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

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1 From a spectator 's gallery , visitors can watch the production of the famous cheese step by step , from the delivery of the milk right through to the ripening of whole cheeses in the cellar .
2 He intended to build terraces of houses right up to the Head but only the new Park Road was slowly completed , chiefly because of the steep hill .
3 It may in part be a function of the teacher 's own practices , and when this is so an analysis of his or her use of time , from the broad organizational strategies right down to the minutiae of moment-to-moment interactions with the children , could help both in creating more time and in making for a more effective and efficient context for learning .
4 References to the delírio , the madness of hunger , can be found as early as the sixteenth century in the writings of Portuguese navigators , and it is a recurring theme in Brazilian literature right up to the present day .
5 Will be passed on , but in this instance they all need to be shown how to work it , yes , mhm , so that concerned me a little bit , apparently because they were holding the mike right up to their mouth and it was distorting terribly what 's going on up there
6 Professor Ienaga pledged to fight the case right through to the Supreme Court .
7 Green Believers are now pressing the priests of rich-world industry to scan supply chains right down to their poor-world beginnings .
8 Manufacturing industry was still in recession right up to the end of 1992 , and both manufacturing and total industrial output fell last year for the third year in a row , according to the Central Statistical Office 's figures yesterday .
9 This RYA recognised school offers a variety of sailing courses catering for the absolute beginner right up to the most advanced sailor .
10 pull the spent kicking foot right back to the body before setting it down .
11 From the bold opening words , in which Christian appears with his Bible in his hand and his great burden on his back , crying , ‘ What shall I do ’ , readers of all denominations and cultures have been entranced by the story right through to the end , when Mr Valiant-for-Truth gives his sword ‘ to him that shall succeed me … and as he went , he said , ‘ Death where is thy sting ? ’ and as he went down deeper , he said , ‘ Grave where is thy victory ? ’
12 The ongoing development is continued in the story right up to the present day and it is very interesting to see the numerous designs which have been tried , tested and put into operation .
13 Naturally , therefore , you will want to tilt the camcorder right up to the head , but if the shot now includes a large area of bright sky in the background , the auto-iris will reduce the exposure and George 's head will become a featureless silhouette .
14 Discourse can be anything from a grunt or single expletive , through short conversations and scribbled notes right up to Tolstoy 's novel , War and Peace , or a lengthy legal case .
15 But er I can remember being in Evay and a funeral there and to me it was very strange because they carried the coffin from the kirk right down to the kirkyard at the pier .
16 In a special feature , Graham also flicks through the seed catalogue from Victorian times right through to the present day and comes up with some very interesting results .
17 From the filament in the fog lamps right down to the washers on the wipers .
18 " She 's forgetful and sometimes a little difficult , but she still does the garden and she did all the cooking right up to your aunt 's death . "
19 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 .
20 Yet the government 's Transport and Road Research Laboratory has tested roads only up to 20 million standard axles .
21 As directors of horror movies know so well , there is no better way to scare their audience than to have some unidentified object flash suddenly on to the screen , very close to the hero 's face .
22 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 .
23 For the malting season was complementary to the farming season : as soon as the corn harvest was over the malting began , and it went on right through the winter and early spring right up to the eve of the haysel .
24 They could even have suspected me had they not found the two sets of footprints in the soft snow right up to the very hedge where Martin was hiding .
25 If we quarrel if we have a good punch up and all that between us and them that would suit the other side right down to the ground .
26 Pip struggling to become a gentleman and find mutual love with Estella takes him through his early teens when he left his apprenticeship right through to his middle-age where the next major change takes place .
27 Though The Lancet and the BMJ fought a rearguard action right up to the moment of final repeal , it was obvious that the sanitary principle had been successfully challenged by moralists .
28 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 ! ’
29 They lowered their voices right down to the floor .
30 ‘ I 'm zapping through old classics from de Sade and Fanny Hill right through to William Burroughs and Henry Miller — all the dirty books one has heard of but never read .
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