Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the [num ord] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This one is useful for moving from the 5th position down to the 2nd position in A minor . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Darlington choir the Carol Andrews Singers have won the adult section of the BBC Sainsbury Choir of the Year Contest at the Tyne Theatre , in Newcastle and go through to the next stage in Manchester this October . |
| 5 | The umpires conferred , then , like Tweedledum and Tweedledee in their striped shirts , cantered over to the third man in the stands , who 'd been gazing at Mrs Sherwood at the time and missed the incident altogether , and who now waved his down-turned palms back and forth to indicate no foul . |
| 6 | Alice went up to the second floor in the lift , let herself into the flat and read , for the ninth or tenth time , the letter she had left for Mike . |
| 7 | It was , however , after Palace had acquired Cliff Holton and Dickie Dowsett that we saw Allen at his vintage best , spraying the passes and plying the crosses from which those big fellows scored the goals which first of all kept us in Division Three , and then took us up to the 2nd Division in 1963–64 . |
| 8 | On Sunday , for the first time since the Gulf war , Iraq flew combat aircraft up to the 36th parallel in violation of UN resolutions . |
| 9 | And as they came towards the end of the day he had to do some quick thinking to find out whether he 'd have to keep the men working right up to the last minute in order to get the stint , of three-quarter of an acre 's ploughing for each man , finished . |
| 10 | Lisa 's fists were clenched tightly at her sides as she rode up to the fourth floor in the silent lift . |
| 11 | Odd , that , Mike thought as he went up to the third floor in the rattling old lift . |
| 12 | The irony that Charlton finally got back to the First Division in 1986 , the year their exile from The Valley began , is n't lost on Ufton . |
| 13 | Mark Bright joined the Palace from Leicester City in November 1986 in a £75,000 deal and it was the goals from this cultured striker , along with those from partner Ian Wright , which took the Palace back to the 1st Division in 1989 , while also helping to make the twosome Palace 's top scorers in the League 's higher divisions , as well as one of the most prolific striking partnerships in the country at that time . |
| 14 | Man is a god in ruins , thought Emerson , and perhaps at the end of the twentieth century much the same could be said of his world , a still beautiful but ravaged paradise which , regardless of the tenets of sustainable development will not be passed on to the next century in better or even the same condition , in fact , almost certainly in worse condition as a result of meeting the needs of another billion or so people . |
| 15 | After the passage quoted just above concerning the esteem in which Molla Fenari was held and his place in the state , and before passing on to the next event in his life , namely his going on the pilgrimage in 822 ( 8 Dhu " l-Hijja = 26 December 1419 ) , Ibn Hajar writes that Molla Fenari became widely known for his erudition and that he was both pious and abundant in culture and merit " except that he was censured for [ espousing ] the sect of Ibn al- " Arabi and for the fact that he taught the and affirmed it " : he goes on to say that Molla Fenari , on the advice of friends , abjured mention of the subject in Egypt . |
| 16 | Also , I learned to appreciate that as a critic you say what you have to say and go on to the next thing in LA you never go on to the next thing . ’ |