Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv prt] to the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ There are n't enough of them and they 're just not up to the standards women want .
2 And they 'll have tanks for the sewage , which now drops straight down on to the tracks , of course . ’
3 erm A loyal friend , as well as an extremely amusing one , he seems to me to have lived remarkably well up to the standards that he set himself .
4 THE FFESTINIOG Railway wants to see the scenic Welsh Highland Railway ( WHR ) reopened in its entirely from Porthmadog across Snowdonia to Dinas and with an entirely new section running from there right up to the walls of Caernarfon Castle .
5 they want their evening entertainment , then they go off down , then on down to the clubs .
6 Ellen , who was utterly delighted with her achievement , followed him to spray the churning mess over his hair , then down on to the decks of Dream Baby as Sweetman jumped panic-stricken from our gunwale .
7 At Batavia , the pall of ash took a fair while to arrive ; in the early morning of the twenty-seventh , the sky was clear , but by 10.15 it had become lurid and yellowish as the ash spread across the sky ; by 10.30 the first fine ash was actually sifting softly down on to the streets .
8 Above all , local educational standards were as yet not up to the demands put upon them by ‘ the Centre ’ .
9 He revels in the memory of it , making it froth and lather all round the alleys and back-yards of youth very nearly up to the roof-tops .
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