Example sentences of "right [adv prt] [prep] 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 | Right down from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the 1960s one can indeed construct a counter-grandadology to Pearson 's ‘ history of respectable fears ’ . |
| 10 | If this happens , it is usually better to leave things for that year , and to take them right down after the next flowering . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ] . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | straight up the erm by the custom bridge , right up to the next island round there , round the island and back down again |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Truman 's victory in 1948 , like that of Edward Heath in the UK election of 1970 , and now John Major in 1992 , confounded the opinion pollsters , who , right up to the last minute , were predicting a different result . |
| 23 | I never leave a wash until it is dry , as unwanted effects can occur right up to the last minute . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Both sides fought intensive and costly campaigns and most opinion polls showed the FSLN well ahead of the UNO right up to the last minute . |
| 26 | Scribbling changes in the margin of his text right up to the last minute , Mr Clinton insisted the burden of his new taxes were spread fairly across American society . |
| 27 | Work is still going on in fitting out a new store right up to the last minute . |
| 28 | erm We had a big screen and the atmosphere was absolutely tremendous — right up to the last minute as you said , with three points in it , it was very tense . |
| 29 | The normal business life of the town continued right up to the last moment and in some houses food was laid out for meals that were never eaten . |
| 30 | Do you know she said she was n't coming to our wedding right up to the last moment , and when she did consent to come she behaved as if all the guests on my side were mud beneath her feet , though our family 's always been very well thought of around here , as I 'm sure you know , and my father could have bought her up a hundred times and not noticed the difference , and what was her father in New Zealand I wonder , some sheep dipper or other I would n't mind betting — you know the type that went to the colonies then — or perhaps he was a convict ! ’ |