kelly 's superb reflexes to deny Newell after only three minutes . |
| 11 | Volkov scoured the flat clean of their presence , down to the last crumb in the kitchen cupboard and a twist of make-up-stained tissue in the waste basket . |
| 12 | If Kinsella were to go on a binge , he would drink his way down to the last penny of whatever money is available , irrespective of who it belongs to . ’ |
| 13 | That is why Lloyd 's now needs to question its hallowed notion of unlimited liability , which makes names liable down to the last button on their boxer shorts . |
| 14 | The seat backs and seats passed along benches fitted with rollers in the centre , so that each man performed his own operation and then passed the back or seat along to the next man in the line . |
| 15 | I 've brought him , I 've brought him at half five , because I was at the bus stop , leaning on the lamp-post and it was about twenty five past , and then he did n't come along to the next stop by and it got to twenty five |
| 16 | She had moved across the courtyard , flagstone by flagstone , to cheat the shadow ; now she was boxed in to the last corner of light . |
| 17 | It 's , it 's no good we going tomorrow or Howard 'll be coming turn out late shift be coming out you know , might as well get ready and going out , now I 've had summat to eat , it 's only quarter to Really we 're starting into the second leaves , the frosts through to the second set of leaves these , that 's gon na be better plant and here when the wind blows |
| 18 | Dundela made it through to the second round with a 4– win over Armoy at the weekend , but they needed extra-time to do it . |
| 19 | Crosby-born Shirli-Ann Siddall put up a courageous fight against third seed Mary Joe Fernandez , but the French Open finalist edged through to the second round with a 6–4 7–5 victory . |
| 20 | PRESTWICK 's David Gourlay , jun , the first Scot in action in yesterday 's opening day of the £140,000 Midland Bank World Indoor Championship , survived an off-green setback before moving through to the second round with a three sets to one win over past UK champion Stephen Rees . |
| 21 | Only two candidates ( Dominique Voynet in the Jura and Christine Barthet in Haut-Rhin ) managed to get through to the second round on March 28 but neither was then elected . |
| 22 | The government accepted indicative bids for BTG and informed the consortia involved in the bidding which of them had got through to the second round at the end of January . |
| 23 | The Mongolian Party of Free Labour ( MPFL ) and the Mongolian Party of Greens ( MPG ) failed to get any candidates through to the second round of voting . |
| 24 | At least 12 other women candidates went through to the second round of voting . |
| 25 | Football , and Oxford United are through to the second round of the Coca-Cola cup . |
| 26 | It 's 45 years since Cheltenham Town made it through to the second round of the cup . |
| 27 | IRVINE 's Jim Muir and Hugh Duff , the former Auchinleck man who is now living south of the Border and lining up in England 's colours , won through to the second round of the Midland Bank World Indoor Championship in Preston yesterday as former winners Terry Sullivan and David Bryant tumbled out of the title race . |
| 28 | Less than a dozen of the official green candidates are now expected even to make it through to the second round of voting next Sunday . |
| 29 | NICK Jones , from the Wirral , progressed through to the second round of the 1992 Volkswagen Nationals Tennis Championships men 's singles event at the Telford Raquets Centre in Shropshire . |
| 30 | ‘ Once you start saving yourselves for big games and ducking out of tackles , you get into the wrong frame of mind and that is very dangerous , ’ warned Howard , who is hoping to steer his side through to the second round of the FA Cup for the first time for 17 years . |