Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned right into Caldecott Road , left into Howard 's Avenue , right on to Mainwaring Road and up the wide thoroughfare that led to Wimbledon Hill . |
| 2 | She is infatuated with a handsome police chief , goes rather grimly to bed with him in the time he can spare from gambling sessions , and then kills herself . |
| 3 | I could not bear to see him suffer and so I threw myself wholeheartedly on to Nonni 's side , arguing passionately that my aunts ' lack of interest in day-to-day matters was a boring affectation ; that Nonni was much more ‘ real ’ and ‘ closer to life ’ . |
| 4 | The child struggled gamely on to page two but Seemed to suspect that , after a page turn of this quality , anything else was liable to be an anti-climax . |
| 5 | The sun , incandescent orange , dropped slowly on to pier 56 and made the buttes of mid-town Manhattan shine like fool 's gold . |
| 6 | Bawiti was a village of crooked streets and blank-walled houses which faced inward on to courtyards . |
| 7 | England 's purpose-built attack was carrying out its duties to the letter , right down to Munton 's strike soon after his delayed introduction . |
| 8 | Performance indicators quickly became used as a diagnostic tool to " inform " the accountability reviews which in turn developed " from departmental monitoring of broad strategies to deep monitoring of short-term operational plans and of control systems stretching right down to unit level " ( Harrison et al. |
| 9 | Even Gollum , though seen by the elves , vanishes ‘ down the Silverlode southward ’ , i.e. on the far bank , and according to Aragorn has followed the Fellowship only ‘ right down to Nimrodel ’ . |
| 10 | They would n't , the miners hardly got anything and there used to be soup kitchens for us and er when it first started in nineteen twenty six and er I was pregnant with my second one and I used to walk right down to Pit with a lace , great big lace basket , they would n't let the men fetch the coal and we had to push the coal from there right to the , oh they 've no idea love , no idea . |
| 11 | It believes that unless the final COSE specification is very tight , and goes right down to things like icons and bars , then there is certain to be a wide variety of very different COSE interfaces on the market . |
| 12 | It believes that unless the final COSE specification is very tight , and goes right down to things such as icons and bars , then there is certain to be a wide variety of very different COSE interfaces on the market . |
| 13 | An exact replica of one of them is being shipped to Armenia , right down to blackboards and chalk , but it 's taken top level agreement between Mr Gorbachev and Mrs Thatcher to make it happen . |
| 14 | From desk bods right down to people in the field . |
| 15 | They get right down to business . |
| 16 | Church had followed his Albatros right down to ground level . |
| 17 | It needs to make access top information simple , right down to desktop level . |
| 18 | Skinhead tastes are ‘ right down to earth ’ . |
| 19 | Then a few drops of water fell on the side and fell right down to earth . |
| 20 | It gives an evocative glimpse of a winter landscape : ‘ In those days we travelled on push-bikes and the rampart right along to Ballinary was high and soft . |
| 21 | Heading east from Poole in Dorset right along to Dover in Kent there are sights to see and bargain breaks waiting to be snapped up . |
| 22 | There would then follow a quantity of directives relating most especially to handicrafts — knitting , crocheting , macramé — skills Fru Møller had studiously avoided , let alone perfected . |
| 23 | When last heard of Uncle Charles had been keeping a Malaysian girl less than half his.age in a Vancouver penthouse but George managed to recall some less interesting small-talk and like winged seeds the conversation spiralled delicately down to business . |
| 24 | Aware that the dress had a fey , other-worldish air that was light-years away from her own rather down to earth personality , Laura gave a nervous shrug of her shoulders . |
| 25 | The oxidation of carbohydrates requires the presence of an electron transport system which in most nematodes can operate aerobically down to oxygen tensions of 5.0 mm Hg or less . |
| 26 | This applies most obviously to inheritance , but also the law has been used to regulate financial support in families in a different way , namely through the poor Law which has applied to many more people than ever have been affected by inheritance . |
| 27 | The same applies to many other churchmen of the age , in England most obviously to Bishop Ethelwold of Winchester . |
| 28 | The fact that it is at least possible that Molla Yegan and Fahreddin Acemi held office contemporaneously for part of their respective appointments is of some help in trying to establish the identity of de la Broquière 's " grand caliph " ; for although Molla Yegan should have been Mufti in 1433 if his Muftilik and that of Fahreddin Acemi are viewed as successive rather than contemporaneous , de la Broquière 's statement applies rather better to Fahreddin Acemi than to Molla Yegan for several reasons . |
| 29 | She knew now , consciously at last and with absolute clarity , why she had always reacted so intensely to Luke Scott . |
| 30 | This is the force which I am applying so relentlessly to Daniel Miller , this is the power he is trying to escape on his bumpy journey into the winter woodlands . |